Kyoto protocol Archives - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

What are the UN ‘COP’ climate change conferences?

on 28 November, 2023

This explainer sets out the purpose, significance and milestones of the UN 'COP' climate change conferences. Read more

What is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

on 24 October, 2022

This explainer on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) includes the goals, aims and impact of the Convention since its inception in 1992. Read more

Climate Change: are we heading for a new Cold War?

Policy Seminars

Chair: Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute Speaker: Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, director of Columbia Consortium... Read more

1 Oct '09

Climate Change Policy: why has so little been achieved?

Policy Seminars

While the scientific evidence for climate change grows, the policy responses have so far had little or no impact on... Read more

27 Oct '09

The influence of academics as insider-nongovernmental actors in the Post-Kyoto Protocol Climate Change Negotiations: a matter of timing, network and policy-entrepreneurial capabilities

Working paper

by Katharine Rietig

on 1 September, 2011

Working Paper 58 Abstract Nongovernmental actors influence negotiations with insider or outsider strategies. Academics are valued by government delegates for... Read more

New frontiers in the economics of climate change

Research article

by Simon Dietz

on 17 July, 2009

New frontiers in the economics of climate change Read more

Institutional Mechanisms to Address the AAU Reserves in a Post-2012 Agreement

Research article

by Alina Averchenkova

on 19 June, 2009

Alexander Averchenkov and Alina Averchenkova Carbon and Climate Law Review, Issue 3, September 2009 Read more

Technology transfer by CDM projects: a comparison of Brazil, China, India and Mexico.

Research article

by Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Matthieu Glachant

on 18 February, 2009

Abstract In a companion paper [Dechezleprêtre, A., Glachant, M., Ménière, Y., 2008. The Clean Development Mechanism and the international diffusion... Read more

The Clean Development Mechanism and the international diffusion of technologies: an empirical study

Research article

by Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Matthieu Glachant

on 17 March, 2008

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is expected to stimulate the North–South transfer of climate-friendly technologies. This paper provides an assessment of the technology transfers that take place through the CDM using a data set of 644 registered projects. Read more

Climatic implications of the Kyoto Protocol: the contribution of international spillovers

by Roger Fouquet

on 3 June, 2002

Grubb, M., Hope, C., and Fouquet, R. 2002. Climatic Change, v.54, pp.11-28. Read more