Quantifying climate liability risks
We explain the significance of climate change liability risks, how they are neglected and five different approaches for measuring these risks.
T. Wetzer, R. Stuart-Smith and A.Dibley, ‘ Climate risk assessments must engage with the law’, Science, 383, 6679, 152-154 (2024).
Why do some state-owned companies innovate more than others?
This paper sets out a theory of ‘green’ innovation at state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which accounts for the legal and financial structure of these firms.
A. Dibley, ‘When does “Leviathan” innovate? A Legal Theory of Clean Technological Change at Government-Owned Electric Utilities’, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 47, 135-205 (2023).
Decarbonizing state-owned power companies
Through a comparison of state-owned power companies in middle income countries we look at some of the barriers and potential approaches for decarbonizing these high emitting firms.
P. Benoit, A. Clark, M. Schwartz and A, Dibley, Decarbonization in state-owned power companies: Lessons from a comparative analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production (Apr, 2022).
Sovereign bonds and climate risks
We study sovereign bond prospectuses issued during the COVID-19 pandemic and find that few countries considered how climate change risks may impact repayment.
A. Dibley, T. Wetzer and C. Hepburn, ‘National COVID debts: climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay’, Nature, 592, 184-187 (2021).
Mexico's carbon pricing regime and business interests
We study the development of Mexico’s carbon pricing laws and evaluate whether economic co-benefits are sufficient to enable a high carbon price.
A.Dibley and R. Garcia-Miron, ‘Can money buy you (climate) happiness? Economic co-benefits and the implementation of effective carbon pricing policies in Mexico’, 70, 101659 (2020)