Written by Marcin Grajewski,

The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has urged governments worldwide on March 28 to come to the UN summit on climate in September 2019 with concrete plans to boost action against global warming. The call followed the publication and the annual report on climate change by the World Meteorological Organisation, which warned about dire consequences of the continued rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In the same month, hundreds of thousands of students and pupils in 120 countries have tried to draw politicians’ attention to climate change by walking out of classes to stage street protests.
This note brings together commentaries, analyses and studies by major international think tanks and research institutes on climate talks and wider issues relating to climate change. Earlier publications on the issue can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are Thinking’ published in November 2018.
Managing climate risk for a safer future: A new resilience agenda for Europe
E3G, April 2019
Raising and strengthening EU climate ambition: Priorities and options for the next five years
IDDRI, SciencesPo, March 2019
Can Europe create strong energy and climate coalitions?
European Council on Foreign Relations, March 2019
Nach dem Klimagipfel in Kattowitz: Wichtige Elemente der EU-Klimaagenda 2019
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, March 2019
What can the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C tell us about a CCS and CCU agenda for Europe?
Centre for European Policy Studies, March 2019
European energy transition 2030: The big picture
Ecologic Institute, March 2019
The geopolitical implications of the global energy transition
Bruegel, March 2019
Sustainability and internationalism: Driving development in the 21st century
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, March 2019
The case for green realism
Bruegel, March 2019
Legislating for a low carbon and climate resilient transition: Learning from international experiences
Real Instituto Elcano, March 2019
A pathway design framework for national low greenhouse gas emission development strategies
IDDRI, March 2019
Climate change and human rights: Can the courts fix it?
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, March 2019
Carbon pricing options for international maritime emissions
New Climate Institute, March 2019
Fighting climate change with disclosure? The real effects of mandatory greenhouse gas emission disclosure
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, February 2019
Reducing climate risk in the post-2020 EU budget
EG3, February 2019
How does climate change affect optimal allocation of variable renewable energy?
Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln, February 2019
Defining green bonds: The danger of neglecting the issuer side
Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, February 2019
Fuel to the fire: How geoengineering threatens to entrench fossil fuels and accelerate the climate crisis
Center for International Environmental Law, February 2019
Energie-climat en Europe: pour une excellence écologique
Fondation pour l’innovation politique, February 2019
Climate security: Making it doable
Clingendael, February 2019
This is a crisis: facing up to the age of environmental breakdown
Institute for Public Policy Research, February 2019
Progress on implementing the Hague declaration on climate and security
Clingendael, February 2019
Vers une société post-carbone
Fondation pour l’innovation politique, February 2019
Getting a grip on the climate challenge to build the future of Europe
Fondation Robert Schuman, January 2019
Realizing the promise of Paris: Roadmap to a safer climate
New Climate Institute, January 2019
Agroécologie paysanne: La Via Campesina en action: des solutions pour le climat
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, January 2019
Clean energy standards
Resources for the Future, January 2019
CAP 2021-27: Using the eco-scheme to maximise environmental and climate benefits
Institute for European Environmental Policy, January 2019
Sinking to zero: The role of carbon capture and negative emissions in EU climate policy
Centre for European Policy Studies, January 2019
Green bonds: Current development and their future
Centre for International Governance Innovation, January 2019
Triaging climate change
Rand Corporation, January 2019
Intertemporal emissions trading and market design: An application to the EU ETS
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, January 2019
A just transition of European coal regions
E3G, January 2019
Steering the climate system: An extended comment
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, January 2019
The repatriation of competences in climate and energy policy after Brexit: implications for devolution and multi-level government
UK in a Changing Europe, January 2019
The regional dimension of climate change: Making the case for a just and innovative transition
Friends of Europe, December 2018
De la COP 21 à la COP24: Bilan d’étape
OCP Policy Center, December 2018
The role of sub-state and non-state actors in international climate processes: financial institutions
Chatham House, December 2018
Despite technical progress, COP24 struggles to build political momentum
IDDRI, December 2018
Pigou pushes preferences: Decarbonisation and endogenous values
Oxford Martin School, Grantham Research Institute, Centre for Climate Change Economic and Policy, December 2018
Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering: Clash or cooperation?
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, December 2018
Are the G20 economies making enough progress to meet their NDC targets?
Energy Policy, March 2019
Climate change and the just transition: a guide for investor action
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, December 2018
How poverty is causing deforestation across Africa
Chatham House, December 2018
Making finance consistent with climate goals: Insights for operationalising article 2.1c of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
ODI, World Resources Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, E3G, December 2018
Read this briefing on ‘Climate change‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
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