The COVID-19 crisis comes at a complex moment for European climate policy as it pivots from a 40% 2030 emissions reduction target to a European Green Deal that is in better alignment with long-term Paris Agreement goals. Here, the implications of the dramatic fall in economic output associated...

We analyze the impact of a rise in protectionism on environmental regulation. Using the 2018 US-China trade war as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that higher exposure to tariffs leads to less stringent regulation targets in China, increasing air pollution and carbon emissions. Politically...

This paper explores heterogeneity in preferences for renewable home heating, more specifically heat pump systems, using a novel combination of psychological construct statements, based on the theory of planned behavior, and a discrete choice experiment. We employ a latent class analysis of a...