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Policy briefs are aimed at a broad readership of decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors, in the UK and overseas, based on research carried out by members of the Institute.

These documents may involve collaborations with other individuals or organisations (such as the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy [CCCEP]| or the Grantham Institute for Climate Change|).

Each brief is reviewed by at least two internal referees from the Institute before being professionally typeset and published.


2012

April

A strategy for restoring confidence and economic growth through green investment and innovation

Dimitri Zenghelis

2011

December

The case for carbon pricing

Alex Bowen

June

The basic economics of low-carbon growth in the UK

Mattia Romani, Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis

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2010

September

Adaptation in the UK: a decision-making process

Nicola Ranger, Antony Millner, Simon Dietz, Sam Fankhauser, Ana Lopez and Giovanni Ruta

August

Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C?

Nicola Ranger, Laila Gohar, Jason Lowe, Alex Bowen and Robert Ward

2009

December

Deciding our future in Copenhagen:  will the world rise to the challenge of climate change?

Nicholas Stern

Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: the science and economics of future paths for global annual emissions

Alex Bowen and Nicola Ranger

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February

An outline of the case for a 'green' stimulus

Alex Bowen, Samuel Fankhauser, Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis

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