Conference presentation or paper by Lucie Xia on 1 Dec 2022
This report for the Europe-China Forum highlights the importance of a renewed EU-China partnership to global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Working paper by Ara Jo on 12 Jun 2018
This paper uses data on the compliance of installations regulated under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to investigate how the levels of trust in a country affect the compliance of firms with regulations on climate change. read more »
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Ara Jo on 27 Mar 2018
This paper finds that the culture of cooperation sustained by trust within a country positively affects international cooperative behaviour, showing that an increase in trust between citizens results in larger cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. read more »
Policy publication by Nicholas Stern, Isabella Neuweg, Patrick Curran on 7 Aug 2017
A previous draft of this report was published as a background paper submission to the China Development Forum 2017. An 8-page summary policy brief is also available. Headline issue China … read more »
Policy publication by Nicholas Stern, Isabella Neuweg, Patrick Curran on 18 Jul 2017
China is taking an active leadership role in a new global agenda that has sustainable infrastructure at its heart – an agenda that is starting to address the … read more »
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Simon Levin, Alessandro Tavoni on 18 Jan 2017
This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the scope for cooperation in the climate commons and on the effectiveness of possible interventions to spur it. Given the global public … read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Doruk İriş on 20 May 2016
We live in a world characterized by discontinuities, where thresholds for abrupt and irreversible change are omnipresent, both in economic and ecological dynamics. Such thresholds, often referred to as tipping … read more »
Working paper by Robert Falkner on 2 Jul 2015
This paper by Rober Falkner explores the the potential role that climate clubs might play in promoting global climate action. read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Jungmin Lee, Doruk İriş on 20 Mar 2015
The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. read more »
Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues on 13 Jan 2015
Cooperation between countries is required to overcome major societal problems, such as climate change. However, rational logic dictates that individual countries are incentivised not to act, instead preferring to … read more »
