Michael Grubb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Grubb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Grubb |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Sustainable Energy |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2393-3041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Regulatory Impact Assessment in the energy transition era: Insights from the UK experience
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action
Modelling induced innovation for the low-carbon energy transition: A menu of options
Induced innovation is a multi-faceted process characterized by interaction between demand-pull forces, path-dependent self-reinforcing change, and the cost reduction of technology that occurs with cumulative deployment. By endogenously including induced innovation in energy models, policy analysts and modellers could enable a mission-oriented approach to policymaking that envisions the opportunities of accelerating the low-carbon energy transitio…
Policy complementarity and the paradox of carbon pricing
We present an economics framework appropriate to the exceptionally broad scope of the climate change problem. This considers that economic and social processes, particularly those involved in purposive transitions of energy technologies and systems, involve the interplay between three distinct domains of decision-making and associated actors. The first concerns small-scale and often short-term decision-making, much of which reflects extensive ‘sa…
The political economy of electricity system resource adequacy and renewable energy integration: A comparative study of Britain, Italy and California
The need to integrate growing shares of variable renewable resources, like solar and wind, into the power system has initiated a new wave of resource adequacy policy reforms. Securing adequate resources on the system, particularly flexible and peak capacity, is indeed crucial for ensuring long-term grid reliability amid increased supply variability. While extensively explored from a techno-economic perspective, the political economy drivers and i…
Allocation, allocation, allocation! The political economy of the development of the European Union Emissions Trading System
The European Union's pioneering carbon Emissions Trading System, the EU ETS, has inspired countries around the world to launch their own CO 2 markets. This paper analyses the evolution of the EU ETS from a political economy perspective, emphasizing the interaction of economic principles and political interests at pivotal moments, and showing how each compromise changed the scope for future design choices. We focus on the allowance allocation issu…
Modeling myths: On Dice and dynamic realism in integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation
We analyze how stylized Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), and specifically the widely‐used Dynamic Integrated Climate‐Economy model (DICE), represent the cost of emissions abatement. Many assume temporal independence—that abatement costs in one period are not affected by prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions of dynamic realism in emitting systems: (i) inertia, (ii) induced innovation, and (iii) path dependence. We review key …
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal
The climate crisis demands a strong response from policy-makers worldwide. The current global climate policy agenda requires technological change, innovation, labour markets and the financial system to be led towards an orderly and rapid low-carbon transition. Yet progress has been slow and incremental. Inadequacies of policy appraisal frameworks used worldwide may be significant contributors to the problem, as they frequently fail to adequately …
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C
On order and complexity in innovations systems: Conceptual frameworks for policy mixes in sustainability transitions
Health and climate change: Policy responses to protect public health
The ‘Dark Matter’ in the Search for Sustainable Growth: Energy, Innovation and the Financially Paradoxical Role of Climate Confidence
Theories of economic growth have long recognised that innovation is a key but poorly understood force — the ‘residual’ of neoclassical growth models. These models have no representation of intermediate goods, or of the factors that generate and diffuse innovations, including learning-by-doing and scale economies; they are thus unable to picture how a suite of economic and institutional changes triggers waves of long-term economic progress, which …
The Three Domains structure of energy-climate transitions
The effects and side‐effects of the EU emissions trading scheme
As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO 2 emissions, they turn to the European Union's experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. As a prominent example of a regional carbon pricing policy, it has attracted significant attention from scholars interested in evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of emissions trading. Among the key difficulties faced by researchers is isolating…
Climatic Collapse at The Hague: What Happened, Why, and Where Do We Go From Here
This article analyses the meeting of the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention that took place at The Hague in November 2000. Billed as the summit that would put the final touches to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the meeting adjourned without reaching substantive conclusions. The authors explain what happened, underlining salient features that have led to the current impasse. They suggest that agreement is still possible if …
Climate Change and European Leadership
Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto
Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol
Seeking fair weather: Ethics and the International Debate on Climate Change
The author focuses on the increasingly pressing need for humanity to face the finite nature of the planet, and in doing so to address the distributional issues relating to coping with the impacts of climate change and keeping the anthropogenic pressures on the environment within manageable limits. Within the context of actual negotiations and positions taken at the 1992 Rio Conference and since, and of the division between the priorities of the d…
The international politics of climate change
