OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Climate Policy is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways	89
Modelling net-zero emissions energy systems requires a change in approach	86
Greening monetary policy	82
Equity, climate justice and fossil fuel extraction: principles for a managed phase out	76
Decarbonising the critical sectors of aviation, shipping, road freight and industry to limit warming to 1.5–2°C	74
Climate finance policy in practice: a review of the evidence	73
An industrial policy framework for transforming energy and emissions intensive industries towards zero emissions	72
Countries with sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions: an analysis of trends and progress by sector	71
Upward-scaling tipping cascades to meet climate goals: plausible grounds for hope	70
Influence of a pilot carbon trading policy on enterprises’ low-carbon innovation in China	62
Potential implications of carbon dioxide removal for the sustainable development goals	61
The financial impact of fossil fuel divestment	58
The making of green steel in the EU: a policy evaluation for the early commercialization phase	56
Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact	56
Assessing the rapidly-emerging landscape of net zero targets	56
Managing uncertainty in carbon offsets: insights from California’s standardized approach	55
Designing an effective climate-policy mix: accounting for instrument synergy	54
Caught in between: credibility and feasibility of the voluntary carbon market post-2020	52
Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa	44
Central banks, financial stability and policy coordination in the age of climate uncertainty: a three-layered analytical and operational framework	44
Reducing inequality resulting from UK low-carbon policy	41
Curbing fossil fuel supply to achieve climate goals	40
The impact of strategic climate legislation: evidence from expert interviews on the UK Climate Change Act	39
Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation	39
Towards a post-pandemic policy framework to manage climate-related financial risks and resilience	39

Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery	37
Harnessing international climate governance to drive a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Smallholder farmers’ engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling	37
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	36
Understanding public concern about climate change in Europe, 2008–2017: the influence of economic factors and right-wing populism	35
Carbon accounting for negative emissions technologies	34
Modelling the economic effects of COVID-19 and possible green recovery plans: a post-Keynesian approach	33
Impacts of climate change policies worldwide on the Russian economy	33
Carbon pricing and competitiveness: are they at odds?	32
Glass half full or glass half empty?: the 2021 Glasgow Climate Conference	31
Twenty years of climate policy: G20 coverage and gaps	30
Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes	30
Beyond good intentions, to urgent action: Former UNFCCC leaders take stock of thirty years of international climate change negotiations	29
Climate clubs: politically feasible and desirable?	29
Carbon pricing and COVID-19	28
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	28
A classification framework for carbon tax revenue use	27
Quantifying international public finance for climate change adaptation in Africa	27
Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly	26
Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?	26
Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions	26
Public support for aviation policy measures in Sweden	26
A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation	26
CCUS As a second-best choice for China's carbon neutrality: an institutional analysis	25
Bots and online climate discourses: Twitter discourse on President Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement	25
Toward Indigenous visions of nature-based solutions: an exploration into Canadian federal climate policy	25
Climate change and central banks: what role for monetary policy?	24
Mobilising private climate finance for sustainable energy access and climate change mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa	24
A dual-track transition to global carbon pricing	24
Political conflict and climate policy: the European emissions trading system as a Trojan Horse for the low-carbon transition?	24
How green primary iron production in South Africa could help global decarbonization	23
A green COVID-19 recovery of the EU basic materials sector: identifying potentials, barriers and policy solutions	23
A blockchain-based emissions trading system for the road transport sector: policy design and evaluation	23
REDD+ and leakage: debunking myths and promoting integrated solutions	22
Drivers of global and national CO₂ emissions changes 2000–2017	22
The urgent case for stronger climate targets for international shipping	21
Building local capacity to adapt to climate change	21
National laws for enhancing flood resilience in the context of climate change: potential and shortcomings	21
Planning for a different kind of sea change: lessons from Australia for sea level rise and coastal flooding	20
Governing sustainable finance: insights from Indonesia	20
Farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for climate-smart agricultural technologies on rice production in Nigeria	20
Global adaptation governance: how intergovernmental organizations mainstream climate change adaptation	20
Border carbon adjustments and industrial competitiveness in a European Green Deal	20
Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment	19
Divestment, energy incumbency and the global political economy of energy transition: the case of Adani’s Carmichael mine in Australia	19
A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies	19
Who puts a price on carbon, why and how? A global empirical analysis of carbon pricing policies	19
Applying intersectionality to climate hazards: a theoretically informed study of wildfire in northern Saskatchewan	19
