A wide range of outputs
Resources
Briefs
Publications
Preprints
Deliverables
Briefs
Policy briefs
The Capable researchers have draft a set of six high-level summaries of the main results of the CAPABLE research project. They address the actionable policy recommendations on key research topics for policymakers, practitioners, business and consumers’ representatives.
- Climate Policy Acceptability and Effectiveness: “CAPABLE’s User Manual” pdf
- Key results and recommendations: “CAPABLE factsheet” pdf
- Public’s opinion: “Online Dashboard: public’s opinions – climate policies across Europe” pdf
- Carbon pricing: “Lessons from carbon pricing in Europe: beyond effectiveness” pdf
- The Green Deal: “Truly just? Barriers to participation and uneven impacts of the Green Deal policies” pdf
- Determinants of policy support: “Lessons from Systematically Reviewing the Literature on Determinants of Climate-Policy Support” pdf
- ETS revenues: “Strengthening Public Support for ETS2 Through Wise Revenue Use” pdf
Publications
Peer reviewed publications
You can find here below the list of peer reviewed publications produced by the CAPABLE researchers, alongside their blog post and the full pdf of the paper, when available.
- Niklas Döbbeling-Hildebrandt et al. (2024) “Under what conditions and why is carbon pricing effective? A realist synthesis of ex-post evidence”, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 20, Number 10
10.1088/1748-9326/ae03d8
pdf - Mohammadzadeh Valencia, F., Mohren, C., Ramakrishnan, A. et al. (2024) “Public support for carbon pricing policies and revenue recycling options: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the survey literature”, npj Clim. Action 3, 74 (2024)
10.1038/s44168-024-00153-x
pdf - Ilke Aydogan, Loïc Berger, Vincent Théroude (2024) “Pay all subjects or pay only some? An experiment on decision-making under risk and ambiguity”, Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 104, October 2024, 102757
10.1016/j.joep.2024.102757
pdf - Callaghan, M., Banisch, L., Doebbeling-Hildebrandt, N. et al (2025) “Machine learning map of climate policy literature reveals disparities between scientific attention, policy density, and emissions”, npj Clim. Action 4, 7 (2025)
10.1038/s44168-024-00196-0
pdf - van den Bergh, J., and W. Botzen (2024) “Assessing criticisms of carbon pricing”, International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 18(3): 315-384
10.1561/101.00000172
pdf blog - Savin, I., S. Drews and J. van den Bergh (2024) “Carbon pricing – perceived strengths, weaknesses and knowledge gaps according to a global expert surve”, Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), 024014
10.1088/1748-9326/ad1c1c
pdf
blog - Patino-Artaza,H., King, L.C., Savin, I. (2024) “Did COVID-19 really change our lifestyles? Evidence from transport energy consumption in Europe”, Energy Policy, 2024, 191, 114204
10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114204
pdf
blog - Sitarz, J., Pahle, M., Osorio, S., Luderer, G., & Pietzcker, R. (2024) “Policy credibility is a key component for an effective and efficient EU Emissions Trading System”, Nature Energy 9, 637–638 (2024)
10.1038/s41560-024-01545-3
pdf - Sitarz, J., Pahle, M., Osorio, S., Luderer, G., & Pietzcker, R. (2024) “EU carbon prices signal high policy credibility and farsighted actors”, Nature Energy, 9, 691–702 (2024)
10.1038/s41560-024-01505-x
pdf - Emmerling, J., Kornek, U., & Zuber, S. (2024) “Multidimensional welfare indices and the IPCC 6th Assessment Report scenarios”, Ecological Economics
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108182
pdf - Sitarz, J., Pahle, M., Osorio, S., Luderer, G., & Pietzcker, R (2024) “Policy credibility is a key component for an effective and efficient EU Emissions Trading System”, Nature Energy, 9, pages 637–638 (2024)
10.1038/s41560-024-01545-3
pdf - Döbbeling-Hildebrandt, N., Miersch, K., Khanna, T.M., Bachelet, M., Bruns, S., Callaghan, M., Edenhofer, O., Flachsland, C., Forster, P., Kalkuhl, M., Koch, N., Lamb, W., Ohlendorf, N., Steckel, J.C., Minx, J.C. (2024) “Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing”, Nature Communications, 4147 (2024)
10.1038/s41467-024-48512-w
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blog - Bayle-Cordier, J., Berger, L., Elatmani, R. and Tavoni, M. (2023) “Breath, Love, Walk? The Impact of Mindfulness Interventions on Climate Policy Support and Environmental Attitudes”, Sustainability, 2023, 15(13), 10491
10.3390/su151310491
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blog - L.C. King, I. Savin and S. Drews (2023) “Shades of green growth scepticism among climate policy researchers”, Nature Sustainability, 2023, 6 (11), 1316-1320
10.1038/s41893-023-01198-2
blog - Carolina Mestre Garcia, Ivan Savin. Jeroen van den Bergh (2023) “The Nexus of COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review”, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 244(3)
10.1515/jbnst-2023-0048
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blog - Aydogan, I., L. Berger, V. Bosetti, N. Liu (2023) “Three Layers of Uncertainty”, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 2209–2236
10.1093/jeea/jvad008
pdf
blog
Preprints
Preprints
You can find here below a short list of the working papers and preprints produced by the researchers involved in the CAPABLE project:
- Roberta Terranova, Chiara Cozzarini, Severin Reissl, Massimo Tavoni (2024). “Detecting Speculation in the Market for EU Emission Allowances”, SSRN papers
10.2139/ssrn.5046581
pdf - Blanz, A. and Gaitan, B. (2023). “Reducing residential emissions: carbon pricing vs. subsidizing retrofits”, Arxiv.org
10.48550/arxiv.2310.15687
pdf - Aydogan, I., L. Berger, V. Bosetti (2023). “Unraveling Ambiguity Aversion”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1–32
10.1162/rest_a_01358
Deliverables
Public deliverables
You can find here below the list of the Deliverables produced by the Capable consortium.
- D1.1 Summary report on policy evaluation and the role of social and economic heterogeneity for policy effectiveness and acceptability
pdf - D2.1 Literature Review and Integrative Framework of Determinants of Public Acceptance and Social Feasibility of Climate Policies
pdf - D2.5 Report on public perceptions of actors and policymaking
pdf - D4.1 Report on Comprehension and Use of scientific knowledge and effectiveness of different communication approaches
pdf - D5.1 Communication and Dissemination plan
pdf - D5.2 Project website and blog
pdf - D5.3 Minutes and conclusions of the Workshop 1
pdf - D5.4 Minutes and conclusions of the Workshop 2
pdf - D6.1 Data Management Plan
pdf - D6.2 Report on possible actions to improve gender balance, minority representation in the CAPABLE consortium
pdf - D6.5 First update of the Data Management Plan
pdf
Climate policy databases
Climate Policies acceptability
Climate Policies Evaluation
Climate policy databases
Climate policy databases
- OECD – PINE Policy Instruments for the Environment Database link – Data dissemination platform link
- OECD – Climate Action Dashboard link
- The Grantham Research Institute – Climate Change Laws of the World database link
- NewClimate Institute – Climate Policy Database link
- IEA & IRENA – Policies and Measures Database link
- EEA – Database on integrated national climate and energy policies and measures in Europe link
- Climate Analytics & NewClimate Institute – Climate action tracker link
Climate Policies acceptability
Climate Policies acceptability
Climate Policies Evaluation
Climate Policies Evaluation
- INNOPATHS – DPET Decarbonisation Policy Evaluation Tool link