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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(Not so) Gently down the stream: river pollution and health in Indonesia
Waterborne diseases are the leading cause of mortality in developing countries. The paper emphasize a previously ignored cause of diarrhea - upstream river bathing. Using newly constructed data on upstream-downstream
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Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: an agent-based model approach
Flooding is the costliest natural disaster worldwide. In the UK flooding is listed as a major risk on the National Risk Register with surface water flooding the most likely cause of damage to properties.
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Beyond the targets: assessing the political credibility of pledges for the Paris Agreement
Countries, including members of the G20, should strengthen the credibility of their pledges to limit or reduce annual emissions of greenhouse gases in order to build confidence in the Paris Agreement on
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Green growth and the new industrial revolution
The green growth transition will be large, system-wide and structural. In other words, a new industrial revolution. This will require new green growth policies that foster economic growth and development
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Climate change policy, innovation and growth
Countries should set targets to increase public investment in low-carbon research and development (R&D) slowly and steadily beyond 2020, according to a report published by the Grantham Research Institute
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Climate change adaptation in dynamic economies: the cases of Colombia and West Bengal
This policy brief explores the implications of dynamic economic development for adaptation to climate change. Policy lessons are derived from two case studies, the country of Colombia and the Indian state
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Coping with climate risk: the role of institutions, governance and finance in private adaptation decisions of the poor
This paper looks at adaptation from the point of view of households. It asks how political and economic institutions may affect – help or hinder – these adaptation decisions. Climate change represents
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China’s “new normal”: structural change, better growth, and peak emissions
China’s economy is undergoing a major structural transformation towards a new development model focused on achieving better quality growth that is more economically and environmentally sustainable, and
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Invention and diffusion of water supply and water efficiency technologies: insights from a global patent dataset
This paper identifies over 50 000 patents filed worldwide in various water-related technologies between 1990 and 2010, distinguishing between those related to availability (supply) and conservation (demand)
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Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities
Exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities’) across the globe and employ a city-fixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005