Deepening transparency about value-laden assumptions in energy and environmental modelling: improving best practices for both modellers and non-modellers	18
Correcting course: the emission reduction potential of international cooperative initiatives	18

Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019)	18
Disaster management leadership and policy making: a critical examination of communitarian and individualistic understandings of resilience and vulnerability	18
What matters for private investment in renewable energy?	17
Biodiversity loss and climate change interactions: financial stability implications for central banks and financial supervisors	17
Climate justice and rights-based litigation in a post-Paris world	17
A new way forward for ocean-climate policy as reflected in the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue submissions	17
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	17
Towards zero carbon and zero poverty: integrating national climate change mitigation and sustainable development goals	17
Evaluating regional carbon emissions trading in China: effects, pathways, co-benefits, spillovers, and prospects	17
Carbon pricing and economic populism: the case of Ontario	17
Sweden’s Climate Act – its origin and emergence	16
Mind the gap: personal carbon trading for road transport in Kenya	16
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	16
Challenges and opportunities for climate policy integration in oil-producing countries: the case of the UAE and Oman	16
Taming the Green Swan: a criteria-based analysis to improve the understanding of climate-related financial risk assessment tools	15
Addressing the climate change adaptation puzzle: a psychological science perspective	15
Climate Change Acts in Scotland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden: the role of discourse and deliberation	15
Utilization-focused scientific policy advice: a six-point checklist	15
Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach	15
Snapshot of the Carbon Dioxide Removal certification and standards ecosystem (2021–2022)	15
Leader on paper, laggard in practice: policy fragmentation and the multi-level paralysis in implementation of the Mexican Climate Act	15
Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach	15
Assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation pathways for Thailand towards achievement of the 2°C and 1.5°C Paris Agreement targets	14
Building institutional capacity for addressing climate and sustainable development goals: achieving energy efficiency in India	14
Obstacles and opportunities for moratoria on oil and gas exploration or extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean	14
Revising the EU ETS and CORSIA in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges for reducing global aviation emissions	14
Balancing cost and justice concerns in the energy transition: comparing coal phase-out policies in Germany and the UK	14
Accelerating the speed and scale of climate finance in the post-pandemic context	14
The EU ETS to 2030 and beyond: adjusting the cap in light of the 1.5°C target and current energy policies	14
Idealism, pragmatism, and the power of compromise in the negotiation of New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act	13
Pricing carbon effectively: a pathway for higher climate change ambition	13
Performing accountability: face-to-face account-giving in multilateral climate transparency processes	13
COVID-19 recovery and climate policy	13
Beyond shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and representative concentration pathways (RCPs): climate policy implementation scenarios for Europe, the US and China	13
Climate justice: priorities for equitable recovery from the pandemic	13
Progressive supply-side policy under the Paris Agreement to enhance geological carbon storage	13
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	13
Acceptance of climate-oriented policy measures under the COVID-19 crisis: an empirical analysis for Germany	12
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	12
A pathway design framework for sectoral deep decarbonization: the case of passenger transportation	12
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?	12
Systemic failures in north–south climate change knowledge transfer: a case study of the Congo Basin	12
Climate Change Acts: Origins, Dynamics, and Consequences	12
Integrating climate and food policies in higher education: a case study of the University of California	11
Catalysing private and public action for climate change mitigation: the World Bank’s role in international carbon markets	11
Greening monetary policy: evidence from the People’s Bank of China	11
Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative	11
Loss and damage after Paris: more bark than bite?	11
Co-benefits of regionally-differentiated carbon pricing policies across China	10
Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications	10
Social Engagement with climate change: principles for effective visual representation on social media	10
Farmers’ adaptations strategies towards soil salinity effects in agriculture: the interior coast of Bangladesh	10
If money talks, what is the banking industry saying about climate change?	10
The influence of climate change advisory bodies on political debates: evidence from the UK Committee on Climate Change	10
Banks’ climate commitments and credit to carbon-intensive industries: new evidence for France	10
How does climate change adaptation policy in India consider gender? An analysis of 28 state action plans	9
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment	9
Scenarios for mitigating CO₂ emissions from energy supply in the absence of CO₂ removal	9
Public support for carbon taxation in Turkey: drivers and barriers	9
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	9
Routes to credible climate commitment: the UK and Denmark compared	9
Concept of climate-charged airspaces: a potential policy instrument for internalizing aviation's climate impact of non-CO₂ effects	9
Capacity building for climate transparency: neutral ‘means of implementation’ or generating political effects?	8
