The authors of this paper develop a method to establish the value of temporary offset projects with a given risk of failure and show that this value is always positive. They find that to compensate for one tonne of fossil fuel emissions, 2 to 3 tonnes of carbon need to be stored in a forest if the project stops being additional after 50 years. Read more
Reducing global forest losses is essential to mitigate climate change and its associated social costs. Multiple market and non-market factors... Read more
The authors of this paper explore the factors shaping 9 conservation attitudes toward forest and wildlife protection among colonist farmers around an Amazonian deforestation frontier. Read more
To date, values are not widely acknowledged or discussed within physical climate science. Yet, effective management of values in physical... Read more
This section in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability synthesizes the state of knowledge on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of adaptation to climate change. Read more
Contributors to this paper discuss the implications of the post-Glasgow climate ‘pact’ for the continued relevance of evaluation. Read more
The authors of this paper study the question of how important it is to predict the distant future. Read more
Researchers have come up with several metrics, such as patent counts, to measure low-carbon innovation activity and evaluate the impact... Read more
The ERICI project at the Grantham Research Institute will work alongside the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) and in contact with the G7's InsuResilience to develop demand-led resilience metrics that can be used for evaluation of insurance schemes. Read more
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
