Climate Policy Journal

🚨 Delighted to announce our TOP 10 viewed papers published July 2023 - Dec 2024! Congratulations to all the authors 👏 Great range of topics: finance, agriculture, justice, adaptation, democracy, CBAM, shipping, adaptation, China governance... Check out the top 10 below, or at https://lnkd.in/euX9R9NE ⤵️ 🥇 The Green Climate Fund and private sector climate finance in the Global South. Thomas Kalinowski (Ewha Womans University) 🥈 Exploring the democracy-climate nexus: a review of correlations between democracy and climate policy performance. Daniel Lindvall & Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala University) 🥉 Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking. Monica DiLeo (The University of Queensland) #4: A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture. Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Uchook Duangbootsee, Ivan Bimbilovski, Piyathida Thathong & Thanh Mai Ha (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)) #5: Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards. Charlotte Streck (Climate Focus) #6: Shipping in the EU emissions trading system: implications for mitigation, costs and modal split. Jonas Floden, Lars Zetterberg, Anastasia Christodoulou, Rasmus Parsmo, Erik Fridell, Julia Hansson, Johan Rootzén & Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, IVL) #7: China’s climate governance from 2009 to 2019: motivations, instruments, actors, and geopolitics. Xiaoran L., Philipp Pattberg & Oscar Widerberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)) #8: The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: implications on Brazilian energy intensive industries. Sigit Perdana, Marc Vielle, Thais Diniz Oliveira (EPFL) #9: Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa. Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Dr. Diana Reckien, Robbert Biesbroek, Brian Khanyisa Mantlana & Karin Pfeffer (University of Twente) #10: An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool. Rhys Jones, Papaarangi Reid & Alex Macmillan (The University of Auckland)

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: The animal agriculture industry has systematically obstructed campaigns promoting dietary change as a form of individual-level climate action, find Loredana Loy and Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy) 👉 The industry hired scientists to produce industry-friendly emissions reports and challenge individual action, influenced public discourse around dietary change, and created a front group, the Food Facts Coalition, with a mission to defend the industry against ‘anti-cow arguments’ Read more about this unique form of climate obstruction ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Swiss banks have measures at their disposal to achieve net-zero mortgage portfolios by 2050, but potential market disadvantage risks are preventing implementation, finds Mischa Aeschlimann (ETH Zürich) ➡️ Without regulatory interventions, voluntary efforts will not be sufficient to meet climate targets Read more ⬇️

🇮🇳 : Energy literacy intervention with digitally delivered self-paced modules enhances pro-environmental awareness, attitudes and behaviours, offering an effective and efficient mechanism to promote responsible production and consumption of energy, find Dr. Neha Kumari, Chetan Singh Solanki and Avinash Kumar (Energy Swaraj Foundation, Erda Illumine Low Carbon Solutions , Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta). Policymakers should focus on scaling it up🔼 Read more ⬇️

🇰🇷 : Due to high industrial concentration, Saerok Jeong and Eunji Chang (Seoul National University, Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC)) recommend that Korea's Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) scheme be designed to encourage sufficient competition by avoiding setting strict baskets while evaluating bids with various criteria beyond cost-effectiveness Read more ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: 98.8% of installations in the EU Emissions Trading System have complied with regulation, but non-compliance is often not followed by enforcement action, find Raphael Calel, Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Frank Venmans (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Georgetown University) Read more ⬇️

‼️ NEW ISSUE: Issue 3 is out now, with the latest on climate justice, policy mixes, carbon pricing, avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management, climate-related relocation and more🌳 🖋️ Featuring insights from Meng Shen, Mengjia Yang, Linpei Xing, Michaël Aklin, Caleb Gallemore, Andrew Bowsher, Areeb Atheeque, Elias Groff, Jessica Furtado, Kylie Wrigley, Jaime Yallup Farrant, Brad Farrant, Emma-Leigh S., Jason Barrow, Naomi Godden, Lucie O'Sullivan, Aysha Jennath K, Saikat Paul, Heather McDiarmid, Paul Parker, Ida Dokk Smith, Kristine Schi Nordvold, Indra Overland, Tinatin Osmonova, Addisu Lashitew, Youqing MU, Duncan Edmondson, Christian Flachsland, Dr. Nils aus dem Moore, Nicolas Koch, Florian Koller, Henri Gruhl, Johannes Brehm, Senni Määttä, Dr. Moises Covarrubias, Vincent de Gooyert, Rachel Harrington-Abrams, Erica Bower, PhD, Martin C Hänsel, Michael Bauer, Moritz Drupp, Gernot Wagner, Glenn Rudebusch, and Jeroen Barrez Check it out below ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: State-level greenhouse gas emissions reductions would provide significant air quality and public health benefits in New York State, find David Cooley, Hillel Hammer, Caroline H. Watson, James Wilcox and Carl Mas (Abt Global, NYSERDA) ⭐ Benefits include more than 10,000 avoided premature deaths and thousands of avoided hospitalisations and emergency room visits ⭐ Benefits valued at over $100 billion from 2020 to 2050 Read more ⬇️

🪙 Carbon pricing policies (higher carbon taxes and prices of permits in emissions trading systems) have not led to large increases in headline consumer price inflation, finds Richhild Moessner (University of Heidelberg, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)) ⏩ The use of carbon pricing policies to speed up the net zero transition need not be held back by concerns about large overall inflationary effects Read more 👇

New publication "Climate impact auctions: an underused tool for green subsidies in the Global South" by Max Alexander Matthey, Aidan Hollis, Clara Brandi, Georg Kobiela, Benjamin Roth & Magdalene Silberberger in Climate Policy Journal: https://lnkd.in/eDwkXg56 https://lnkd.in/eD2sZD-8 | #ClimateImpactAuctions #ClimatePolicy #GlobalSouth