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Publications

Publications

Journal articles and reports

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Further improvement of warming-equivalent emissions calculation

Smith, Cain & Allen, NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2021

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Deciding how to 'change big things quickly'

Mercure, Ives, Nijsse, Barbrook-Johnson, Policy note, 2021

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Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet - if we act now

Girardin, Jenkins, Seddon, Allen, Lewis, Wheeler, Griscom & Malhi, Nature, 2021

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A new perspective on decarbonising the global energy system

Ives, Righetti, Schiele, de Meyer, Hubble-Rose, Teng, Kruitwagen, Tillmann-Morris, Wang, Way & Hepburn, report, 2021

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Using detection and attribution to quantify how climate change is affecting health

Ebi, Åström, Boyer, Harrington, Hess, Honda, Kazura, Stuart-Smith & Otto, Health Affairs 2021

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Correcting course: the emission reduction potential of international cooperative initiatives

Lui, Kuramochi, Smit, Roelfsema, Hsu, Weingurter, Chan, Hale, Fekete, Lukehermoller, de Villafranca Casas, Nascimento, Sterl & Hohne, Climate Policy, 2021

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The rise of science in low-carbon technologies

Hötte, Pichler & Lafond, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021

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A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets

Smith, S.M., Communications Earth & Environment 2, 24 (2021)

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Ammonia to power: Forecasting the levelized cost of electricity from green ammonia in large-scale power plants

Cesaro, Ives, Nayak-Luke, Mason & Banares-Alcantara, Applied Energy, 2021

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The Oxford principles for net zero aligned carbon offsetting

Allen, Axelsson, Caldecott, Hale, Hepburn, Hickey, Mitchell-Larson, Malhi, Otto, Seddon & Smith, report, 2020

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Climate change and emerging markets after Covid-19

 

Cohen, Ives, Srivastav, Schwarz, Lu, Mealy, de Souza, Jackson & Hepburn, report for Pictet Asset Management, 2021

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Achieving Alignment in Finance

Caldecott, Climate-KIC Thought Leadership Series, 2020

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Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses

Co-authors include Hale, Report, 2019

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Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions​

 

Hepburn, Allas, Cozzi, Liebreich, Skea, Whitmarsh, Wilkes & Worthington, Report of the Policy Advisory Group of the Committee on Climate Change, 2020

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An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19

Klower, Hopkins, Allen & Higham, Nature 583, 356-359, 2020

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Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact

 

Hale, Chan, Hsu, Clapper, Elliott, Faria, Kuramochi, McDaniel, Morgado, Roelfsema, Santaella, Singh, Tout, Weber, Weinfurter & Widerberg, Climate Policy, 2020

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Less precision, more truth: uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy

Hepburn and Farmer, in Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, pp420-438, 2020.

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Transformational change: parallels for addressing climate and development goals

Mealy and Hepburn, in Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, pp397-419, 2020.

Picture of the front page of the Working Paper
The Effect of Firm-level ESG Practices on Macroeconomic Performance

 

Zhou, Caldecott, Harnett & Schumacher, Climate Policy, Working Paper 2020

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Beyond national climate action: the impact of region, city, and business commitments on global greenhouse gas emissions

 

Kuramochi, Roelfsema, Hsu, Lui, Weinfurter, Chan, Hale, Clapper, Chang & Höhne, Climate Policy, 2020

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Economic complexity and the green economy

Mealy & Teytelboym, 

Research Policy, 2020

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Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation

Pless, Hepburn & Farrell, Nature Energy, 5, 2020

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Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?

