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.
The UK's net-zero commitment assumes the use of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies, but there is little understanding of how they might be funded and who will bear the cost. This study prepared for the National Infrastructure Commission analyses how the distribution of costs for funding these technologies impacts society across income deciles. Read more
This note from the Impact Investing Institute and the Grantham Research Institute outlines a practical and implementable framework for delivering the social co-benefits dimension of the UK’s green gilt, laying the foundations for further development in subsequent green giltissuances. Read more
There is considerable anxiety about the international impact of unilateral action on climate change, particularly around ‘carbon leakage’. Looking at the impact of national climate change policy and legislation over the past two decades, this paper finds no evidence it has increased international carbon leakage. Read more
This report sets out a framework of just transition expectations that investors can use in conducting due diligence and assessments of companies, engaging with portfolio holdings and allocating capital. The framework is based on international standards and emerging practice and is applied to five companies in the European electric utilities sector. Read more
West Africa exhibits decadal patterns in the behaviour of droughts and floods, creating challenges for effective water resources management. Proposed... Read more
This study explores how and to what extent tools to measure urban climate resilience can be or have been utilised by city-level actors to support their decision-making processes for building resilience. Read more
Increasing the uptake of behaviours that are not yet niche is crucial to the sustainable energy transition. The authors of this paper test a novel approach to foster the uptake of renewable energy tariffs among a large sample of households in England and Wales. Read more
The analysis in this paper indicates that electricity prices demonstrate downward rigidity and statistically significant upward adjustments for the utilities subject to revenue decoupling. Read more
This report presents the results of the first phase of the India Just Transition Finance Roadmap project, which involved scoping the landscape and highlighting priorities for further work to be presented ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). Read more
This report from Planet Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute sets out four steps Brazil could take to change direction, including issuing an innovative Deforestation-Linked Sovereign Bond tying interest payments to its success in reducing deforestation. Read more
