This article considers the discrepancy between what countries, such as Spain, signed up to in the Paris Agreement on climate change and the policies of national governements. The article is based on an interview with the Grantham Research Institute's climate litigation expert, Joana Setzer. Read more
Building on the experiences of the UK’s Climate Change Act (2008) and the French Energy Transition law (2015), this article... Read more
Commenting on the outcome of the COP25 United Nations climate change summit in Madrid, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, chair of... Read more
The financial sector must seize the strategic opportunity to drive the net-zero-carbon transition, supported by government through clear policy signals and regulatory frameworks, says Spain's Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, in this post for the Sustainable Finance Leadership series. Read more
This paper aims to inform policy experts, legislators and decision makers on recent trends in climate change policy-making around the... Read more
This paper simulates the distributional consequences of alternative carbon emission reduction policies on power producers and finds that that a carbon tax outperforms all other instruments and does not reduce the profits of carbon-free generators. Read more
Ovando, Paola, Caparrós, Alejandro, Díaz-Balteiro, Luis, Pasalodos, María, Beguería, Santiago, Oviedo, José L., Montero, Gregorio and Campos, Pablo (2016) Spatial... Read more
We apply an experimental ecosystem accounting approach aimed at estimating the contribution of ecosystem services to total social income accrued... Read more