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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate finance policy in practice: a review of the evidence	95
Greening monetary policy	91
An industrial policy framework for transforming energy and emissions intensive industries towards zero emissions	87
Upward-scaling tipping cascades to meet climate goals: plausible grounds for hope	84
Countries with sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions: an analysis of trends and progress by sector	82
Influence of a pilot carbon trading policy on enterprises’ low-carbon innovation in China	80
Designing an effective climate-policy mix: accounting for instrument synergy	78
Assessing the rapidly-emerging landscape of net zero targets	76
Potential implications of carbon dioxide removal for the sustainable development goals	69
Caught in between: credibility and feasibility of the voluntary carbon market post-2020	67
Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation	56
Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa	55
Central banks, financial stability and policy coordination in the age of climate uncertainty: a three-layered analytical and operational framework	52
Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery	45
Smallholder farmers’ engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling	44
Carbon accounting for negative emissions technologies	44
Beyond good intentions, to urgent action: Former UNFCCC leaders take stock of thirty years of international climate change negotiations	44
National ‘fair shares’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the principled framework of international environmental law	44
Towards a post-pandemic policy framework to manage climate-related financial risks and resilience	43
Twenty years of climate policy: G20 coverage and gaps	43
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	39
Modelling the economic effects of COVID-19 and possible green recovery plans: a post-Keynesian approach	37
Climate clubs: politically feasible and desirable?	36
Climate change and central banks: what role for monetary policy?	35
A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation	35

Glass half full or glass half empty?: the 2021 Glasgow Climate Conference	34
How green primary iron production in South Africa could help global decarbonization	33
Toward Indigenous visions of nature-based solutions: an exploration into Canadian federal climate policy	33
Quantifying international public finance for climate change adaptation in Africa	32
Bots and online climate discourses: Twitter discourse on President Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement	31
Carbon pricing and COVID-19	31
A classification framework for carbon tax revenue use	31
Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions	31
Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?	31
Governing sustainable finance: insights from Indonesia	27
A blockchain-based emissions trading system for the road transport sector: policy design and evaluation	26
Biodiversity loss and climate change interactions: financial stability implications for central banks and financial supervisors	26
CCUS As a second-best choice for China's carbon neutrality: an institutional analysis	26
REDD+ and leakage: debunking myths and promoting integrated solutions	26
Border carbon adjustments and industrial competitiveness in a European Green Deal	25
Drivers of global and national CO₂ emissions changes 2000–2017	25
Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment	24
A green COVID-19 recovery of the EU basic materials sector: identifying potentials, barriers and policy solutions	24
The urgent case for stronger climate targets for international shipping	24
Central bank collateral as a green monetary policy instrument	24
Building local capacity to adapt to climate change	24
Farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for climate-smart agricultural technologies on rice production in Nigeria	24
The green climate fund and its shortcomings in local delivery of adaptation finance	23
Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019)	23
Evaluating regional carbon emissions trading in China: effects, pathways, co-benefits, spillovers, and prospects	23
What matters for private investment in renewable energy?	22
Climate justice and rights-based litigation in a post-Paris world	22
Building institutional capacity for addressing climate and sustainable development goals: achieving energy efficiency in India	22
A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies	22
Balancing cost and justice concerns in the energy transition: comparing coal phase-out policies in Germany and the UK	21
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	21
Global adaptation governance: how intergovernmental organizations mainstream climate change adaptation	21
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	21
Taming the Green Swan: a criteria-based analysis to improve the understanding of climate-related financial risk assessment tools	20
Disaster management leadership and policy making: a critical examination of communitarian and individualistic understandings of resilience and vulnerability	19
Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach	19
A new way forward for ocean-climate policy as reflected in the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue submissions	19
Greenhouse gas emission budgets and policies for zero-Carbon road transport in Europe	18
Impact of regulatory policies on green bond issuances in China: policy lessons from a top-down approach	18
Pricing carbon effectively: a pathway for higher climate change ambition	17
The EU ETS to 2030 and beyond: adjusting the cap in light of the 1.5°C target and current energy policies	17
Climate justice: priorities for equitable recovery from the pandemic	17
Assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation pathways for Thailand towards achievement of the 2°C and 1.5°C Paris Agreement targets	16
Snapshot of the Carbon Dioxide Removal certification and standards ecosystem (2021–2022)	16
Climate Change Acts in Scotland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden: the role of discourse and deliberation	16
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?	16
Sweden’s Climate Act – its origin and emergence	16
Accelerating the speed and scale of climate finance in the post-pandemic context	15
Idealism, pragmatism, and the power of compromise in the negotiation of New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act	15
Beyond shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and representative concentration pathways (RCPs): climate policy implementation scenarios for Europe, the US and China	15

Leader on paper, laggard in practice: policy fragmentation and the multi-level paralysis in implementation of the Mexican Climate Act	15
Ecosystem-based adaptation to address urbanization and climate change challenges: the case of China’s sponge city initiative	15
Scenarios for mitigating CO₂ emissions from energy supply in the absence of CO₂ removal	14
Revising the EU ETS and CORSIA in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges for reducing global aviation emissions	14
Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target	14
COVID-19 recovery and climate policy	14
Acceptance of climate-oriented policy measures under the COVID-19 crisis: an empirical analysis for Germany	13
Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies	13
Paradoxes of Norway’s energy transition: controversies and justice	13
Social Engagement with climate change: principles for effective visual representation on social media	13
Industrial clustering as a barrier and an enabler for deep emission reduction: a case study of a Dutch chemical cluster	13
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment	13
Performing accountability: face-to-face account-giving in multilateral climate transparency processes	13
Has the international climate regime promoted climate justice? Evidence from Clean Development Mechanism projects in China	13
Climate Change Acts: Origins, Dynamics, and Consequences	13
Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications	13
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	12
Exploring low-carbon pilot city policy implementation: evidence from China	12
The influence of climate change advisory bodies on political debates: evidence from the UK Committee on Climate Change	12
Definitions and accounting of climate finance: between divergence and constructive ambiguity	12
Capacity building for climate transparency: neutral ‘means of implementation’ or generating political effects?	12
Concept of climate-charged airspaces: a potential policy instrument for internalizing aviation's climate impact of non-CO₂ effects	12
Greening monetary policy: evidence from the People’s Bank of China	12
Towards net-zero emissions concrete and steel in India, Brazil and South Africa	11
Meaning-making in a context of climate change: supporting agency and political engagement	11
Farmers’ adaptations strategies towards soil salinity effects in agriculture: the interior coast of Bangladesh	11
Tackling the implementation gap of climate adaptation strategies: understanding policy translation in Brazil and Colombia	11
How does climate change adaptation policy in India consider gender? An analysis of 28 state action plans	11
Banks’ climate commitments and credit to carbon-intensive industries: new evidence for France	11
Whose jobs face transition risk in Alberta? Understanding sectoral employment precarity in an oil-rich Canadian province	11
Carbon border adjustment mechanism: a systematic literature review of the latest developments	11
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	11