• Adapting Accountability and Emerging Challenges: Contracting-out in the Transport Sector in Switzerland, Norway and Sweden 

      Lieberherr, Eva; Hansson, Lisa; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Schmid, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Government reforms such as contracting-out continue to influence public service provision within infrastructure sectors. Contracting-out involves a detachment of the operators from political decision-making and the creation ...
    • The added value of km-scale simulations to describe temperature over complex orography: the CORDEX FPS-Convection multi-model ensemble runs over the Alps 

      Soares, P.M.M.; Careto, J.A.M.; Cardoso, Rita M.; Goergen, Klaus; Katragkou, Eleni; Sobolowski, Stefan Pieter; Coppola, Erika; Ban, Nikolina; Belušić, Danijel; Berthou, Ségolène; Caillaud, Cécile; Dobler, Andreas; Hodnebrog, Øivind; Kartsios, Stergios; Lenderink, Geert; Lorenz, Torge; Milovac, Josipa; Feldmann, Hendrik; Pichelli, Emanuela; Truhetz, Heimo; Demory, Marie-Estelle; de Vries, Hylke; Warrach-Sagi, Kirsten; Keuler, Klaus; Raffa, Mario; Tölle, Merja H.; Sieck, Kevin; Bastin, Sophie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The increase in computational resources has enabled the emergence of multi-model ensembles of convection-permitting regional climate model (CPRCM) simulations at very high horizontal resolutions. An example is the CORDEX ...
    • Adjustment costs for investments in the abatement of climate change under uncertainty 

      Aaheim, H. Asbjørn (CICERO Working Paper;2000:05, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper studies optimal abatement of CO2 emissions, when investments in abatement measures are subject to adjustment costs. Decisions are made under uncertainty about the damages of climate change. Optimal abatement is ...
    • Aerosol absorption has an underappreciated role in historical precipitation change 

      Samset, Bjørn Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Precipitation change has proven notoriously hard to simulate consistently between global climate models. Aerosol induced shortwave absorption over the historical era is also poorly constrained in both observations and ...
    • Aerosol absorption in global models from AeroCom phase III 

      Sand, Maria; Samset, Bjørn Hallvard; Myhre, Gunnar; Gliss, Jonas; Bauer, Susanne E.; Bian, Huisheng; Chin, Mian; Checa-Garcia, Ramiro; Ginoux, Paul; Kipling, Zak; Kirkevåg, Alf; Kokkola, Harri; Le Sager, Philippe; Lund, Marianne Tronstad; Matsui, Hitoshi; Van Noije, Twan; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo; Rémy, Samuel; Schulz, Michael; Stier, Philip; Stjern, Camilla Weum; Takemura, Toshihiko; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Tsyro, Svetlana; Watson-Parris, Duncan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Aerosol-induced absorption of shortwave radiation can modify the climate through local atmospheric heating, which affects lapse rates, precipitation, and cloud formation. Presently, the total amount of aerosol absorption ...
    • Aerosols at the poles: an AeroCom Phase II multi-model evaluation 

      Sand, Maria; Samset, Bjørn Hallvard; Balkanski, Yves; Bauer, Susanne; Bellouin, Nicolas; Berntsen, Terje Koren; Bian, Huisheng; Chin, Mian; Diehl, Thomas; Easter, Richard; Ghan, Steve J.; Iversen, Trond; Kirkevåg, Alf; Lamarque, Jean-Francois; Lin, Guangxing; Liu, Xiaohong; Luo, Gan; Myhre, Gunnar; Van Noije, Twan P.C.; Penner, Joyce E.; Schulz, Michael; Seland, Øyvind; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Stier, Philip; Takemura, Toshihiko; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Yu, Fangqun; Zhang, Kai; Zhang, Hua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
    • African biomass burning affects aerosol cycling over the Amazon 

      Holanda, Bruna A.; Franco, Marco A.; Walter, David; Artaxo, Paulo; Carbone, Samara; Cheng, Yafang; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Ditas, Florian; Gysel-Beer, Martin; Klimach, Thomas; Kremper, Leslie A.; Krüger, Ovid O.; Lavric, Jost V.; Lelieveld, Jos; Ma, Chaoqun; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Modini, Robin L.; Morais, Fernando G.; Pozzer, Andrea; Saturno, Jorge; Su, Hang; Wendisch, Manfred; Wolff, Stefan; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Pöschl, Ulrich; Pöhlker, Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Smoke from vegetation fires affects air quality, atmospheric cycling, and the climate in the Amazon rain forest. A major unknown has remained the quantity of long-range transported smoke from Africa in relation to local ...
    • African Development Bank (AfDB) 

