Publications
On predicting climate under climate change
Can today’s global climate model ensembles characterize the 21st century climate in their own ‘model-worlds’? This question is at the heart of how we design and interpret climate model … read more »
Climate change policy UK
The Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) have published a policy paper, originally commissioned as a working paper … read more »
The Structure of Economic modelling of the potential impacts of climate change has grafted gross underestimation onto already narrow science models
Nicholas Stern, Journal of Economic Literature, September, 2013.
Hotelling rules: oscillatory versus quadratic trends in natural resource prices
A model is introduced for the description of natural resources price paths, which, in contrast to the existing literature, captures non-linear trends by means of a … read more »
An experimental investigation of the impacts of persuasion and information acquisition of non-use values for climate change adaptation
Focusing on the estimation of WTP for climate change adaptation projects in vulnerable areas around the world, this study explores the divergence between economic non-use values … read more »
Mapping the climate sceptical blogosphere
While mainstream scientific knowledge production has been extensively examined in the academic literature, comparatively little is known about alternative networks of scientific knowledge production. Online sources … read more »
Development aid and climate finance
This paper discusses the implications of climate change for official transfers from rich countries (the North) to poor countries (the South). The concern is no longer … read more »
A macroeconomic perspective on climate change mitigation: Meeting the financing challenge
– Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics (August 2014) (read article) Transitioning to a low-carbon economy will require significant investment to transform energy systems, alter the built … read more »
Non-identical quadruplets: four new estimates of the elasticity of marginal utility for the UK
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the value of the elasticity of marginal utility for the United Kingdom. This parameter is a key determinant of … read more »
Modeling climate mitigation and adaptation policies to predict their effectiveness: The limits of randomized controlled trials
Modeling climate mitigation and adaptation policies to predict their effectiveness read more »
