By Dominic White, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Motu Research had an article published recently in the journal Climate Policy called Delinking the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme from the Kyoto Protocol: comparing theory with practice. Linking emissions trading markets, when the linkages are designed and managed effectively, can have many benefits including improving […]

One of the few legally binding obligations of the 2015 Paris Agreement is for countries to be transparent to each other about what they are doing with regard to climate change. This can include sharing information about domestic measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to adapt to climate change. But the call for transparency is not […]

The United States is very focused on crisis management—that is crises that are dramatic and short in duration. With some pointed exceptions, the government responds quickly and pointedly to these instances from terrorist attacks to hurricanes. However, that response and the rhetoric surrounding it sounds quite a bit different when the crisis is protracted—much like […]

We are delighted to share this collection of editorials and reports on different Conference of the Parties (COPs) and Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) meetings, which Climate Policy Journal has published in the last 20 years. Take a trip down memory lane, and enjoy reading about some of those key landmarks: the collapse of negotiations at The […]

The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted consumption, production and government policy-making. This post and the accompanying paper argue that, despite these challenges, if one were to adopt or strengthen carbon pricing—either carbon taxes or cap & trade—during the COVID-19 crisis would be the time to do it. While carbon pricing has been on the mouths of […]

At this moment, countries worldwide face three main crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, a looming economic crisis, and a liberal democracy crisis, often exemplified by the rise of populism. What role can we expect the climate change crisis to play in the publics’ mind in times like these? This is an important question to ask for […]