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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Passenger transport decarbonization in emerging economies: policy lessons from modelling long-term deep decarbonization pathways	100
Equitable marine carbon dioxide removal: the legal basis for interstate benefit-sharing	93
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	92
The politics of phasing out fossil fuels: party positions and voter reactions in Norway	90
Pilot policies for low-carbon cities in China: a study of the impact on green finance development and energy carbon efficiency	89
Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts	70
Designing a macroprudential capital buffer for climate-related risks: an application to transition risk	54
How to govern carbon dioxide removal: an assessment framework for policy instruments	53
Human rights and the Warsaw International Mechanism: an interdisciplinary approach to overcome a financial gridlock	51
Can conditional cash transfers reduce vulnerability to climate change?	49
Nature to the rescue: past drivers and future potential of the Australian land-based carbon offsets market	44
Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions	43
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	43
Definitions and accounting of climate finance: between divergence and constructive ambiguity	39
Carbon taxes and agriculture: the benefit of a multilateral agreement	39
A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island	37
Climate policy in an era of polycrisis and opportunities in systems transformations	37
Banks’ climate commitments and credit to carbon-intensive industries: new evidence for France	36
A 10-point plan to scale up renewable energy in the Global South	35
Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales	32
A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies	31
Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance	31
Public debt and intergenerational ethics: how to fund a clean technology ‘Apollo program’?	31
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	29
Sharing the decarbonisation effort: getting Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East countries on the road to global carbon neutrality	28

Leading by example: spillover effects of municipal climate protection leadership on citizens’ climate protection activities	27
A mission perspective on emissions reduction at the city level: the case of Glasgow, Scotland	27
The pending commitment and ongoing political divide on carbon pricing in Japan	27
Correction	27
The knowledge politics of capacity building for climate change at the UNFCCC	26
Averaging or multi-year accounting? Environmental integrity implications for using international carbon markets in the context of single-year targets	26
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?	26
Challenges and opportunities for universities in building adaptive capacities for sustainability: lessons from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean	26
Global guidelines, local interpretations: ethnography of climate policy implementation in Mapuche territory, Southern Chile	25
Multinationals, research and development, and carbon emissions: international evidence	25
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	24
Overcoming misleading carbon footprints in the financial sector	24
Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative	23
Social justice in the context of climate policy: systematizing the variety of inequality dimensions, social impacts, and justice principles	23
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	22
Carbon farming in India: are the existing projects inclusive, additional, and permanent?	22
Public evaluations of four approaches to ocean-based carbon dioxide removal	22
Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food	22
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	21
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	21
Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina	21
The policy coordinator role of national development banks in scaling climate finance: Evidence from the renewable energy sector	20
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	19
Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai	19
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	19
The green transition in emerging economies: green bond issuance in Brazil and China	19
A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation	18
Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking	17
Bilateral finance organizations and stranded asset risk in coal: the case of Japan	17
Implications of the consumption-based accounting for future national emissions budgets	17
Scenarios for different ‘Future Indias’: sharpening energy and climate modelling tools	17
Beyond fuel: the case for a wider perspective on shipping and climate change	16
Turning out the light: criteria for determining the sequencing of countries phasing out oil extraction and the just transition implications	16
Adaptation for whom? Understanding the impacts of dyke policies on small-scale farmers in Ca Mau Province of Vietnam ¹	16
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	16
Net zero by choice? Oil and gas industry motivations for the energy transition and public policy in Scotland	16
Climate policy and financial system stability: evidence from Chinese fund markets	16
How well are universities adapting to climate change? Insights from Australia	16
How are climate policies assessed in emerging economies? A study of ex-ante policy appraisal in Brazil, China, and India	15
Corporate opposition to climate change disclosure regulation in the United States	15
Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives	15
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	15
Public support for flood adaptation policy in Tokyo lowland areas	15
CCUS As a second-best choice for China's carbon neutrality: an institutional analysis	15
Climate resilience action to policy: embodied community-based climate risk resilience (CBCRR) in drought prone community in Thailand’s economic corridor	15
The geography of avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management offsets: the enduring question of additionality	14
Mainstreaming climate adaptation into urban development projects in the Netherlands: private sector drivers and municipal policy instruments	14
Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest	14
Anticipatory climate policy mix pathways: a framework for ex-ante construction and assessment applied to the road transport sector	14
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	14

Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report	13
Methodology to analyse the impact of an emissions trading system in Chile	13
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	13
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	13
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	13
Developing regional voluntary carbon markets for peatlands: innovation processes and influencing factors	12
A Green Fiscal Pact for the EU: increasing climate investments while consolidating budgets	12
Will the regime ever break? Assessing socio-political and economic pressures to climate action and European oil majors’ response (2005-2019)	12
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	12
Revising the EU ETS and CORSIA in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges for reducing global aviation emissions	12
The relationship between a ‘polluter pays’ approach to carbon capture, regional policy and ‘just transition’ employment agendas	12
Public support for phasing out carbon-intensive technologies: the end of the road for conventional cars in Germany?	12
Evaluating the enhancement of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of developing countries: an international support programme perspective	12
The social acceptability of a personal carbon allowance: a discrete choice experiment in Belgium	12
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	11
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	11
Nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Paris Agreement goals: transparency in communications from developing country Parties	11
Going green, growing strong: how climate policy boosts US companies performance	11
Farmers’ adaptations strategies towards soil salinity effects in agriculture: the interior coast of Bangladesh	11
What drives adaptive behaviours during heatwaves? A systematic review with a meta-analysis	11
Quantifying international public finance for climate change adaptation in Africa	11
Evaluating long-term low emission development strategies and implications for the remaining global carbon budget	11
Concept of climate-charged airspaces: a potential policy instrument for internalizing aviation's climate impact of non-CO₂ effects	10
Loss and damage in the global stocktake	10
Addressing Biases that impact homeowners’ adoption of solar panels	10
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment	10
Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications	10
Supportive governance for city-scale low carbon building retrofits: a case study from Shanghai	10
A right to pollute versus a duty to mitigate: on the basis of emissions trading and carbon markets	10
Network structures, environmental technology and contagion	10
Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa	10
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	10
Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019)	10
Investor-state dispute settlement: obstructing a just energy transition	9
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	9
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	9
Snapshot of the Carbon Dioxide Removal certification and standards ecosystem (2021–2022)	9
National GHG inventory capacity in developing countries – a global assessment of progress	9
Evaluating progress on loss and damage: an assessment of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism under the UNFCCC	9
Contribution of carbon pricing to meeting a mid-century net zero target	9
Carbon border adjustment mechanism: a systematic literature review of the latest developments	9