Publications
A practitioner’s guide to a low-carbon economy: lessons from the UK
This paper identifies practical lessons for policy makers that seek to decarbonise their economies, drawing primarily on the UK experience. There are five main conclusions. First, decarbonisation needs a … read more »
Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty
The paper analyses the implications of landowners’ option values in land allocation and derives policy recommendations for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … read more »
Trends in income and price elasticities of transport demand (1850-2010)
Fouquet, R. 2012. Energy Policy 50 (Special Issue on Past and Prospective Energy Transitions), pp.62-71.
Embarking on the low carbon journey: National Mitigation Actions as green growth vehicles in developing nations
KPMG, 2011. – External link to download report (PDF)
High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change
To what extent does economic analysis of climate change depend on low-probability, high-impact events? This question has received a great deal of attention lately, with the contention increasingly made … read more »
Knock, knock, knocking on closed doors: exploring the diffuse ideal of the collaborative research relationship
The collaborative research relationship is a diffuse ideal amongst geographers conducting qualitative research with other organisations. The language of working ‘with’ other organisations is widely used in academic publishing … read more »
Delivering climate finance: principles and practice for funding the Fund
Mattia Romani and Nicholas Stern Read the release about this paper.
Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring ‘permanence’ in carbon sequestration
Opportunistic behaviour due to imperfect contract enforcement is a risk in many economic transactions. In this paper, an enforcement-proof incentive contract is developed in which a buyer demands a … read more »
Building effective and sustainable risk transfer initiatives in low- and middle-income economies: what can we learn from existing insurance schemes?
Negotiators for Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are exploring if and how risk transfer solutions could enhance adaptation efforts in those countries that are … read more »
The case for carbon pricing
Carbon pricing, whether through emissions trading or taxes which discourage high-carbon behaviour, should be a fundamental pillar of policies designed to mitigate climate change. Nevertheless, successful implementation of pricing schemes … read more »
