Publications
Non-economic losses in the context of the UNFCCC work programme on loss and damage
Sam Fankhauser, Simon Dietz and Phillip Gradwell
Policy indexes as tools for decision makers – the case of climate policy
The last two decades have witnessed an explosion in the publication of country indexes that measure and rank the relative national policy performances of governments. To illustrate the challenges … read more »
What’s sustainable supposed to mean? Financialisation as discursive construction, based on the example of banks’ sustainability reporting
Feist, M. and Fuchs, D. 2013. In: M. Heires and A. Nölke (eds.): Politische Ökonomie der Finanzialisierung [The political economy of financialisation]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 225–240. (peer-reviewed)
In praise of a green stimulus
Macroeconomic conditions make this a relatively favorable time to kick-start investments necessary to transition to a resource-efficient economy read more »
In praise of a green stimulus
Macroeconomic conditions make this a relatively favorable time to kick-start investments necessary to transition to a resource-efficient economy. There is no lack of private money, just a perceived lack of opportunity. Resource costs are low and the potential to crowd out alternative investment and employment is greatly reduced. It is often argued that the short-term macroeconomic merit of an investment, in terms of what constitutes a good economic stimulus, can be judged against established criteria. These include tests on whether an investment is timely, temporary, and targeted. Although these are important, the evidence presented here suggests that a more important criterion for a sustainable economic impact is the ability to generate private sector confidence in profitable and enduring new markets. The world is likely to transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy over this century and managing this transition has early pay-offs. Clear and credible green policies have the potential restore confidence and generate growth. Providing credible early incentives to invest in resource-efficiency could generate investment and growth in the long and the short run. read more »
Thinking Aloud Tackling Climate Change Can the cities lead?
With Philipp Rode Center for Urban Green Spaces Vol. 1 No. 4, January 2014
The GLOBE climate legislation study
A review of climate change legislation in 66 Countries Michal Nachmany, Sam Fankhauser, Terry Townshend, Murray Collins, Tucker Landesman, Adam Matthews, Carolina Pavese, Katharina Rietig, Philip Schleifer and Joana Setzer
Remarks on “Facing the climate change challenge in a global economy” by Lee Branstetter and William Pizer, in Feenstra and Taylor (eds)
Bowen, A. (2014): Globalization in an age of crisis – Multilateral economic cooperation in the twenty-first century, NBER, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN: 978 0 22603 075 3
Pollinator declines: Avoid pitfalls of consensus methods
Bateman, I., Agarwala, M., and T. Badura. (2014). Nature, 505(7482), 160-160.
Sectors under scrutiny: evaluation of indicators to assess the risk of carbon leakage in the UK and Germany
One of the central debates surrounding the design of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is the approach to address carbon leakage concerns. read more »