Impact on the power mix and economy of Japan under a 2050 carbon-neutral scenario: Analysis using the E3ME macro-econometric model	8
Tackling the implementation gap of climate adaptation strategies: understanding policy translation in Brazil and Colombia	8
Paradoxes of Norway’s energy transition: controversies and justice	8
Exploring low-carbon pilot city policy implementation: evidence from China	8
Disaster risk reduction and climate policy implementation challenges in Canada and Australia	8
Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target	8
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	8
Perceptions of climate-related risk in Southeast Asia’s power sector	8
Climate migration and health system preparedness in the United States	8
Will the regime ever break? Assessing socio-political and economic pressures to climate action and European oil majors’ response (2005-2019)	8
The policy coordinator role of national development banks in scaling climate finance: Evidence from the renewable energy sector	8
Green innovation of state-owned oil and gas enterprises in BRICS countries: a review of performance	7
Costs and effectiveness of climate change adaptation in agriculture: a systematic review from the NENA region	7
Greenhouse gas emission budgets and policies for zero-Carbon road transport in Europe	7
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	7
Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking	7
Public evaluations of four approaches to ocean-based carbon dioxide removal	7

The effect of the EU ETS free allowance allocation on energy mix diversification: the case of Poland’s power sector	7
Strengthening climate adaptation in the northern region of Ghana: insights from a stakeholder analysis	7
Investor-state dispute settlement: obstructing a just energy transition	7
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	7
Leveraging the transport sector to mitigate long-term climate policy costs in China: a behavioural perspective	7
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	7
Industrial clustering as a barrier and an enabler for deep emission reduction: a case study of a Dutch chemical cluster	7
Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies	7
Supportive governance for city-scale low carbon building retrofits: a case study from Shanghai	7
Evaluating progress on loss and damage: an assessment of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism under the UNFCCC	7
Challenges and opportunities for universities in building adaptive capacities for sustainability: lessons from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean	7
Definitions and accounting of climate finance: between divergence and constructive ambiguity	7
The policy mix of green finance in China: an evolutionary and multilevel perspective	6
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal	6
Climate risk and IMF surveillance policy: a baseline analysis	6
Setting the sun on off-grid solar?: policy lessons from the Bangladesh solar home systems (SHS) programme	6
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	6
Scenarios for different ‘Future Indias’: sharpening energy and climate modelling tools	6
Has the international climate regime promoted climate justice? Evidence from Clean Development Mechanism projects in China	6
Convergent evolution: framework climate legislation in Australia	6
Clean at home, polluting abroad: the role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises	6
Climate-related prudential regulation tools in the context of sustainable and responsible investment: a systematic review	6
A dual-track transition to global carbon pricing: nice idea, but doomed to fail	6
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	6
Climate solutions to meet the suburban surge: leveraging COVID-19 recovery to enhance suburban climate governance	6
Towards net-zero emissions concrete and steel in India, Brazil and South Africa	6
Participatory modelling for climate change adaptation: the poultry sector in Nigeria	6
Adaptation, sustainable food systems and healthy diets: an analysis of climate policy integration in Fiji and Vanuatu	6
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	6
Measuring comprehensive carbon prices of national climate policies	6
The green transition in emerging economies: green bond issuance in Brazil and China	6
Integrating public health in European climate change adaptation policy and planning	5
Building capacity for ‘energy for development’ in Africa: four decades and counting	5
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey	5
Economic and environmental impacts of raising revenues for climate finance from public sources	5
The role of knowledge maps in sub-national climate change policymaking and governance	5
The knowledge politics of capacity building for climate change at the UNFCCC	5
Climate policy and financial system stability: evidence from Chinese fund markets	5
Who pays for BECCS and DACCS in the UK: designing equitable climate policy	5
A cross-sectoral integrated assessment of alternatives for climate mitigation in Madagascar	5
Farmers’ perceptions, determinants of adoption, and impact on food security: case of climate change adaptation measures in coastal Bangladesh	5
Whose jobs face transition risk in Alberta? Understanding sectoral employment precarity in an oil-rich Canadian province	5
Economic and social effectiveness of carbon pricing schemes to meet Brazilian NDC targets	5
Implications of the consumption-based accounting for future national emissions budgets	5
Tack to the future: is wind propulsion an ecomodernist or degrowth way to decarbonise maritime cargo transport?	5
Football and climate change: what do we know, and what is needed for an evidence-informed response?	5
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies in the EU? Exploring the role of state aid rules	5
EU Citizen support for climate-friendly agriculture (Farm) and dietary options (Fork) across the left-right political spectrum	5
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	5
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	5