OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate Policy is 11. 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.)

Article	Citations
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	126
Closing the ambition gap: Germany's energy transition in line with a 1.5°C carbon budget	120
Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai	118
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	83
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	73
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	72
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	72
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 evidence	65
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate	62
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	59
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	56
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	51
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	50
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	50
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	45
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 countries	42
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	41
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 review	39
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	38
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	38

Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions	37
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	36
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	35
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	34
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	33
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	33
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	32
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	31
Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia	31
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia	31
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	31
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture	28
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers	27
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany	26
The political logic of just transition policies	26
Turning reparations lessons into insights for the fund for responding to loss and damage	26
Smallholder farmers’ engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling	25
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices	25
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation	25
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	25
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework	24
A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities	24
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices	24
Correction	24
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 1995	24
Economic and social effectiveness of carbon pricing schemes to meet Brazilian NDC targets	24
Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust	22
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal	22
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria	22
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China	21
Convergent evolution: framework climate legislation in Australia	21
The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias	21
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey	21
Did Germany reach its 2020 climate targets thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic?	21
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe	20
Linking solar geoengineering and emissions reductions: strategically resolving an international climate change policy dilemma	20
The effects of low-carbon transitions on labour productivity: analysing UK electricity, heat, and mobility with a techno-economic simulation model	20
Multi-level climate governance: examining impacts and interactions between national and sub-national emissions mitigation policy mixes in Canada	20
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys	20
Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning	19
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy	19
Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy	19
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise	19
An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool	19
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors	18
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?	18
Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making	18
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage	18
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments	17
Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance	17

From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management	17
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	17
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil	17
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	17
Correction	16
Assessing the costs of fossil dependency: an integrated model for carbon costs across economic sectors in China and Germany	16
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	16
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	16
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	15
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	15
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	15
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	15
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	15
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	15
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	15
Nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Paris Agreement goals: transparency in communications from developing country Parties	14
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	14
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	14
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	14
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support	14
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective	14
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand	14
Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)	14
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	13
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations	13
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards	13
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy	13
Assessing the rapidly-emerging landscape of net zero targets	13
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations	13
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage	13
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 2020	13
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations	13
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China	13
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 India	13
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	13
Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies	13
The influence of climate change vulnerability on gender inequality: evidence from international comparisons	12
Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa	12
State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States	12
Clean at home, polluting abroad: the role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises	12
Building institutional capacity for addressing climate and sustainable development goals: achieving energy efficiency in India	12
The why, what and how of capacity building: some explorations	12
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal	12
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
Facing climate change together? The role of the collective dimension in mediating cash transfer effects on climate adaptation	11
Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China's energy transition	11
Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation	11
Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach	11
Climate risk and IMF surveillance policy: a baseline analysis	11
Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation	11
Countries with sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions: an analysis of trends and progress by sector	11