The signing of a convention which would begin to tackle the threat of human-induced climate change is expected to be a centrepiece of the June 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Negotiations to date have already revealed serious divisions of interest, of which those dividing North and South still predominate. This article suggests that the best prospects for building an effective long-term regime will arise from seeking to develop…
The greenhouse effect: Negotiating Targets
Journal Article The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets Get access The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets. By Michael Grubb. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1989. 56pp. (Energy and Environmental Programme Papers.) £10.00. ISBN 0 905031 x. Susan Owens Susan Owens 1University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 81…
The greenhouse effect: Negotiating Targets
Journal Article The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets Get access The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets. By Michael Grubb. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1989. 56pp. (Energy and Environmental Programme Papers.) £10.00. ISBN 0 905031 x. Susan Owens Susan Owens 1University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 81…
Seeking fair weather: Ethics and the International Debate on Climate Change
The author focuses on the increasingly pressing need for humanity to face the finite nature of the planet, and in doing so to address the distributional issues relating to coping with the impacts of climate change and keeping the anthropogenic pressures on the environment within manageable limits. Within the context of actual negotiations and positions taken at the 1992 Rio Conference and since, and of the division between the priorities of the d…
The international politics of climate change
The signing of a convention which would begin to tackle the threat of human-induced climate change is expected to be a centrepiece of the June 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Negotiations to date have already revealed serious divisions of interest, of which those dividing North and South still predominate. This article suggests that the best prospects for building an effective long-term regime will arise from seeking to develop…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal
The climate crisis demands a strong response from policy-makers worldwide. The current global climate policy agenda requires technological change, innovation, labour markets and the financial system to be led towards an orderly and rapid low-carbon transition. Yet progress has been slow and incremental. Inadequacies of policy appraisal frameworks used worldwide may be significant contributors to the problem, as they frequently fail to adequately …
On order and complexity in innovations systems: Conceptual frameworks for policy mixes in sustainability transitions
Allocation, allocation, allocation! The political economy of the development of the European Union Emissions Trading System
The European Union's pioneering carbon Emissions Trading System, the EU ETS, has inspired countries around the world to launch their own CO 2 markets. This paper analyses the evolution of the EU ETS from a political economy perspective, emphasizing the interaction of economic principles and political interests at pivotal moments, and showing how each compromise changed the scope for future design choices. We focus on the allowance allocation issu…
Modeling myths: On Dice and dynamic realism in integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation
We analyze how stylized Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), and specifically the widely‐used Dynamic Integrated Climate‐Economy model (DICE), represent the cost of emissions abatement. Many assume temporal independence—that abatement costs in one period are not affected by prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions of dynamic realism in emitting systems: (i) inertia, (ii) induced innovation, and (iii) path dependence. We review key …
The effects and side‐effects of the EU emissions trading scheme
As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO 2 emissions, they turn to the European Union's experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. As a prominent example of a regional carbon pricing policy, it has attracted significant attention from scholars interested in evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of emissions trading. Among the key difficulties faced by researchers is isolating…
Climatic Collapse at The Hague: What Happened, Why, and Where Do We Go From Here
This article analyses the meeting of the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention that took place at The Hague in November 2000. Billed as the summit that would put the final touches to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the meeting adjourned without reaching substantive conclusions. The authors explain what happened, underlining salient features that have led to the current impasse. They suggest that agreement is still possible if …
Regulatory Impact Assessment in the energy transition era: Insights from the UK experience
The political economy of electricity system resource adequacy and renewable energy integration: A comparative study of Britain, Italy and California
The need to integrate growing shares of variable renewable resources, like solar and wind, into the power system has initiated a new wave of resource adequacy policy reforms. Securing adequate resources on the system, particularly flexible and peak capacity, is indeed crucial for ensuring long-term grid reliability amid increased supply variability. While extensively explored from a techno-economic perspective, the political economy drivers and i…
The greenhouse effect: Negotiating Targets
Journal Article The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets Get access The greenhouse effect: negotiating targets. By Michael Grubb. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1989. 56pp. (Energy and Environmental Programme Papers.) £10.00. ISBN 0 905031 x. Susan Owens Susan Owens 1University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 81…
The international politics of climate change
The signing of a convention which would begin to tackle the threat of human-induced climate change is expected to be a centrepiece of the June 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Negotiations to date have already revealed serious divisions of interest, of which those dividing North and South still predominate. This article suggests that the best prospects for building an effective long-term regime will arise from seeking to develop…
