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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	179
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	139
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate	106
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	105
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	78
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	56
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	51
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	51
Air travel and carbon emissions: global evidence and a UK policy evaluation	50
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	50
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	50
Access and meaningful participation of non-state actors in the UNFCCC process: path-dependencies in the era of ‘mega-COPs’	49
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	45
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	45
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	44
Questioning Net Zero: a case study of the UK’s national press coverage	42
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	41
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	37
Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions	37
Determinants of firms’ acceptability of carbon taxation: a systematic literature review	34
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	34
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	33
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	31
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	31

Assessment of existing datasets for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (and beyond)	30
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	29
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?	29
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	29
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture	28
Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review	28
Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia	28
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	27
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	27
Climate finance as a catalyst for peace	26
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia	26
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	26
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany	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
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	25
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers	24
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices	24
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation	24
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	24
The political logic of just transition policies	23
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices	23
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 1995	23
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria	22
Correction	22
The effects of low-carbon transitions on labour productivity: analysing UK electricity, heat, and mobility with a techno-economic simulation model	22
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China	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
The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias	21
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal	21
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe	21
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework	21
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage	20
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey	20
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?	20
Distributional concerns above all? Exploring perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of demand-side push measures in leisure air travel	20
Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy	20
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments	19
Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning	19
Optimal biomass allocation between forestry sinks and energy systems by an integrated modelling approach – decarbonization pathways for Hungary	19
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil	19
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors	19
Battles and settlements in fossil finance: the UK and the making of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP)	19
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys	19
Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making	18
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy	18
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise	18
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	18

An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool	18
Correction	18
From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management	18
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	17
Can climate adaptation finance survive denialist governments? Lessons from Brazil	17
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	17
Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance	16
Assessing the costs of fossil dependency: an integrated model for carbon costs across economic sectors in China and Germany	16
A framework-based assessment of climate adaptation readiness in Romanian cities	16
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	16
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	16
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	16
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	16
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	16
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations	15
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	15
Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)	15
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	15
Weathering storms and policies: the vulnerable voyage of inner Mongolian herders amidst climate and policy shifts	15
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	14
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
Surveying just transition pathways in global climate policy	14
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand	14
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective	14
How did local governments respond to the carbon emissions trading system? Evidence from China’s land allocation for high-tech industries	14
Nordic net-zero: counterbalancing residual emissions in the context of unevenly distributed BECCS potentials	13
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support	13
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China	13
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards	13
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations	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
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal	13
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	13
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy	13
Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 2020	13
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage	12
Cherry-picking climate science: how is the GST technical dialogue reflected in the final GST outcome?	12
Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation	12
The why, what and how of capacity building: some explorations	12
Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement?	12
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	12
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations	12
Facing climate change together? The role of the collective dimension in mediating cash transfer effects on climate adaptation	12
Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China's energy transition	12
Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India	12
Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S.	12
Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation	12
The influence of climate change vulnerability on gender inequality: evidence from international comparisons	12
Climate finance in developing countries: green budget tagging and resource mobilization	11
Rethinking carbon dioxide removal: a justice-centred analysis of CDR perspectives research	11
Empowering change: implementation of civil society climate actions in Southeast Asia	11
Timing matters: analyzing climate policies and adaptive resilience	11
Comparing electricity policies between the primary and tertiary needs: the need for distributive justice within the energy transition	11
Mobilizing carbon dioxide removals (CDR): getting the policies right	11
Regional variability and its impact on the decarbonization of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries in Canada	11
The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition	11
State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States	11
Addressing risks to mental health from climate change: a policy capacity analysis of England	11
Inflation, public attention allocation, and psychological distance to climate change	11
Gender, vulnerability, and power in Indonesia’s climate policies	11