Category: Politics

TOP TEN CLIMATE POLICY PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 2021 BY DOWNLOADS

We are pleased to announce our top ten downloaded papers this year, up to 30 June, from among those published in 2021. Congratulations to all the featured authors! Please check the Climate Policy website to view all our papers. Article Title Authors Downloads Upward-scaling tipping cascades to meet climate goals: plausible grounds for hope, Climate Policy, 21:4, 421-433, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1870097 Simon […]

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Delinking the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme from the Kyoto Protocol: comparing theory with practice

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 […]

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Transparency Adherence Indices: A first step in assessing country compliance with global climate transparency requirements

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 […]

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Successful industrial climate policy depends on tailor-made cluster approaches

To learn more about this topic, download the latest policy brief from the Climate Strategies website. The recently strengthened European greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in the European Green Deal imply a transformation of the EU’s materials sector. A 55% reduction in the next decade (compared to 1990 emissions) and climate neutrality in only 30 […]

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Climate contribution: a smart policy solution for decarbonising material production and use in the EU

On 11th December 2020, the European Council agreed on the 55% GHG reduction target for 2030. This is an important milestone in a longer journey to build a climate-neutral European economy by mid-century. Achieving this goal will not be possible without an appropriate policy framework for decarbonising material production and use in Europe. Such framework […]

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Climate Migration and Health System Preparedness in the United States

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 […]

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