Climate economics & climate policy

SEI does extensive research on international and national-level climate policy, issues in the UNFCCC negotiations, and the economics of climate change.

Below are some of our most important recent publications on this topic – all available free of charge, directly from SEI or on an external site. Click on the menu on the right for additional items published as journal articles or book chapters.

• Comparison of Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 pledges under the Cancun Agreements (2011 policy brief)

• Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st Century (2011 report)

• Together Alone: BASIC countries and the climate change conundrum (2011 report)

• Comparison of Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 pledges under the Cancun Agreements (2011 working paper)

• Climate Economics: The State of the Art (2011 report)

• Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the Social Cost of Carbon (2011 report)

• Accounting for Risk and Uncertainty in Climate Policy Assessment (2011 UNEP MCA4climate guidance)

• Developing Baselines for Climate Policy Analysis (2011 UNEP MCA4climate guidance)

• Which Countries are Particularly Vulnerable? Science Doesn’t Have the Answer! (2010 policy brief)

• CRED: A New Model of Climate and Development (2010 report)

• The Economics of 350 (2010 free-access journal article, based on a larger 2009 report)

• AdaptCost Project: Analysis of the Economic Costs of Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (2010 project report)

• The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World: The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework (2008 report)