Seeking fair weather: Ethics and the International Debate on Climate Change
The author focuses on the increasingly pressing need for humanity to face the finite nature of the planet, and in doing so to address the distributional issues relating to coping with the impacts of climate change and keeping the anthropogenic pressures on the environment within manageable limits. Within the context of actual negotiations and positions taken at the 1992 Rio Conference and since, and of the division between the priorities of the d…
Climate Change and European Leadership
Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto
Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol
Climatic Collapse at The Hague: What Happened, Why, and Where Do We Go From Here
This article analyses the meeting of the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention that took place at The Hague in November 2000. Billed as the summit that would put the final touches to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the meeting adjourned without reaching substantive conclusions. The authors explain what happened, underlining salient features that have led to the current impasse. They suggest that agreement is still possible if …
The effects and side‐effects of the EU emissions trading scheme
As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO 2 emissions, they turn to the European Union's experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. As a prominent example of a regional carbon pricing policy, it has attracted significant attention from scholars interested in evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of emissions trading. Among the key difficulties faced by researchers is isolating…
Health and climate change: Policy responses to protect public health
The ‘Dark Matter’ in the Search for Sustainable Growth: Energy, Innovation and the Financially Paradoxical Role of Climate Confidence
Theories of economic growth have long recognised that innovation is a key but poorly understood force — the ‘residual’ of neoclassical growth models. These models have no representation of intermediate goods, or of the factors that generate and diffuse innovations, including learning-by-doing and scale economies; they are thus unable to picture how a suite of economic and institutional changes triggers waves of long-term economic progress, which …
The Three Domains structure of energy-climate transitions
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C
On order and complexity in innovations systems: Conceptual frameworks for policy mixes in sustainability transitions
Modeling myths: On Dice and dynamic realism in integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation
We analyze how stylized Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), and specifically the widely‐used Dynamic Integrated Climate‐Economy model (DICE), represent the cost of emissions abatement. Many assume temporal independence—that abatement costs in one period are not affected by prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions of dynamic realism in emitting systems: (i) inertia, (ii) induced innovation, and (iii) path dependence. We review key …
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal
The climate crisis demands a strong response from policy-makers worldwide. The current global climate policy agenda requires technological change, innovation, labour markets and the financial system to be led towards an orderly and rapid low-carbon transition. Yet progress has been slow and incremental. Inadequacies of policy appraisal frameworks used worldwide may be significant contributors to the problem, as they frequently fail to adequately …
Allocation, allocation, allocation! The political economy of the development of the European Union Emissions Trading System
The European Union's pioneering carbon Emissions Trading System, the EU ETS, has inspired countries around the world to launch their own CO 2 markets. This paper analyses the evolution of the EU ETS from a political economy perspective, emphasizing the interaction of economic principles and political interests at pivotal moments, and showing how each compromise changed the scope for future design choices. We focus on the allowance allocation issu…
Policy complementarity and the paradox of carbon pricing
We present an economics framework appropriate to the exceptionally broad scope of the climate change problem. This considers that economic and social processes, particularly those involved in purposive transitions of energy technologies and systems, involve the interplay between three distinct domains of decision-making and associated actors. The first concerns small-scale and often short-term decision-making, much of which reflects extensive ‘sa…
The political economy of electricity system resource adequacy and renewable energy integration: A comparative study of Britain, Italy and California
The need to integrate growing shares of variable renewable resources, like solar and wind, into the power system has initiated a new wave of resource adequacy policy reforms. Securing adequate resources on the system, particularly flexible and peak capacity, is indeed crucial for ensuring long-term grid reliability amid increased supply variability. While extensively explored from a techno-economic perspective, the political economy drivers and i…
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action
Modelling induced innovation for the low-carbon energy transition: A menu of options
Induced innovation is a multi-faceted process characterized by interaction between demand-pull forces, path-dependent self-reinforcing change, and the cost reduction of technology that occurs with cumulative deployment. By endogenously including induced innovation in energy models, policy analysts and modellers could enable a mission-oriented approach to policymaking that envisions the opportunities of accelerating the low-carbon energy transitio…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Regulatory Impact Assessment in the energy transition era: Insights from the UK experience
Climate Change Policy and Economics (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Climate change (12 works) · Business (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Greenhouse gas (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)