Hepburn, O'Callaghan, Stern, Stiglitz & Zenghelis

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020

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Demonstrating GWP*

Lynch, Cain, Pierrehumbert & Allen

Environmental Research Letters, 2020

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Revoking coal mining permits: an economic and legal analysis

Rafaty, Srivastav & Hoops, 

Climate Policy, 2020

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The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

Hepburn, Adlen, Beddington, Carter, Fuss, MacDowell, Minx, Smith & Williams, Nature, 575, 2019

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Targeted carbon tax reforms

King, Tarbush & Teytelboym, 

European Economic Review, Volume 119,  Pages 526-547, October 2019

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Yearbook of global climate action

Contributors include Hale, Third UNFCCC Yearbook, 2019

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A survey of the net zero positions of the world’s largest energy companies

Dietz, Jahn, Noels, Stuart-Smith, & Hepburn, Report, 2019

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Sensitive Intervention Points in the Post Carbon Transition

Farmer, Hepburn, Ives, Hale, Wetzer, Mealy, Rafaty, Srivastav & Way, Science, 364(6435), 2019

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Making carbon pricing work for citizens

 

Klenert, Mattauch, Combet, Edenhofer, Hepburn, Rafaty & Stern, Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 2018

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Toward demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change​

Creutzig, Roy, Lamb et al.,

Nature Climate Change 8, 2018

ERL.jpg
Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement​

 

Pfeiffer, Hepburn, Vogt-Schlib, & Caldecott, Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), 2018

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Interpreting Economic Complexity

 

Mealy, Farmer & Teytelboym, Science Advances, 5(1) 2019

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Carbon lock-in curves and Southeast Asia: Implications for the Paris Agreement

 

Caldecott, McCarten & Triantafyllidis, Briefing Paper, 2018

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Encouraging innovation that protects environmental systems: Five policy proposals

 

Hepburn, Pless & Popp, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 12(1) 2018

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Low-carbon competitiveness in Asia

 

Srivastav, Fankhauser & Kazaglis, Economies, 6(1) 2018

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Wright meets Markowitz: How standard portfolio theory changes when assets are technologies following experience curves

 

Way, Lafond, Lillo, Pachenko & Farmer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 101, 2019

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How predictable is technological progress

 

Farmer & Lafond, Research Policy, 45(3) 2016

Working papers

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Five Worlds of Political Strategy in the Climate Movement

Srivastav & Rafaty, INET Working Paper, 2021

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Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains

Kruitwagen, Klaas, Lakeh, Fan, Paper (SSRN), 2021

Journal articles and reports

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Measuring corporate Paris Compliance using a strict science-based approach

Rekker, Ives, Wade, Webb & Grieg, Nature Communications, 2022

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Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from years of summits

Chan, Hale, Deneault, Shrivastava, Kennedy Mbeva, Chengo, Atela, Nature Climate Change, 2022

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Decarbonization in state-owned power companies: Lessons from a comparative analysis

Benoit, Clark, Schwarz, Dibley, Journal of Cleaner Production , 2022

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Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change

Rising, Taylor, Ives, Ward, Ecological Economics, 2022

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Sensitive intervention points in China's coal phaseout

van Voss, Rafaty, Energy Policy, 2022

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Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy

Zhou, Caldecott, Hoepner, Wang, Business Strategy and the Environment, 2022

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The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

Fankhauser, Smith, Allen, Axelsson, Hale, Hepburn, Kendall, Khosla, Lezaun, Mitchell-Larson, Obersteiner, Rajamani, Rickaby, Seddon, Wetzer, Nature Climate Change, 2021

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A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units

Kruitwagen, Story, Friedrich, Byers, Skillman, Hepburn, Nature, 2021

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The new economics of innovation and transition: Evaluating opportunities and risks

Grubb et al, Economics of Energy Innovation and SystemTransition report, 2021

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Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy

Jenkins, Mitchell-Larson, Ives, Haszeldine, Allen, Joule, 2021

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Rething 'cost-benefit analysis' to tackle climate change

Mercure, Sharpe, Vinuales, Ives, Grubb, Lam, Drummond, Pollitt, Knobloch, & Nijsse, Global Environmental Change, 2021

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Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry

Green, Hadden, Hale & Mahdavi, Review of International Political Economy, 2021

Can European electric utilities manage asset impairments arising from net zero carbon targets?

