Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....

Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...

This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of key issues related to climate change to economists. For this purpose, we first discuss the established scientific facts of climate change and then discuss their implications to the economy and the field of economics. We start with explaining...

This article proposes a decentralized solution towards capping greenhouse gas emissions by utilizing blockchain-based technology that will allow teams of academics to issue carbon credits as cryptocurrency. Ideally, these "Crypto Carbon Credits" will be issued to individuals and organizations...

Economic research that opposes the strategy of strong and urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions often makes the observation, misleadingly, that while scientists, environmentalists, politicians and others would favour strong action, economists would not. Drawing on the Stern Review on the...

Paper covers personal experiences relating to the relevant science, publications, negotiations, policies, measures, business responses, and sleight-of-hand which has gone around the author over many years

Those who deny the importance of strong and urgent action on climate change essentially offer one of, or a combination of, the following arguments. First, there are those who deny the scientific link between human activities and global warming; most people, and the vast majority of scientists,...