What makes climate change a populist issue?
Working paper by Jonathan White on 14 Sep 2023
This working paper examines the potential of climate change to be drawn into populist politics.
Working paper by Jonathan White on 14 Sep 2023
This working paper examines the potential of climate change to be drawn into populist politics.
Working paper by Geoffrey Heal, Antony Millner on 26 Sep 2017
When it comes to climate change and biodiversity loss, standard decision-making tools may no longer capture important aspects of our uncertainty preferences. Richer models of decision-making, which allow us to express lack of confidence in our information, may be more desirable. read more »
Working paper by Adrian Fenton, Anne Tallontire, Jouni Paavola on 30 Mar 2017
This paper explores how microfinance institutions are affected by and are responding to flooding, by examining a case study of Satkhira District in Southwest Bangladesh. The authors develop a framework for understanding how microfinance institutions can reduce their vulnerability to climate risks and use the framework to empirically assess local-level practices, drawing from interviews with […]
Working paper by François Cohen, Matthieu Glachant, Magnus Söderberg on 1 Feb 2017
Using household-level data from the American Housing Survey, this paper assesses the cost of adapting housing to temperature increases. The authors account for both energy use adjustments and capital adjustments … read more »
Working paper by Sam Fankhauser, Nicholas Stern on 17 Oct 2016
The past three decades have seen an unprecedented increase in world living standards and a fall in poverty across many fundamental dimensions. Increased confidence in what was possible together with … read more »