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Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
Carattini, S., Baranzini, A., Thalmann, P. et al. Environ Resource Econ (2017). doi:10.1007/s10640-017-0133-8
Energy: Muscle, steam and combustion (book review)
Fouquet, R. (2017) In: Nature 544, 29–30 (06 April 2017) doi:10.1038/544029a
Insurance design in the presence of safety nets
Safety net assistance and insurance exist to manage risk and improve welfare. This shared goal may lead to crowding out. In a new approach, this paper analyzes the interaction … read more »
Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: insights from an agent-based model
Jenkins, K., Surminski, S., Hall, J. and Crick, F. (2017) Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: insights from an agent-based model. Science of the … read more »
Economic growth and development with low-carbon energy
Energy is needed for economic growth, and access to cheap, reliable energy is an essential development objective. However, in the future access to fossil fuel-based energy will need to be … read more »
Consultation response: ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’
This paper was submitted in response to the UK Government’s industrial strategy green paper: ‘Building our industrial strategy‘.
UK export opportunities in the low-carbon economy
This policy brief outlines the opportunities and threats to trade in low-carbon goods and services in the UK. Headline issues UK firms must be able to compete in the low-carbon … read more »
Financing low-carbon growth and innovation in the UK Industrial Strategy
This policy brief outlines how the public sector can crowd in private finance to support low-carbon growth and innovation in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy. Headline issues Funding the UK’s … read more »
Sustaining investment in climate innovation
Part of a series of Climate Innovation Insights published by Climate-KIC. Key messages Limiting global warming to 1.5°C, the target under the Paris Agreement, will require massive investments in low-carbon … read more »
The use of evidence by the Cabinet Office: submitted to the ‘My Science Inquiry’ by the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology
These are the annotated notes to accompany an oral presentation on 1 February 2017 to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology.
Water resources: Future Nile river flows
Declan Conway comments on new research published in Nature Climate change on future Nile river flows. The work shows annual Nile flows are projected to increase and importantly, year-to-year variability … read more »
UK risks losing out on post-Brexit trade in low-carbon goods and services
The UK could lose out on the global trade in low-carbon goods and services, which could be worth more than £1 trillion a year by 2030, unless the current Government’s … read more »
Responding to the sale of the Green Investment Bank
Commenting about the sale of the Green Investment Bank Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School … read more »
Carbon markets: link with caution
Letter published in Nature, 20 April
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