The Grantham Research Institute publishes its own Working Paper series, aimed at stimulating discussion among researchers across a wide range of academic disciplines. The Institute also produces policy publications and consultation responses, to inform decision-makers in the UK and internationally. Staff from the Institute regularly publish in leading academic journals and contribute to a broad range of reports and books.
CCUS is necessary for the UK to reach its net-zero goals. This report assesses economic and potential employment opportunities and implications for the skills needed, as well as transferable strengths and capabilities from other sectors and barriers and enablers for CCUS growth in the UK. Read more
In the lead up to the COP26 in Glasgow this article outlines the challenge of ensuring that countries meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement at a time of economic slowdown triggered by COVID-19. Read more
This study finds that more than 60% of countries that adopted a national adaptation plan (NAP) are not tracking its implementation. Read more
Through a comparative case study of two processes that ran in the UK in 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change), this paper investigates how far citizen assemblies and juries are increasing citizen engagement on climate change and creating more citizen-centred climate policymaking. Read more
Using interview data with experts working on climate emergency declarations research across the UK, the authors of this paper critically discusses four themes that have underpinned and catalysed the changing geographies of civil-state relationships within the climate emergency and what this may mean for future global climate governance. Read more
In four video stories, this paper explores the impact of varying the type of protagonist species (Elephant and WildDog) and content about the role of humans in causing wildlife loss (Elephant + HumanAction and WildDog + HumanAction) using Facebook A/B split tests. Read more
The authors of this paper assess the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information intended to support climate adaptation decision-making. They use the UK Climate Projections 2018 as an example of such information. Read more
This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. The authors focus on radon and find that as published risk levels in England show an increase, property prices decrease. Read more
Using a nationally representative sample of 1052 respondents from the UK, the authors of this paper systematically tested the associations between the experimental trust game and a range of popular self-reported measures for trust, such as the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for self-reported trust. Read more
This paper shows that economic models of climate change produce climate dynamics inconsistent with current climate science models. Read more
