Economic models and frameworks to guide climate policy

Hepburn, C., Ives, M. C., Loni, S., Mealy, P., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Farmer, J. D., Stern, N., & Stiglitz, J. (2025), ‘Economic models and frameworks to guide climate policy’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy Reaching net-zero emissions will involve a structural transformation of the global economy. The transition is complicated by deep uncertainty about the new […]

Balancing simplicity and complexity through corporate emissions benchmarking

Saphira Rekker, Kaya Axelsson, Anders Bjørn, Chris Greig, Richard Heede, Matthew J. Hornsey, Jacquelyn E. Humphrey, Matthew Ives, David Kampmann, Mark Roelfsema, Adrien Rose, Sue-Lyn Stubbs & Belinda Wade, Nature Climate Change 2025 Standardized quantitative emissions benchmarking is essential for corporate climate accountability, yet recent literature has critiqued this approach. We argue for structured pluralism […]

Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition

Way, R., Ives, M.C., Mealy, P., & Farmer, J. D. (2022). Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition, Joule Abstract Rapidly decarbonizing the global energy system is critical for addressing climate change, but concerns about costs have been a barrier to implementation. Most energy-economy models have historically underestimated deployment rates for renewable energy technologies and overestimated their costs. […]