Reports

Best practice through interdisciplinarity for researching global environmental challenges

This report summarises effective efforts and best practice for growing interdisciplinary research to address global challenges. The document begins with the main governance and organisational challenges with interdisciplinary research, then capacity building, approach to funding issues, and finally communication and engagement. Our method is a narrative review of academic and grey literature, supplemented by interviews with selected current and former centre Directors working in the climate and interdisciplinary policy relevant research space.

Shipping and the Paris climate agreement: a focus on committed emission

The concept of “committed emissions” allows us to understand what proportion of the Paris-constrained and rapidly diminishing global carbon dioxide (CO2) budget is potentially taken up by existing infrastructure. Here, this concept is applied to international shipping, where long-lived assets increase the likelihood for high levels of committed emissions. To date, committed emissions studies have focussed predominantly on the power sector, or on global analyses in which shipping is a small element, with assumptions of asset lifetimes extrapolated from other transport modes.

Foundations for climate resilient and sustainable growing settlements (U-RES)

URES project was for the duration of 2017

Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires

We undertook a Rapid Response Review on the link between climate change and fire risk. 57 scientific articles were gathered and evaluated using ScienceBrief.

Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change

A literature review focused on assets, human vulnerability, resilience and adaptation drawing on the disciplinary fields of health, sociology, disaster science and environmental science is presented in this paper.

Has US Shale Gas Reduced CO2 Emissions?

This report examines the emissions savings in the US power sector, influenced by shale gas, and the concurrent trends in coal exports that may increase emissions in Europe and Asia.

Has US Shale Gas Reduced CO2 Emissions?

Since 2007, the production of shale gas in large volumes has substantially reduced the wholesale price of natural gas in the US. This report examines the emissions savings in the US power sector, influenced by shale gas, and the concurrent trends in coal exports that may increase emissions in Europe and Asia.

The global-scale impacts of climate change: QUEST-GSI (project completed)

The key aim of QUEST-GSI is to better quantify the impacts of climate change in a consistent way across the entire globe, and for a range of sectors such as: water resources, flooding, crops and human health.

Exploring the Measurement of Sustainable Development in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

This paper explores the consistency of a proposed method of measuring sustainable development in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), with particular reference to the Gold Standard, a premium CDM label.

Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Case Study of Mombasa, Kenya

This GIS-based study provides a first quantitative estimate, both now and through the 21st Century, of the number of people and associated economic assets potentially exposed to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise and storm surges in Mombasa.

Is Economic Volatility Detrimental to Global Sustainability?

This paper examines the effects of economic volatility on global sustainability in a dynamic panel data model allowing for error cross section dependence.

An Inventory of Adaptation to climate change in the UK: challenges and findings

The message has been that the climate is changing and people need to be prepared. However, while there has been an increasing investment in the ‘science of adaptation’, there has been less, if any, attention paid to the ‘practice of adaptation’, i.e. is adaptation occurring, and if so, how, where and why?

A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities

This paper reviews the potential impacts of climate change on cities and the challenges faced by city planners to manage these risks.

Renewable Energy Scenarios for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This paper presents a set of renewable energy scenarios for the currently oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Personal Carbon Trading: a critical examination of proposals for the UK

The paper first discusses the origins and development of the PCT ideas, identifies key players and proponents of the proposals, and examines their economic bases

Does Geography Matter for the Clean Development Mechanism?

This research suggests that CDM credit flows in a country are positively affected by those in its neighbouring countries

Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - Melbourne

This working paper contributes to the research of the Tyndall Centre programme 1 by focusing on a group of non nation-state actors - global cities – and their role in climate governance.

Transitions for the People: Theory and Practice of ‘Transition’ and ‘Resilience’ in the UK’s Transition Movement

This paper presents an exploratory case study of a new community-led sustainability initiative in the UK called the Transition movement.

Carbon Capability: what does it mean, how prevalent is it, and how can we promote it?

This Working Paper introduces the concept of ‘carbon capability’, provides initial empirical evidence of levels of carbon capability amongst the UK public, and suggests ways in which carbon capability might be promoted.

The Clean Development Mechanism and Sustainable Development: A Panel Data Analysis

It offers ample recommendation for improving CDM development and serves to encourage the developing countries to strengthen their national capacity to effectively access the CDM for their sustainable development objectives.

World economic dynamics and technological change: projecting interactions between economic output and CO2 emissions

We investigate not only the historical dynamics of the world economic system, but also project likely long-term changes in the structure of economic output across economies, and assess co-movements between economic activities and greenhouse gas emissions, with an emphasis on the role of endogenous technological change.

Allocating emissions rights: Are equal shares, fair shares?

The paper finds that there is little support within the literature for the notion that the atmosphere or emissions sinks are a commons, at least in the (implicit) sense that non-philosophers use the word.

Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - London

This working paper contributes to the research of the Tyndall Centre programme 1 by focusing on a group of non nation-state actors - global cities – and their role in climate governance.

An Integrated Assessment of the Potential for Change in Storm Activity over Europe: Implications for Insurance and Forestry in the UK

The objective of this Tyndall Centre Theme 3 research is to assess the implications of future European windstorm activity for the forestry and insurance industries in the UK.

The Economics of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

I argue that equilibrium economics fails to provide an adequate and coherent explanation of why human behaviour is leading to climate change (via economic choices and the use of the atmosphere as free waste waste disposal) with the aim of guiding climate policy.

Best practice through interdisciplinarity for researching global environmental challenges

Shipping and the Paris climate agreement: a focus on committed emission

Foundations for climate resilient and sustainable growing settlements (U-RES)

Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires

Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change

Has US Shale Gas Reduced CO2 Emissions?

Has US Shale Gas Reduced CO2 Emissions?

The global-scale impacts of climate change: QUEST-GSI (project completed)

Exploring the Measurement of Sustainable Development in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Case Study of Mombasa, Kenya

Is Economic Volatility Detrimental to Global Sustainability?

An Inventory of Adaptation to climate change in the UK: challenges and findings

A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities

Renewable Energy Scenarios for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Personal Carbon Trading: a critical examination of proposals for the UK

Does Geography Matter for the Clean Development Mechanism?

Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - Melbourne

Transitions for the People: Theory and Practice of ‘Transition’ and ‘Resilience’ in the UK’s Transition Movement

Carbon Capability: what does it mean, how prevalent is it, and how can we promote it?

The Clean Development Mechanism and Sustainable Development: A Panel Data Analysis

World economic dynamics and technological change: projecting interactions between economic output and CO2 emissions

Allocating emissions rights: Are equal shares, fair shares?

Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - London

An Integrated Assessment of the Potential for Change in Storm Activity over Europe: Implications for Insurance and Forestry in the UK

The Economics of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

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A blueprint for integrated assessment of climate change

Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities, Case-Study: Los Angeles

How do regulated and voluntary carbon-offset schemes compare?

Assessing common(s) arguments for an equal per capita allocation