Hickey, O'Brien, Caldecott McInerney & Ó Gallachóir, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021

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Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation

Stuart-Smith, Otto, Saad, Lisi, Minnerop, Cedervall Lauta, van Zwieten & Wetzer, Nature Climate Change, 2021

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Zero-Emissions Shipping: contracts-for-difference as incentives for the decarbonisation of international shipping

Clark, Ives, Fay, Lambe, Schiele, Larsson, Krejcie, Tillmann-Morris, Barbrook-Johnson & Hepburn, report, 2021

nature.jpg
Further improvement of warming-equivalent emissions calculation

Smith, Cain & Allen, NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2021

EEIST paper_edited.jpg
Deciding how to 'change big things quickly'

Mercure, Ives, Nijsse, Barbrook-Johnson, Policy note, 2021

nature.jpg
Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet - if we act now

Girardin, Jenkins, Seddon, Allen, Lewis, Wheeler, Griscom & Malhi, Nature, 2021

nature.jpg
new perspective.jpg
A new perspective on decarbonising the global energy system

Ives, Righetti, Schiele, de Meyer, Hubble-Rose, Teng, Kruitwagen, Tillmann-Morris, Wang, Way & Hepburn, report, 2021

Health affairs.jpg
Using detection and attribution to quantify how climate change is affecting health

Ebi, Åström, Boyer, Harrington, Hess, Honda, Kazura, Stuart-Smith & Otto, Health Affairs 2021

cover.jpg
Correcting course: the emission reduction potential of international cooperative initiatives

Lui, Kuramochi, Smit, Roelfsema, Hsu, Weingurter, Chan, Hale, Fekete, Lukehermoller, de Villafranca Casas, Nascimento, Sterl & Hohne, Climate Policy, 2021

200px-Elsevier.svg.png
The rise of science in low-carbon technologies

Hötte, Pichler & Lafond, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021

nature.jpg
A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets

Smith, S.M., Communications Earth & Environment 2, 24 (2021)

200px-Elsevier_edited.png
Ammonia to power: Forecasting the levelized cost of electricity from green ammonia in large-scale power plants

Cesaro, Ives, Nayak-Luke, Mason & Banares-Alcantara, Applied Energy, 2021

nature.jpg
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Capital-Shift.jpg
Energy-Environment.jpg
Climate change and emerging markets after Covid-19

 

Cohen, Ives, Srivastav, Schwarz, Lu, Mealy, de Souza, Jackson & Hepburn, report for Pictet Asset Management, 2021

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Catalytic cooperation

Hale, Global Environmental Politics, 2021

offfset.jpg
The Oxford principles for net zero aligned carbon offsetting

Allen, Axelsson, Caldecott, Hale, Hepburn, Hickey, Mitchell-Larson, Malhi, Otto, Seddon & Smith, report, 2020

Papers12_front-cover-1.png
Achieving Alignment in Finance

Caldecott, Climate-KIC Thought Leadership Series, 2020

policy-advisory-group-706x988.png
Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions​

 

Hepburn, Allas, Cozzi, Liebreich, Skea, Whitmarsh, Wilkes & Worthington, Report of the Policy Advisory Group of the Committee on Climate Change, 2020

nature.jpg
nature.jpg
An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19

Klower, Hopkins, Allen & Higham, Nature 583, 356-359, 2020

cover.jpg
Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact

 

Hale, Chan, Hsu, Clapper, Elliott, Faria, Kuramochi, McDaniel, Morgado, Roelfsema, Santaella, Singh, Tout, Weber, Weinfurter & Widerberg, Climate Policy, 2020

9780857939050-thumb.jpg
Less precision, more truth: uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy

Hepburn and Farmer, in Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, pp420-438, 2020.

9780857939050-thumb.jpg
Transformational change: parallels for addressing climate and development goals

Mealy and Hepburn, in Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, pp397-419, 2020.

