"Long-term climate dynamics and impacts from sea level rise to heat stress make the case for much stronger mitigation efforts today" By Sonja van Renssen, in (2019) 9 Nature Climate Change 349-351 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0466-0  

(2018) 8 Nature Climate Change 1037-1043 "Despite the current ambivalence of the United States towards the Paris Agreement, national and local jurisdictions across the globe remain committed, and they are seeking ways to increase the ambition and effectiveness of their climate policies. One way forwards could be limiting the production — not just the consumption …

Continue reading “P Erickson, M Lazarus & G Piggot, “Limiting fossil fuel production as the next big step in climate policy””

Climate Policy (forthcoming) “Global climate change governance has changed substantially in the last decade, with a shift in focus from negotiating globally agreed greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets to nationally determined contributions, as enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. This paper analyses trends in adoption of national climate legislation and strategies, GHG targets, and renewable …

Continue reading “G Iacobuta, “National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update””

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2018.1483885

"Until recently, national bans on fossil fuel-related activities were a taboo subject, but they are now becoming increasingly common. The logic of appropriateness that underpins such bans is key to understanding their normative appeal, and to explaining and predicting their proliferation."

(2018) 8 Nature Climate Change 265https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0130-0

(2017) 26:3 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 220 https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12225

The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) has published its 2018 status report on Emissions Trading Worldwide.

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/12/13/carbon-markets-will-not-help-stop-climate-change/  

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/17/world-demand-for-coal-falls-despite-growth-in-asia?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco  

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/19/fossil-fuels-fall-to-record-low-in-britains-energy-mix-data-shows?CMP=share_btn_tw  

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-50348321?__twitter_impression=true  

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-02/cap-and-trade-california-oil-and-gas-industry  

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco  

Negotiated targets on climate change mitigation are ineffective: States do not seek to exceed their unambitious targets when they could. An obligation of conduct – to do the maximum, based on a standard of due diligence – could be more effective. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/climate-targets-committee-on-climate-change-report

https://www.ft.com/content/c93694c8-3d15-11ea-a01a-bae547046735  

https://theconversation.com/nz-introduces-groundbreaking-zero-carbon-bill-including-targets-for-agricultural-methane-116724  

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-politics-economics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share