Policing carbon markets
Carbon markets have emerged in recent decades as one of the most important tools for curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, but they present a number of novel enforcement challenges when compared
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
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Adapting to the impacts of extreme heat on Bangladesh’s labour force
The impact of global warming on the labour force is already evident and is unequally distributed across the world. Global economic inequality is rising due to global warming, with hotter, poorer countries
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Global trends in climate change litigation: 2023 snapshot
This report reviews key global developments in climate change litigation, with a focus on the period May 2022 to May 2023, drawing primarily on the Climate Change Litigation databases maintained by the
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Climate change law in Europe: what do new EU climate laws mean for the courts?
Europe is undergoing an unprecedented shift in the scale and ambition of climate policy following the announcement of the European Green Deal and the passage of the European Climate Law. European legislators
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Just finance India: mobilising investment for a just transition to net zero in India
Ultimately, the net zero transition in India is for the benefit of its people. Therefore, people need to be included in the way the country’s 2070 target is made real through a just transition. Making
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Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run
As the climate is changing, the global economy is adapting. This paper provides a novel method of estimating how much adaptation has taken place historically, how much it has cost, and how much it has
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Finance for climate action: scaling up investment for climate and development
Humanity is at a crossroads - a moment of great risk and great opportunity. One path leads to attractive growth and development; the other to great difficulties and destruction. As shown by each successive
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Global trends in climate change litigation: 2022 snapshot
Climate change litigation continues to grow in importance year-on-year as a way of either advancing or delaying effective action on climate change. In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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The price of indoor air pollution: evidence from risk maps and the housing market
This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. The authors focus on radon, a common indoor air pollutant that is the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. The authors
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Counting carbon or counting coal? Anchoring climate governance in fossil fuel-based accountability frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases, standardised to tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent. The ongoing inadequacy of decarbonisation efforts based on this