OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate Policy is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Passenger transport decarbonization in emerging economies: policy lessons from modelling long-term deep decarbonization pathways	95
Equitable marine carbon dioxide removal: the legal basis for interstate benefit-sharing	92
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	86
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	83
Pilot policies for low-carbon cities in China: a study of the impact on green finance development and energy carbon efficiency	83
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	70
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	47
Implications of the consumption-based accounting for future national emissions budgets	45
Nature to the rescue: past drivers and future potential of the Australian land-based carbon offsets market	44
The geography of avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management offsets: the enduring question of additionality	44
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	43
Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions	43
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	39
Climate policy in an era of polycrisis and opportunities in systems transformations	38
Definitions and accounting of climate finance: between divergence and constructive ambiguity	38
A 10-point plan to scale up renewable energy in the Global South	37
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	37
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	35
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	35
Anticipatory climate policy mix pathways: a framework for ex-ante construction and assessment applied to the road transport sector	34
Bilateral finance organizations and stranded asset risk in coal: the case of Japan	33
A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies	32
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	31
Public debt and intergenerational ethics: how to fund a clean technology ‘Apollo program’?	31
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	27

Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	26
The pending commitment and ongoing political divide on carbon pricing in Japan	26
Leveraging the transport sector to mitigate long-term climate policy costs in China: a behavioural perspective	26
Sharing the decarbonisation effort: getting Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East countries on the road to global carbon neutrality	26
Banks’ climate commitments and credit to carbon-intensive industries: new evidence for France	25
The knowledge politics of capacity building for climate change at the UNFCCC	24
Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai	24
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?	24
Averaging or multi-year accounting? Environmental integrity implications for using international carbon markets in the context of single-year targets	24
Challenges and opportunities for universities in building adaptive capacities for sustainability: lessons from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean	24
A mission perspective on emissions reduction at the city level: the case of Glasgow, Scotland	24
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	23
Multinationals, research and development, and carbon emissions: international evidence	23
Global guidelines, local interpretations: ethnography of climate policy implementation in Mapuche territory, Southern Chile	22
Overcoming misleading carbon footprints in the financial sector	22
Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative	21
The EU ETS to 2030 and beyond: adjusting the cap in light of the 1.5°C target and current energy policies	21
Social justice in the context of climate policy: systematizing the variety of inequality dimensions, social impacts, and justice principles	21
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	21
Scenarios for different ‘Future Indias’: sharpening energy and climate modelling tools	20
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	19
Corporate opposition to climate change disclosure regulation in the United States	18
Carbon farming in India: are the existing projects inclusive, additional, and permanent?	18
Public evaluations of four approaches to ocean-based carbon dioxide removal	17
Climate policy and financial system stability: evidence from Chinese fund markets	17
Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking	17
Beyond fuel: the case for a wider perspective on shipping and climate change	17
Net zero by choice? Oil and gas industry motivations for the energy transition and public policy in Scotland	17
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	16
Turning out the light: criteria for determining the sequencing of countries phasing out oil extraction and the just transition implications	16
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	16
How well are universities adapting to climate change? Insights from Australia	16
Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives	16
The green transition in emerging economies: green bond issuance in Brazil and China	16
Adaptation for whom? Understanding the impacts of dyke policies on small-scale farmers in Ca Mau Province of Vietnam ¹	16
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	15
A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation	15
The politics of phasing out fossil fuels: party positions and voter reactions in Norway	15
CCUS As a second-best choice for China's carbon neutrality: an institutional analysis	15
The policy coordinator role of national development banks in scaling climate finance: Evidence from the renewable energy sector	15
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	14
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	14
Public support for flood adaptation policy in Tokyo lowland areas	14
Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts	14
Designing a macroprudential capital buffer for climate-related risks: an application to transition risk	13
Mainstreaming climate adaptation into urban development projects in the Netherlands: private sector drivers and municipal policy instruments	13
Climate resilience action to policy: embodied community-based climate risk resilience (CBCRR) in drought prone community in Thailand’s economic corridor	13
Correction	13
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	13
The impact of collateral-based monetary policy on green financing cost: an analysis of the People's Bank of China’s approach	12

Gigaton gear – policy insights for scaling up the global deployment of direct air carbon capture and sequestration technology (DACCS)	12
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment	12
Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest	12
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	12
Do climate risks influence foreign direct investment inflows to emerging and developing economies?	12
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	12
Exploring the influence of financial development on climate physical risk: insights from China	11
Governing offshore wind: is an ‘Asia-Pacific Model’ emerging?	11
Evaluating progress on loss and damage: an assessment of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism under the UNFCCC	11
Investor-state dispute settlement: obstructing a just energy transition	11
Will the regime ever break? Assessing socio-political and economic pressures to climate action and European oil majors’ response (2005-2019)	11
Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report	11
The relationship between a ‘polluter pays’ approach to carbon capture, regional policy and ‘just transition’ employment agendas	11
Paradoxes of Norway’s energy transition: controversies and justice	11
A Green Fiscal Pact for the EU: increasing climate investments while consolidating budgets	10
Developing regional voluntary carbon markets for peatlands: innovation processes and influencing factors	10
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective	10
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	10
Snapshot of the Carbon Dioxide Removal certification and standards ecosystem (2021–2022)	10
Revising the EU ETS and CORSIA in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges for reducing global aviation emissions	10
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	10
Public support for phasing out carbon-intensive technologies: the end of the road for conventional cars in Germany?	10
Methodology to analyse the impact of an emissions trading system in Chile	10
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	9
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	9
Carbon border adjustment mechanism: a systematic literature review of the latest developments	9
Quantifying international public finance for climate change adaptation in Africa	9
Farmers’ adaptations strategies towards soil salinity effects in agriculture: the interior coast of Bangladesh	9
Climate policy costs of spatially unbalanced growth in electricity demand: the case of datacentres in Ireland	9
Loss and damage in the global stocktake	9
Going green, growing strong: how climate policy boosts US companies performance	9
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	9
Addressing Biases that impact homeowners’ adoption of solar panels	9
Understanding vulnerability and building resilience in small-scale fisheries: the case of Davao Gulf, Philippines	9