Climate policy

Supply-side climate policy: the road less taken

SEI working paper

Tainted Fahrvergnügen: What the VW scandal tells us about achieving climate and clean air goals

Perspective / Volkswagen has put the spotlight both on the limitations of environmental policies, and on the perils of trusting corporate emission reduction pledges.

The complementarity and comparability of climate change adaptation and mitigation

Journal article

Has Joint Implementation reduced GHG emissions? Lessons learned for the design of carbon market mechanisms (brief)

SEI brief / This policy brief summarizes a systematic evaluation of the environmental integrity of JI in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, 2008–2012.

Has Joint Implementation reduced GHG emissions? Lessons learned for the design of carbon market mechanisms

SEI working paper / This study systematically evaluates the environmental integrity of Joint Implementation (JI) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

Perverse effects of carbon markets on HFC-23 and SF6 abatement projects in Russia

Journal article / This article examines how the ability to generate additional Joint Implementation credits may have affected waste gas generation at chemical plants in Russia.

Addressing the risk of double counting emission reductions under the UNFCCC

Journal article

Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

Journal article

Will ‘bottom-up’ climate action live up to its promise?

Perspective / As Paris climate agreement pledges fall short of 2°C-level ambition, hopes have built that innovations across sectors will fill the gap. Can they deliver?