Publications
“This time is different”: The prospects for an effective climate agreement in Paris 2015
COP21, to be held in Paris at the end of 2015, presents an important opportunity for governments to negotiate a new international climate agreement. A question of central importance to preparations for COP21 is: what sort of policy architecture is most likely to generate sufficiently ambitious action to reduce global emissions? read more »
How effective negotiation management promotes multilateral cooperation
The power of process in climate, trade, and biosafety negotiations read more »
The Economics of Steering the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
Presentations given at a three-day course ‘The economics of change: achieving better growth and a better climate’- part of a joint programme between LSE Enterprise in Spain and the Fundación … read more »
Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change on ‘Linking Emissions Trading Systems’
Paper looks at what are the main challenges to linking emissions trading systems and what are the consequences of failing to address them adequately. read more »
Steel Report: Carbon Control Post 2020 in Energy Intensive Industries
Study demonstrates how a portfolio of low-carbon opportunities exists which can modernize the steel industry and achieve climate benefits at the same time. The study concludes that the European steel industry has to be highly energy-efficient and innovative to secure its future and that low-carbon transformation offers such a perspective. read more »
Why is geoengineering so tempting?
Geoengineering can be de fined as the technologies that aim to deliberately alter geophysical mechanisms in order to alleviate the impacts of climate change. It has received increasing attention by economists … read more »
Handbook of Sustainable Development
This Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved. read more »
FP7 Entracte project
The second ENTRACTE newsletter reflects the contribution of the GRI/LSE research project for a functioning climate policy taking into account a careful design. It gives an overview about recent research … read more »
EU ETS, free allocations and activity level thresholds, the devil lies in the details
Energy intensive and trade exposed sectors receive a proportion of their allowances (EUAs) for the European Union emissions trading system (EU ETS) free of charge to prevent carbon … read more »
A UK dash for ‘smart’ gas
Presentation given at the 10th Academic Conference of the British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE): ‘Balancing Competing Energy Policy Goals’, held in Oxford in September 2014
