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CEP discussion paper

The Economics of climate innovation: technology, climate policy, and the clean energy transition

We examine the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition. It outlines the incentives, market failures, and policy levers that shape the development and diffusion of clean technologie...Read more...

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LSE Business Review:

Eugenie Dugoua: Data centres are the factories of our modern lives

Our lives today increasingly depend on data centres for simple activities like writing emails or watching videos. The arrival of large language models such as ChatGPT has caused a significant uptick in the use of digital...Read more...

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LSE IQ Podcast:

Is AI destroying the planet? (podcast)

Professor Nick Couldry, Dr Eugenie Dugoua, Ceara Carney | Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, offering increased productivity and promising to help tackle difficult problems like global warming. ...Read more...

Journal article

American Economic Review: Insights:

Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on “clean” electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term i...Read more...

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Vox EU:

Global environmental cooperation and innovation

In the ongoing debate on climate change, one of the most pressing challenges is fostering effective international cooperation. This column examines the success of the 1987 'Montreal Protocol' in phasing out harmful chlor...Read more...

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PNAS:

Coordination dynamics between fuel cell and battery technologies in the transition to clean cars

Significant progress reconciling economic activities with a stable climate requires radical and rapid technological change in multiple sectors. Here, we study the case of the automotive industry’s transition to electric ...Read more...

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The Review of Economics and Statistics :

Induced Innovation and International Environmental Agreements: Evidence from the Ozone Regime

This paper revisits one of the rare success stories in global environmental cooperation: the Montreal Protocol and the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances. I show that the protocol increased science and innovation on...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Induced innovation, inventors and the energy transition

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on 'clean' electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term i...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Induced innovation and international environmental agreements: Evidence from the ozone regime

This paper revisits one of the rare success stories in global environmental cooperation: the Montreal Protocol and the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances. I show that the protocol increased science and innovation on...Read more...

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Science:

Support for climate policy researchers

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Economic Development and Cultural Change : Forthcoming

Learning from unincentivized and incentivized communication: a randomized controlled trial in India

Interactions among peers of the same social network play significant roles in facilitating the adoption and diffusion of modern technologies in poor communities. We conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial in ru...Read more...

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Research and innovation policies for the green transition

in Science, research and innovation performance of the EU 2022

This chapter provides a selective review of policies that can help foster a transition towards green technologies. R&I are crucial to tackling sustainability challenges, and public policies are needed to direct technolog...Read more...

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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy : Forthcoming

Text as data in environmental economics and policy

There is growing interest in using text as data in social science research, particularly in economics. The availability of large amounts of digitized text material such as social media posts, newspapers, firms' annual re...Read more...

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Energy for Sustainable Development : Forthcoming

Assessing reliability of electricity grid services from space: the case of Uttar Pradesh, India

While most households around the world have access to electricity, the number of hours per day when the grid supplies them with adequate voltage can be low. Improving the reliability of electricity is crucial to make pro...Read more...

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management:

Green product innovation in industrial networks: A theoretical model

Previous studies have modeled green technological change as innovations in the process of production (e.g., abatement technologies or energy sources). But greening the economy also requires changing products. The automot...Read more...