pollution control technologies Archives - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

Adopt or innovate: Understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

by Raphael Calel

on 18 May, 2018

This paper presents new evidence that the EU Emissions Trading System may have encouraged innovation rather than simply encouraging polluters to adopt existing abatement technologies. Read more

Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: Evidence from automobile patents

Research article

by Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Eric Neumayer

on 4 September, 2014

Examines the impact of environmental regulation on the international diffusion of new technology through the patent system Read more

The “advancedness” of knowledge in pollution-saving technological change with a qualitative application to SO2 cap and trade

Working paper on 29 November, 2012

Working Paper 100 Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology is likely to play a... Read more

The “advancedness” of knowledge in pollution-saving technological change with a qualitative application to SO2 cap and trade

Research article on 20 June, 2012

Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance process... Read more

Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: evidence from automobile patents

Working paper

by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Richard Perkins and Eric Neumayer

on 1 February, 2012

This article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries, as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. Read more