Welcome to Climate Strategies

In its rapid development to date, Climate Strategies has already made significant impact on the development of international policy responses to climate change. Our work on allocation issues in the EU ETS (the focus of our initial trial project in 2006), informed by our unique blend of internationally networked research engaging with relevant decision processes, provided crucial input to the EC decisions on Phase II allocation.
Our 2007 research projects provided important input to both the design proposals for the post 2012 EU ETS, and to the wider debate about competitiveness and carbon leakage. The results of our assessment of the international Kyoto project mechanisms will be published shortly. Climate Strategies’ research programme for 2008 reflected the rapidly expanding intellectual scope and international reach of our activities. In line with our 3-year development plan, we have moved firmly into the terrain of global, post-2012 design issues, building upon the base established by our earlier research.

2009 principal projects focused on the assessment of the international Kyoto project mechanisms, linking of emissions trading schemes and implications and design of international support mechanisms and cooperation necessary to move to a low carbon development trajectory. Our 2009 research on greenhouse gas leakage underlines the need to consider specific sector characteristics in developing potential solutions to tackle carbon leakage, and identifies cement as a particularly interesting case.
We also focus on the Reformed Financial Mechanism of the current international climate change negotiations and international competitiveness of high energy-intensive sectors. Further research on sector-specific approaches in the steel sector and on climate innovation centres is under way.