Climate mitigation policies and the potential pathways to conflict: Outlining a research agenda

Linking climate policies to advance global mitigation.

T he November 2017 negotiations in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) validated that the Paris Agreement has met one of two necessary conditions for success. By achieving broad participation, including 195 countries, accounting for 99% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (1), the agreement dramatically improves on the 14%...

Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation

We assess different policies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions and promoting the innovation and diffusion of renewable energy. We evaluate the relative performance of policies according to incentives provided for emissions reduction, efficiency, and other outcomes. We also assess how the nature of technological progress—whether it occurs through learning by doing or R&D investment, and the ...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Supply Chain Risk Management: Outlining an Agenda for Future Research

In recent years the issue of supply chain risk has been pushed to the fore, initially by fears related to possible disruptions from the much publicised ‘millennium bug’. Y2K passed seemingly without incident, though the widespread disruptions caused by fuel protests and then Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK, and by terrorist attacks on the USA have underlined the vulnerability of modern supply ...

The economics of nuclear power and climate change mitigation policies

The events of March 2011 at the nuclear power complex in Fukushima, Japan, raised questions about the safe operation of nuclear power plants with early retirement of existing nuclear power plants being debated in the policy arena and considered by regulators. Also the future of building new nuclear power plants is highly uncertain. Should nuclear power policies become more restrictive, one pote...