OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate Policy is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	108
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	104
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	104
Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai	100
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	97
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	64
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	61
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	59
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	57
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	53
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	50
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	48
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	47
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	47
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	46
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment	43
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	42
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	42
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?	40
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	40
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	40
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	38
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	37
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	35
A green COVID-19 recovery of the EU basic materials sector: identifying potentials, barriers and policy solutions	34

Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review	34
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	34
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	33
Sweden’s Climate Act – its origin and emergence	33
Climate justice for small island developing states: identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage	33
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	32
Navigating climate-resilience: co-benefits and costs of a net zero development pathway in Ethiopia	31
Country ownership in climate finance coordination: a comparative assessment of Kenya and Zambia	31
A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture	30
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	29
Turning reparations lessons into insights for the fund for responding to loss and damage	29
REDD+ and leakage: debunking myths and promoting integrated solutions	29
The appeal of climate program framing depends on climate beliefs: a conjoint survey experiment among US agricultural producers	29
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation	28
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China	28
The political logic of just transition policies	28
A classification framework for carbon tax revenue use	28
Economic and social effectiveness of carbon pricing schemes to meet Brazilian NDC targets	27
What’s on the agenda? UN climate change negotiation agendas since 1995	26
Smallholder farmers’ engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling	25
Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany	25
Introducing auctioning in China’s national carbon market: lessons from international and domestic practices	25
Did Germany reach its 2020 climate targets thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic?	24
Multi-level climate governance: examining impacts and interactions between national and sub-national emissions mitigation policy mixes in Canada	23
Understanding public acceptability of climate policies in Europe	23
Assessing the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes: evidence from China	23
Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal	22
Linking solar geoengineering and emissions reductions: strategically resolving an international climate change policy dilemma	22
The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias	22
Assessing the distributive equity of adaptation finance: a framework	21
Institutional services towards climate action: A case of climate change adaptation of agro-pastoralists in the drylands of Nigeria	20
Convergent evolution: framework climate legislation in Australia	19
Correction	19
Climate policy curves highlight key mitigation choices	19
A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities	19
Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust	19
Climate clubs: politically feasible and desirable?	18
Assessing barriers to the internationalization of China’s certified emission reductions (CCERs): a Delphi survey	18
Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise	17
Climate finance and new multilateral development banks: approaching co-productive dynamics?	17
Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments	17
What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys	17
Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making	17
Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy	17
Global climate policy with differentiated carbon price floors	17
Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil	17
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	16
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	16
From informal to formal governance of solar radiation management	16
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	16

Identifying scenarios for renewable energy development in Iran: the role of collaborative governance	16
An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool	16
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	16
Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage	16
Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	15
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	15
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	15
Correction	15
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	15
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	15
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	15
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	15
CCUS As a second-best choice for China's carbon neutrality: an institutional analysis	15
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	14
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective	14
The paradox of environmental consciousness: dissecting the gap between climate change awareness, environmental concern and policy support	14
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	14
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	14
The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations	14
Carbon stocks and sequestration from small tree patches in grassland landscapes in Aotearoa-New Zealand	14
Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019)	13
Fossil Free Zones: a proposal	13
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	13
Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)	13
Nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Paris Agreement goals: transparency in communications from developing country Parties	13
Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 2020	13
Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy	12
Russia’s expanding adaptation agenda and its limitations	12
Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa	12
Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India	12
Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery	12
A response framework for addressing the risks of climate change for homeless populations	12
The why, what and how of capacity building: some explorations	11
Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China	11
Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement?	11
Assessing the rapidly-emerging landscape of net zero targets	11
Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S.	11
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	11
Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage	11
Building institutional capacity for addressing climate and sustainable development goals: achieving energy efficiency in India	11
Clean at home, polluting abroad: the role of the Chinese financial system’s differential treatment of state-owned and private enterprises	11
Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies	11
Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards	11