In the face of a massive financing gap for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, everyone accepts the need for more "creative" measures to unlock and redirect private capital. But proposals like carbon credits must be understood merely as stepping stones, rather than as lasting solutions.
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Sharm El-Sheikh
Kampala, Uganda
By Sarah Dawood
Four ways to improve UN climate conferences
Uni Graz
The second-biggest economy’s new 2060 target could be a game changer if concrete policies follow.
LSE Grantham Policy Brief
Climate policy requires a balance of bottom-up and top-down approaches
Climate Shock soon available in several languages
An economists' take on how to combat climate change
by Richie Ahuja, Jonathan Camuzeaux, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner
Columbia University
In honor of the 2014 Upton Scholar Robert N. Stavins
Advancing International Climate Change Cooperation
Fatal flaws in Lord Monckton's "analysis"
Follow the Plastic Bag Example
The climate problem, twice over: Seven billion "free riders," meet the "free drivers" of geoengineering.