2010 Research Prospectus
Our current work program is structured around the following main themes.
International Mitigation Issues
- Interpreting and comparing post-Copenhagen mitigation targets and mechanisms
- Is there a case for the EU moving beyond 20% GHG cuts by 2020?
- Institutional framework for the global carbon market: options and implications
Competitiveness Impacts of Carbon Pricing and the Potential for Leakage
- International industry competitiveness, carbon leakage, and approaches to carbon pricing – an analysis of the key sectors
- International sectoral approaches and agreements: focus on the steel sector
Low Carbon Development
- Carbon pricing for low carbon investment
- Decarbonisation of the power sector
- Climate innovation centres
Finance and Adaptation
- Linking public finance and market mechanisms in the post-2012 climate regime
- Governance of climate change funding from international maritime transport and international aviation
Cross-cutting collaborating projects - Climate Strategies and its network of academics act as contributor
- Coping with complexity in the evolving international climate policy institutional architecture
For more detail please see the project's website.
Please see 2010 Research Portfolio for more information.
2009 Research Prospectus
Industrialised country commitments and global market mechanisms
Building on our established expertise, these projects focused on understanding the present operation of the international system, particularly the commitments and mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, but they also included analyses of the system beyond 2012.
- Tackling leakage in a world of unequal carbon prices
- Linking among emissions trading schemes and with offset projects
- Global carbon market institutions
- Climate policy, allocation and industrial competitiveness: Ten lessons from the EU ETS
- Ten (plus one) insights from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme: with reference to emerging systems in Asia
Global engagement, technology and finance
This year, Climate Strategies was expanding its portfolio to engage directly on key dimensions of the Bali Action Plan outside of the carbon market issues, with projects on other ways of engaging with and assisting policy developments in developing countries, and work on technology and financing issues.
- International support for domestic action
- The Reformed Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC
- CDM in the post 2012 climate regime
- Analytic support to target-based negotiations
- Climate innovation centres
Industries and sectors
Building on our previous competitiveness work, the sectoral approaches projects focus on international sectoral agreements aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- Sectoral Approaches and Agreements: Steel Sector in India, Japan and China
- International industry competitiveness study
Please see 2009 Research Prospectus and a summary of completed projects in 2009 for more information.
2008 Research Prospectus
Industrialised countries
- The Role of Auctions for Emissions Trading
- Agriculture and Forestry in Annex 1 Countries
- Linkages among Emissions Trading Schemes and with offset projects
- Tackling Leakage in a world of unequal carbon prices
- Green Investment Schemes: Maximizing their benefits to the climate and society
Developing countries
- The Clean Development Mechanism in the post-2012 Climate Change Regime
- International support for domestic climate policy
Synthesis into a broader political agreement
- International Climate Change Policy: Options for the G8
Please see 2008 Research Prospectus and list of 2008 research publications for more information.
2007 Research Prospectus
East West Investments
- Green Investment Scheme
- Joint Implementation
EU Emissions Trading
- Auctioning roles and modalities
- Differentiation and dynamics of competitiveness impacts
- International linkages between trading schemes
- Leakage issues
- National Allocation Plan 2 Analysis
The Clean Development Mechanism
Please see 2007 Research Prospectus for more information.
