Publications
The management of multilateral negotiations: lessons from UN climate negotiations
The 2009 Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen, which aimed to deliver a first-ever comprehensive global climate deal, ended without agreement in part because of poor management … read more »
Is a Market Stability Reserve likely to improve the functioning of the EU ETS? Evidence from a model comparison exercise
Report explores what market and regulatory failures could inhibit the functioning of the EU ETS and result in deviations from the efficient abatement pathway. read more »
Green agricultural policies and poverty reduction
Since developing countries typically have large agricultural sectors, the implementation of green agricultural policies can play a key role in helping shift to low-carbon economies. However, the challenge … read more »
Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change on ‘ Fuelling the debate: Committee successes and future challenges ’
Outlines the main energy and climate change challenges in the UK over the next five-year term read more »
Submission to inquiry on ‘Environmental risks of fracking’ by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee
This is a submission by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and … read more »
How to price carbon in good times… and bad
Responsive cap-and-trade systems and carbon taxes can improve climate change policy by allowing higher greenhouse gas emissions during times of economic expansions and lower emissions during recessions. read more »
Taming the beasts of ‘burden-sharing’: an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges
Countries are now seeking to reach a new international agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. A key element of the international negotiations … read more »
Growth, climate and collaboration: towards agreement in Paris 2015
Paper explores 4 key elements on which an agreeement at the COP21 – Paris 2015 Climate Change talks could be based read more »
Bridging the REDD+ Finance Gap
Ruben Lubowski, Alexander Golub, Rowan Parkhouse and Luca Taschini (2014) Chapter in ‘IETA GHG Market Report 2014’. External link to report
Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change
Shifting our fossil-fuelled civilisation to clean modes of production and consumption requires deep transformations in our energy and economic systems read more »
