Tim Laing
Tim worked as a postdoctoral research assistant with Luca Taschini and Charles Palmer on the NORAD funded project, ‘Developing an options market and complementary financial structures to mobilise private capital for REDD+ and manage climate policy risks’.
The project was conducted in collaboration with the Environmental Defence Fund and IIASA.
Tim moved on to become a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, CERMES at University of the West Indies.
Background
Tim previously completed his PhD at LSE. His research title was ‘Assessing the impact of institutional conditions upon programme design for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation’.
Tim has a BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Development Economics from the University of Sussex.
He has worked at the Environmental Protection Agency of Guyana as an ODI fellow and as a Research Assistant in the Electricity Policy Research Group in Cambridge.
Research interests
- Policy design for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation;
- Effect of institutional conditions on environmental policy design;
- Low-carbon development policy;
- Interactions of development and environmental policy.
Research
Research - 2016
Acre State in Brazil is at the forefront of efforts to institutionalize jurisdictional-scale policies that aim to reduce emissions from... Read more
Laing, Timothy, Taschini, Luca and Palmer, Charles (2016). In: Environmental Conservation Read more
International carbon offsetting can help reduce compliance costs in emissions trading schemes and at the same time support carbon mitigation... Read more
Research - 2015
This paper examines the impact of electoral cycles and the introduction of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) policy... Read more
REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), broadened to REDD+, has recently emerged as a potentially important component of... Read more
This paper examines the impact of electoral cycles and the introduction of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) policy... Read more
Research - 2014
As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO2 emissions, they turn to the European Union's experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. Read more
Research - 2013
Working Paper 110 Abstract National-level strategies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD), financed by international transfers, have begun to... Read more
Working Paper 106 Abstract As an increasing number of countries, regions, cities and states implement emission trading policies to limit... Read more
Policy
Policy - 2015
This report provides a short summary of assessment methodologies that have been used to evaluate different operational aspects and outcomes of existing trading schemes, a literature which to date draws primarily from the EU ETS experience. Read more
News
News - 2010
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