Past Research Prospectus

2011

Transformative investment: infrastructure, innovation and technology cooperation

  • Technology collaboration in international climate policy – towards low-carbon country coalitions 
  • Decarbonising the European Power sector 

Carbon pricing and competitiveness in a world of evolving participation

  • International industry competitiveness and carbon leakage 
  • Institutional framework for regional carbon pricing systems and linkages

International engagement and finance for mitigation and adaptation

  • Is there a case for the EU moving beyond 20% GHG cuts by 2020
  • Living Standards and Economic Performance with Ambitious Climate Action
  • Governance of climate change funding from international maritime transport
  • Linking public finance and market mechanisms to leverage private funds in the post-2012 climate regime     

Please see our 2011 Research Prospectus for more information.

2010 

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
  • Improving the UNFCCC Process

Competitiveness Impacts of Carbon Pricing and the Potential for Leakage

  • International industry competitiveness, carbon leakage, and approaches to carbon pricing 
  • 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 to leverage private funds in the post-2012 climate regime 
  • Governance of climate change funding from international maritime transport 

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 website.       
  • Study on Living Standards and Economic Performance with Ambitious Climate Action   

Please see our 2010 Research Prospectus and a summary of completed projects in 2010 for more information.

2009 

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 our 2009 Research Prospectus and a summary of completed projects in 2009 for more information.

2008 

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 our 2008 Research Prospectus and a list of  2008 research publications for more information.

2007 

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 our 2007 Research Prospectus for more information.

 

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