OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate Policy is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate	205
Closing the ambition gap: Germany's energy transition in line with a 1.5ˆC carbon budget	158
Access and meaningful participation of non-state actors in the UNFCCC process: path-dependencies in the era of ‘mega-COPs’	125
Air travel and carbon emissions: global evidence and a UK policy evaluation	118
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	63
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	58
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	57
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	56
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	55
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	54
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	52
Questioning Net Zero: a case study of the UK’s national press coverage	49
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	49
Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions	48
Determinants of firms’ acceptability of carbon taxation: a systematic literature review	47
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	47
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	39
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	39
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	38
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	36
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	34
Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review	34
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	33
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	33
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture	31

Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?	31
Assessment of existing datasets for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (and beyond)	31
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia	30
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	30
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	30
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	30
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	29
Climate finance as a catalyst for peace	29
Turning reparations lessons into insights for the fund for responding to loss and damage	28
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	28
Should public institutions adopt plant-based diets? Climate duties and shared leadership	28
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany	28
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation	27
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 1995	27
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices	27
The political logic of just transition policies	27
Correction	26
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices	26
Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust	26
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers	26
A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities	25
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe	25
The effects of low-carbon transitions on labour productivity: analysing UK electricity, heat, and mobility with a techno-economic simulation model	24
Multi-level climate governance: examining impacts and interactions between national and sub-national emissions mitigation policy mixes in Canada	24
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China	24
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework	24
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria	24
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys	23
Optimal biomass allocation between forestry sinks and energy systems by an integrated modelling approach – decarbonization pathways for Hungary	23
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors	23
Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning	23
Help or hindrance? Subsidies by local governments in response to China’s green credit policy	23
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise	22
From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management	22
Battles and settlements in fossil finance: the UK and the making of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP)	21
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage	21
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments	21
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy	21
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil	21
Distributional concerns above all? Exploring perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of demand-side push measures in leisure air travel	21
An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool	21
Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making	20
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?	20
Correction	19
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	18
Assessing the costs of fossil dependency: an integrated model for carbon costs across economic sectors in China and Germany	18
Can climate adaptation finance survive denialist governments? Lessons from Brazil	18
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	18
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	18
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	18

Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	18
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	17
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	17
Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance	17
A framework-based assessment of climate adaptation readiness in Romanian cities	17
Artificial Intelligence: facilitator or destroyer of carbon neutrality? Evidence from China	17
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	16
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand	16
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	16
Surveying just transition pathways in global climate policy	16
How did local governments respond to the carbon emissions trading system? Evidence from China’s land allocation for high-tech industries	16
Weathering storms and policies: the vulnerable voyage of inner Mongolian herders amidst climate and policy shifts	16
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	16
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	15
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	15
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China	15
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations	15
Nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Paris Agreement goals: transparency in communications from developing country Parties	15
Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)	15
Can government environmental auditing promote local low-carbon innovation? Evidence from China	15
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support	15
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations	15
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal	15
Nordic net-zero: counterbalancing residual emissions in the context of unevenly distributed BECCS potentials	14
Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement?	14
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards	14
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy	14
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage	14
Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 2020	14
Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa	14
Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India	14
Cap-and-trade frameworks for reducing fossil fuel emissions: insight from Australia’s safeguard mechanism and its impact on the coal sector	14
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations	14
Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation	13
Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation	13
The influence of climate change vulnerability on gender inequality: evidence from international comparisons	13
State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States	13
Mobilizing carbon dioxide removals (CDR): getting the policies right	13
Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S.	13
Cherry-picking climate science: how is the GST technical dialogue reflected in the final GST outcome?	13
Climate finance in developing countries: green budget tagging and resource mobilization	13
Assessing energy justice in climate change policies: an empirical examination of China's energy transition	13
Facing climate change together? The role of the collective dimension in mediating cash transfer effects on climate adaptation	12
Empowering change: implementation of civil society climate actions in Southeast Asia	12
Decarbonization from the ground up: what Local Industrial Decarbonization Plans reveal about place-based approaches to decarbonizing industry in the UK	12
The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition	12
Regional variability and its impact on the decarbonization of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries in Canada	12
Comparing electricity policies between the primary and tertiary needs: the need for distributive justice within the energy transition	12
Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes	12
Rethinking carbon dioxide removal: a justice-centred analysis of CDR perspectives research	12
International cooperation for the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries: unlocking the full potential	12
Inflation, public attention allocation, and psychological distance to climate change	12