Climate Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Climate Policy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana126
Closing the ambition gap: Germany's energy transition in line with a 1.5°C carbon budget120
Do CO2 emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai118
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry83
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu73
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil72
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states72
Access and meaningful participation of non-state actors in the UNFCCC process: path-dependencies in the era of ‘mega-COPs’68
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence65
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate62
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals59
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi56
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia51
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries50
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC50
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries45
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?42
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries42
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects41
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?41
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?40
Assessment of existing datasets for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (and beyond)39
Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review39
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment38
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund38
Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions37
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research36
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue35
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO 2 emissions34
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?33
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund33
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.32
Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia31
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia31
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage31
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement31
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture28
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers27
The political logic of just transition policies26
Turning reparations lessons into insights for the fund for responding to loss and damage26
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany26
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation25
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China25
Smallholder farmers’ engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling25
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices25
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework24
A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities24
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices24
Correction24
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 199524
Economic and social effectiveness of carbon pricing schemes to meet Brazilian NDC targets24
Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust22
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal22
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria22
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China21
Convergent evolution: framework climate legislation in Australia21
The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias21
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey21
Did Germany reach its 2020 climate targets thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic?21
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe20
Linking solar geoengineering and emissions reductions: strategically resolving an international climate change policy dilemma20
The effects of low-carbon transitions on labour productivity: analysing UK electricity, heat, and mobility with a techno-economic simulation model20
Multi-level climate governance: examining impacts and interactions between national and sub-national emissions mitigation policy mixes in Canada20
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys20
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy19
Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy19
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise19
An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool19
Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning19
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?18
Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making18
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage18
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors18
From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management17
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities17
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil17
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina17
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments17
Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance17
Correction16
Assessing the costs of fossil dependency: an integrated model for carbon costs across economic sectors in China and Germany16
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island16
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock16
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?15
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food15
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance15
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales15
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement15
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India15
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law15
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective14
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand14
Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)14
Nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Paris Agreement goals: transparency in communications from developing country Parties14
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium14
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa14
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument14
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support14
Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement?13
Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 202013
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations13
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China13
Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019)13
Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India13
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance13
Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies13
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress13
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations13
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards13
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy13
Assessing the rapidly-emerging landscape of net zero targets13
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations13
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage13
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal12
Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S.12
Cherry-picking climate science: how is the GST technical dialogue reflected in the final GST outcome?12
The influence of climate change vulnerability on gender inequality: evidence from international comparisons12
Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa12
State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States12
Clean at home, polluting abroad: the role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises12
Building institutional capacity for addressing climate and sustainable development goals: achieving energy efficiency in India12
The why, what and how of capacity building: some explorations12
Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation11
Countries with sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions: an analysis of trends and progress by sector11
Facing climate change together? The role of the collective dimension in mediating cash transfer effects on climate adaptation11
Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China's energy transition11
Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation11
Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach11
Climate risk and IMF surveillance policy: a baseline analysis11
Addressing risks to mental health from climate change: a policy capacity analysis of England10
Regional variability and its impact on the decarbonization of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries in Canada10
Empowering change: implementation of civil society climate actions in Southeast Asia10
The challenge of just transition in China’s coal power sector: a city-level employment vulnerability assessment10
Climate finance in developing countries: green budget tagging and resource mobilization10
Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes10
Integration of Short-Lived Climate Pollutant and air pollutant mitigation in nationally determined contributions10
Is border carbon adjustment the right tool for the power sector?9
Comparing electricity policies between the primary and tertiary needs: the need for distributive justice within the energy transition9
International cooperation for the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries: unlocking the full potential9
Tracing the development of Anti-Fossil Fuel Norms: insights from the Republic of Ireland9
Capacity building for climate transparency: neutral ‘means of implementation’ or generating political effects?9
The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition9
Examining climate change adaptation policies in Nepal: a qualitative content analysis through the Dalit lens9
Climate ambition and respective capabilities: are England’s local emissions targets spatially just?9
Climate finance and global justice9
Disaster risk reduction and climate policy implementation challenges in Canada and Australia9
Estimating GHG emissions from cloud computing: sources of inaccuracy, opportunities and challenges in location-based and use-based approaches9
Are population issues mainstreamed into climate change policies and action in Nigeria? Evidence from a systematic review of national climate change documents9
Setting the agenda for climate assemblies. Trade-offs and guiding principles8
Public acceptability of carbon pricing: unravelling the impact of revenue recycling8
Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach8
Scenarios for different ‘Future Indias’: sharpening energy and climate modelling tools8
Definitions and accounting of climate finance: between divergence and constructive ambiguity8
Unintended emissions: the carbon leakage effects of the third-phase EU ETS tightening on trade-exposed Chinese firms8
Social justice in the context of climate policy: systematizing the variety of inequality dimensions, social impacts, and justice principles8
Enabling gender and social inclusion in climate and agriculture policy and planning through foresight processes: assessing challenges and leverage points8
How emissions trading affects income inequality: evidence from China8
Co-benefits of regionally-differentiated carbon pricing policies across China8
Exploring low-carbon pilot city policy implementation: evidence from China8
Carbon farming in India: are the existing projects inclusive, additional, and permanent?8
A mission perspective on emissions reduction at the city level: the case of Glasgow, Scotland8
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?8
Pushing low-carbon mobility: a survey experiment on the public acceptance of disruptive policy packages8
Climate shaming: explaining environmental NGOs targeting practices8
Assessing risks to the implementation of NDCs under the Paris Agreement8
Unveiling local climate action: a case study of mitigation efforts in Gauteng’s West Rand District Municipality, South Africa8
The pending commitment and ongoing political divide on carbon pricing in Japan8
Between a rock and a hard place: unpacking India’s engagement in UNFCCC transparency arrangements8
The green transition in emerging economies: green bond issuance in Brazil and China8
Sharing the decarbonisation effort: getting Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East countries on the road to global carbon neutrality8
The impact of collateral-based monetary policy on green financing cost: an analysis of the People's Bank of China’s approach7
Multinationals, research and development, and carbon emissions: international evidence7
A pathway design framework for national freight transport decarbonization strategies7
Climate change risks and opportunities: do sustainable business practices matter?7
Going green, growing strong: how climate policy boosts US companies performance7
The knowledge politics of capacity building for climate change at the UNFCCC7
Do impoverished regions benefit from climate change mitigation measures? Evidence from the Forest Carbon Sink Project in China7
Pilot policies for low-carbon cities in China: a study of the impact on green finance development and energy carbon efficiency7
Developing an Ad Hominem typology for classifying climate misinformation7
