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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	184
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	144
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate	111
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	108
Closing the ambition gap: Germany's energy transition in line with a 1.5ˆC carbon budget	57
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	55
Access and meaningful participation of non-state actors in the UNFCCC process: path-dependencies in the era of ‘mega-COPs’	54
Air travel and carbon emissions: global evidence and a UK policy evaluation	53
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	53
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	51
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	50
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	47
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	46
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	44
Questioning Net Zero: a case study of the UK’s national press coverage	43
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?	37
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	37
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	36
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	36
Assessment of existing datasets for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (and beyond)	35
Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions	33
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	32
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	31
Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review	30
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	30

Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	29
Determinants of firms’ acceptability of carbon taxation: a systematic literature review	29
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	28
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture	28
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	27
Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia	27
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	27
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia	26
Climate finance as a catalyst for peace	26
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	26
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	25
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation	25
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices	25
Should public institutions adopt plant-based diets? Climate duties and shared leadership	25
Turning reparations lessons into insights for the fund for responding to loss and damage	25
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 1995	24
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers	24
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	24
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany	24
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices	23
The political logic of just transition policies	23
Correction	23
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria	22
Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust	22
A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities	22
Multi-level climate governance: examining impacts and interactions between national and sub-national emissions mitigation policy mixes in Canada	22
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China	22
The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias	22
The effects of low-carbon transitions on labour productivity: analysing UK electricity, heat, and mobility with a techno-economic simulation model	22
Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy	21
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework	21
Optimal biomass allocation between forestry sinks and energy systems by an integrated modelling approach – decarbonization pathways for Hungary	21
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey	21
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe	21
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal	21
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?	20
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys	20
Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning	20
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors	20
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise	19
Battles and settlements in fossil finance: the UK and the making of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP)	19
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage	19
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments	18
Distributional concerns above all? Exploring perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of demand-side push measures in leisure air travel	18
From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management	18
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil	18
An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool	18
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy	18
Correction	17
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	17

Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making	17
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	17
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	16
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	16
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	16
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	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
Can climate adaptation finance survive denialist governments? Lessons from Brazil	16
Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance	15
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	15
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	15
Artificial Intelligence: facilitator or destroyer of carbon neutrality? Evidence from China	15
A framework-based assessment of climate adaptation readiness in Romanian cities	15
Weathering storms and policies: the vulnerable voyage of inner Mongolian herders amidst climate and policy shifts	14
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	14
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	14
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations	14
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 Parties	14
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand	14
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	14
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	14
Surveying just transition pathways in global climate policy	14
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	13
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards	13
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage	13
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations	13
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support	13
Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India	13
Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 2020	13
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal	13
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations	13
Can government environmental auditing promote local low-carbon innovation? Evidence from China	13
Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa	13
Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement?	13
Nordic net-zero: counterbalancing residual emissions in the context of unevenly distributed BECCS potentials	13
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China	13
How did local governments respond to the carbon emissions trading system? Evidence from China’s land allocation for high-tech industries	13
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy	13
Cherry-picking climate science: how is the GST technical dialogue reflected in the final GST outcome?	12
Mobilizing carbon dioxide removals (CDR): getting the policies right	12
Climate finance in developing countries: green budget tagging and resource mobilization	12
Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation	12
Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S.	12
State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States	12
Facing climate change together? The role of the collective dimension in mediating cash transfer effects on climate adaptation	12
The influence of climate change vulnerability on gender inequality: evidence from international comparisons	11
Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes	11
Timing matters: analyzing climate policies and adaptive resilience	11
The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition	11
Rethinking carbon dioxide removal: a justice-centred analysis of CDR perspectives research	11
International cooperation for the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries: unlocking the full potential	11
Regional variability and its impact on the decarbonization of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries in Canada	11
Comparing electricity policies between the primary and tertiary needs: the need for distributive justice within the energy transition	11
Inflation, public attention allocation, and psychological distance to climate change	11
Gender, vulnerability, and power in Indonesia’s climate policies	11
Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation	11
Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China's energy transition	11
Addressing risks to mental health from climate change: a policy capacity analysis of England	11
Empowering change: implementation of civil society climate actions in Southeast Asia	11
Integration of Short-Lived Climate Pollutant and air pollutant mitigation in nationally determined contributions	11