China could start to cut its consumption of coal by 2020
China’s consumption of coal could reach a peak by 2020, or even earlier, as part of its plans to pursue more sustainable economic growth, according to a new report published … read more »
Topic: International negotiations and agreements
On the provision of public goods with probabilistic and ambiguous thresholds
Many natural systems involve thresholds that, once triggered, imply irreversible damages for the users. Although the existence of such thresholds is undisputed, their location is highly uncertain. read more »
Russia Says 2C Climate Goal Shouldn’t Dictate Carbon Pledges
The Washington Post
The US and Action on Climate Change
Bowen, Alex, 2014. Chapter in: The Global Development of Policy Regimes to Combat Climate Change, World Scientific Publishing. Link to publisher
Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
We consider a two period model in which an incumbent political party chooses the level of a current policy variable unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in … read more »
Policy coherence and interplay between Zambia’s forest, energy, agricultural and climate change policies and multilateral environmental agreements
Felix Kalaba,Claire Quinn and Andrew Dougill. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.
US and China lift climate change hopes with new phase of talks
Financial Times
IPCC report under fire
Nature
UN climate change report on how to cut emissions
The Guardian