Picture of the front page of the Working Paper
The Effect of Firm-level ESG Practices on Macroeconomic Performance

 

Zhou, Caldecott, Harnett & Schumacher, Climate Policy, Working Paper 2020

cover.jpg
Beyond national climate action: the impact of region, city, and business commitments on global greenhouse gas emissions

 

Kuramochi, Roelfsema, Hsu, Lui, Weinfurter, Chan, Hale, Clapper, Chang & Höhne, Climate Policy, 2020

200px-Elsevier_edited.png
Economic complexity and the green economy

Mealy & Teytelboym, 

Research Policy, 2020

nature.jpg
Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation

Pless, Hepburn & Farrell, Nature Energy, 5, 2020

m_cover.png
Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?

Hepburn, O'Callaghan, Stern, Stiglitz & Zenghelis

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020

ERL.jpg
Demonstrating GWP*

Lynch, Cain, Pierrehumbert & Allen

Environmental Research Letters, 2020

cover.jpg
Revoking coal mining permits: an economic and legal analysis

Rafaty, Srivastav & Hoops, 

Climate Policy, 2020

nature.jpg
The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

Hepburn, Adlen, Beddington, Carter, Fuss, MacDowell, Minx, Smith & Williams, Nature, 575, 2019

200px-Elsevier_edited.png
Targeted carbon tax reforms

King, Tarbush & Teytelboym, 

European Economic Review, Volume 119,  Pages 526-547, October 2019

Report-NSA_edited.jpg
Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses

Co-authors include Hale, Report, 2019

1417448-GCA_Yearbook2019.png
Yearbook of global climate action

Contributors include Hale, Third UNFCCC Yearbook, 2019

TPI_logo%402x-6699da982b04ee5ef8e3654d28
A survey of the net zero positions of the world’s largest energy companies

Dietz, Jahn, Noels, Stuart-Smith, & Hepburn, Report, 2019

Science-Square-Logo.jpg
Sensitive Intervention Points in the Post Carbon Transition

Farmer, Hepburn, Ives, Hale, Wetzer, Mealy, Rafaty, Srivastav & Way, Science, 364(6435), 2019

natureclimatechange.png
Making carbon pricing work for citizens

 

Klenert, Mattauch, Combet, Edenhofer, Hepburn, Rafaty & Stern, Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 2018

natureclimatechange2.jpeg
Toward demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change​

Creutzig, Roy, Lamb et al.,

Nature Climate Change 8, 2018

ERL.jpg
Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement​

 

Pfeiffer, Hepburn, Vogt-Schlib, & Caldecott, Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), 2018

sciadvance.png
Interpreting Economic Complexity

 

Mealy, Farmer & Teytelboym, Science Advances, 5(1) 2019

Screen Shot 2019-04-07 at 14.50.51.png
Carbon lock-in curves and Southeast Asia: Implications for the Paris Agreement

 

Caldecott, McCarten & Triantafyllidis, Briefing Paper, 2018

reep.jpeg
Encouraging innovation that protects environmental systems: Five policy proposals

 

Hepburn, Pless & Popp, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 12(1) 2018

Screen Shot 2019-04-07 at 20.33.48.png
Low-carbon competitiveness in Asia

 

Srivastav, Fankhauser & Kazaglis, Economies, 6(1) 2018

nature.jpg
jedc.jpg
Wright meets Markowitz: How standard portfolio theory changes when assets are technologies following experience curves

 

Way, Lafond, Lillo, Pachenko & Farmer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 101, 2019

RP.jpg
How predictable is technological progress

 

Farmer & Lafond, Research Policy, 45(3) 2016

Working papers

Picture of the cover page of the working paper
Five Worlds of Political Strategy in the Climate Movement

Srivastav & Rafaty, INET Working Paper, 2021

ssrn.png
Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains

Kruitwagen, Klaas, Lakeh, Fan, Paper (SSRN), 2021

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