Carbon offsetting in city climate action: role, determinants and characteristics7
The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action7
Exploring the influence of financial development on climate physical risk: insights from China7
The politics of phasing out fossil fuels: party positions and voter reactions in Norway7
Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report7
Carbon pricing under electricity market constraints: analyzing rent management dynamics in the Republic of Korea6
Environmental policy and the evolution of revenue efficiency in global oil and gas companies6
Adaptive capacity of agricultural institutions to climate change and the barriers: a comparative study from Turkey6
Climate policy landscape and networks in China from 2000 to 20226
Greenhouse gas emission budgets and policies for zero-Carbon road transport in Europe6
Investment planning to minimize climate risk in agricultural production: an optimization model for a semi-arid region in India6
How aligned are industry strategy and government policy for the decarbonization of energy-intensive process industries?6
Strengthening climate adaptation in the northern region of Ghana: insights from a stakeholder analysis6
Taking stock of carbon dioxide removal policy in emerging economies: developments in Brazil, China, and India6
Responsible energy production and consumption: improving knowledge, attitude and behaviour through energy literacy training in India6
Carbon border adjustment mechanism: a systematic literature review of the latest developments6
Governing offshore wind: is an ‘Asia-Pacific Model’ emerging?6
Comparison of carbon management and emissions of universities that did and did not adopt voluntary carbon offsets6
Tax expenditures as tools for state-level climate action in the U.S.6
Pricing carbon effectively: a pathway for higher climate change ambition6
Cognition, emotion, and belief in the adaptation response of older people to heatwaves5
How does the climate change and migration nexus result in maladaptation?5
How can regional policy help address climate impacts in agriculture? evaluating the climate-smart agriculture strategy for Central America (EASAC)5
China’s climate governance from 2009 to 2019: motivations, instruments, actors, and geopolitics5
A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events5
Setting the sun on off-grid solar?: policy lessons from the Bangladesh solar home systems (SHS) programme5
Towards net zero: making baselines for international carbon markets dynamic by applying ‘ambition coefficients’5
Carbon prices on the rise? Shedding light on the emerging second EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS 2)5
Evaluating regional carbon emissions trading in China: effects, pathways, co-benefits, spillovers, and prospects5
Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation5
Understanding cultural losses and damages induced by climate change in the Pacific region: evidence from Fiji5
Social Engagement with climate change: principles for effective visual representation on social media5
Socio-economic constraints to low-carbon transitions: insights from Kazakhstan’s Emissions Trading Scheme5
Regional industrial redistribution and carbon emissions: a dynamic analysis for China5
Human rights in climate change adaptation policies: a systematic assessment5
Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities5
The urgent case for stronger climate targets for international shipping5
Scaling agroforestry through payments for ecosystem services: a scoping review4
Carbon emissions reduction of cropland management is substantially greater than carbon sequestrations of cropland abandonment in the North China Plain4
Aligning green budgeting with nationally determined contributions4
Dual dependence on low-carbon transition of small and medium enterprises in Taiwan: the policy perspective4
Exploring the democracy-climate nexus: a review of correlations between democracy and climate policy performance4
Industrial concentration in South Korea: implications for the auction design of carbon contracts for difference scheme4
How significant a role can China’s forest sector play in decarbonizing its economy?4
Potential economic impacts of carbon tariffs on target countries: a systematic review4
Harnessing oil and gas superprofits for climate action4
Does information change public support for climate mitigation policies?4
Carbon removal for a just transition4
From parking place to public space: a factorial survey experiment on public acceptability of parking space reallocation in Germany4
Climate change and central banks: what role for monetary policy?4
Factors promoting business strategies, activities, and long-term commitment for climate change mitigation: a survey of Japanese enterprises4
Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment4
Actors participation and power relations of REDD+ implementation in Bale Eco Region, Ethiopia4
Left behind: emerging oil and gas producers in a warming world4
1 + 1 > 2? The synergistic effect of carbon emissions reduction policies: empirical evidence from China4
A new way forward for ocean-climate policy as reflected in the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue submissions4
Evaluating the CO 2 emissions implications of hydrogen energy policies in North China based on a dedicated hydrogen planning model4
A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation3
Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts3
Promoting environmentally and socially responsible investing: interplay between climate and financial literacy3
Climate policy costs of spatially unbalanced growth in electricity demand: the case of datacentres in Ireland3
Agroforestry as land-based carbon dioxide removal in central Europe: tensions between institutions, interests, and ideas hindering scaling up3
A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies3
Global guidelines, local interpretations: ethnography of climate policy implementation in Mapuche territory, Southern Chile3
A right to pollute versus a duty to mitigate: on the basis of emissions trading and carbon markets3
Mainstreaming climate adaptation into urban development projects in the Netherlands: private sector drivers and municipal policy instruments3
Banks’ climate commitments: a silver lining for climate action or just hot air? First evidence from the Swiss mortgage business3
Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative3
A missing link? The role of international organizations in climate-related planned relocation3
Do climate risks influence foreign direct investment inflows to emerging and developing economies?3
Peer effects affect the adaptation behaviour of rural residents to geohazards in China: a new policy pathway3
0.088674068450928