Unraveling the Notion of “Fair Carbon”: Key Challenges for Standards Development
Rebecca Joy Howard, Anne Tallontire, Lindsay Stringer, Rob Marchant (2015). In World Development, 70, 343-356.
Topic: Carbon pricing and markets
The ‘optimal and equitable’ climate finance gap
This study uses a number of Integrated Assessment Models to determine what the optimal financial transfers between high-income and developing economies would be if climate mitigation costs were to be divided equally across regions. read more »
Emissions Markets and Products
Chapter 5 in Andrea Roncoroni, Gianluca Fusai, and Mark Cummins (eds.) Handbook of Multi-Commodity Markets and Products: Structuring, Trading and Risk Management. Wiley, 2015 Link to publisher
Urgent market stability reserve: Important for clean energy investment
This column discusses how the Market Stability Reserve should be designed and whether it could improve the emissions trading. read more »
Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade
This paper measures the response of bilateral trade flows to differences in industrial energy prices across countries. Using a panel for the period 1996-2011 including 42 countries, 62 sectors and … read more »
The impact of energy prices on energy efficiency: Evidence from the UK refrigerator market
It is commonly believed that large energy efficiency gaps exist in the energy-using durables markets. We develop a broad analytical framework capturing consumer purchase behavior and suppliers’ pricing and innovation … read more »
Energy and carbon markets in Europe: Larger or smaller markets?
Presentation given at the Cumberland Lodge Workshop organised by the European Institute at the LSE. read more »
Are corporate carbon management practices impacting on corporate carbon emissions?
This paper is the first large scale, quantitative study of the impact of corporate carbon management practices on corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using data for 2009 and 2010 from the Carbon Disclosure Project survey, we find little compelling evidence that commonly adopted management practices are reducing emissions. read more »
Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change on ‘ Fuelling the debate: Committee successes and future challenges ’
Outlines the main energy and climate change challenges in the UK over the next five-year term read more »
Green regulations cripple the economy? Show me the proof
If environmental red tape is the source of so many economic woes, why is the evidence of the harm they cause so sketchy? read more »