Providing additional finance for adaptation is a key element of the emerging international climate change framework. This paper discusses how... Read more
Publications
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.
Working Paper 16 Abstract We consider how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. We first explore the implications of... Read more
Abstract ‘It will be as different as night from day’, is how Senator John Kerry described the impact of Barack... Read more
The costs of adaptation Read more
Abstract A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism and other carbon trading schemes is a potential source of finance for... Read more
Abstract Climate change is increasingly seen to raise difficult normative issues. To date, cumulative emissions have been disproportionately from the... Read more
Working Paper 15 Abstract At present the USA is, in per capita terms, the top greenhouse gas polluter among the... Read more
Using patent data from 66 countries for the 1990–2003 period, we characterise the factors that promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale Read more
Working Paper 13 The aim of this paper is to consider, from an ethical point of view, the role that... Read more
Nicholas Stern The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen begins on 7 December and we can see the outline... Read more