      CICERO Center for International Climate Research (Second opinions;2013:001, Report, 2013-09-01)
      Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Development, Issuer type: Financial Institution, Shading: Not shaded
    • African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates 

      Vousdoukas, Michalis I.; Clarke, Joanne; Ranasinghe, Roshanka; Reimann, Lena; Khalaf, Nadia; Duong, Trang Minh; Ouweneel, Birgitt; Sabour, Salma; Iles, Carley Elizabeth; Trisos, Christopher H.; Feyen, Luc; Mentaschi, Lorenzo; Simpson, Nicholas P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The African coast contains heritage sites of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ that face increasing risk from anthropogenic climate change. Here, we generated a database of 213 natural and 71 cultural African heritage sites ...
    • Agder Energi 

      CICERO Center for International Climate Research (Second opinions;2017:014, Report, 2017-10-20)
      Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Energy, Issuer type: Corporate, Shading: Dark Green
    • Agence Française de Développement (AfD) 

      CICERO Center for International Climate Research (Second opinions;2017:016, Report, 2017-10-26)
      Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Development, Issuer type: Financial Institution, Shading: Medium Green
    • An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions 

      Foulds, Chris; Royston, Sarah; Berker, Thomas; Nakopoulou, Efi; Bharucha, Zareen Pervez; Robison, Rosie; Abram, Simone; Ančić, Branko; Arapostathis, Stathis; Badescu, Gabriel; Bull, Richard; Cohen, Jed; Dunlop, Tessa; Dunphy, Niall; Dupont, Claire; Fischer, Corinna; Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten; Grandclément, Catherine; Heiskanen, Eva; Labanca, Nicola; Jeliazkova, Maria; Jörgens, Helge; Keller, Margit; Kern, Florian; Lombardi, Patrizia; Mourik, Ruth; Ornetzeder, Michael; Pearson, Peter J. G.; Rohracher, Harald; Sahakian, Marlyne; Sari, Ramazan; Standal, Karina; Živčič, Lidija (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even ...
    • Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) 

      CICERO Center for International Climate Research (Second opinions;2018:026, Report, 2018-11-14)
      Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Banking, Issuer type: Financial Institution, Shading: Dark Green
    • Air pollution and child health impacts of decarbonization in 16 global cities: Modelling study 

      Milner, James; Hughes, Robert; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Picetti, Roberto; Ghosh, Rakesh; Yeung, Shunmay; Lelieveld, Jos; Dangour, Alan D.; Wilkinson, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Most research on the air pollution-related health effects of decarbonization has focused on adults. We assess the potential health benefits that could be achieved in children and young people in a global sample of 16 cities ...
    • Air Pollution and Congestion in Bangkok- Developing analytical tools, and implications 

      Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Mideksa, Torben Kenea (CICERO Report;2009:01, Research report, 2009)
      In a congested city with air pollution like Bangkok, there are gains to analyzing and addressing them in coordination. Higher speed, tremendously valuable in itself for firms and households, also reduce the costs of air ...
    • Air pollution impacts on in-hospital case-fatality rate of ischemic stroke patients 

      Keller, Karsten; Haghi, Seyed Hamed Rastguye; Hahad, Omar; Schmidtmann, Irene; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Lelieveld, Jos; Münzel, Thomas; Hobohm, Lukas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: A growing body of evidence suggests that air pollution exposure is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. Data regarding the impact of long-term air pollution exposure on ischemic stroke ...
    • Air quality estimates in Taiyan, Shanxi Province, China 

      Mestl, Heidi Elizabeth Staff; Fang, Jinghua (CICERO Report;2003:01, Research report, 2003)
      In a previous cost-benefit analysis of local air quality improvements in Shanxi, a simple linear relationship between emissions and surface concentrations was assumed (Aunan et al., 2004). This study looks more closely at ...
    • Aligera 

      CICERO Center for International Climate Research (Second opinions;2015:005, Report, 2015-07-01)
      Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Energy, Issuer type: Corporate, Shading: Dark Green
    • An alternative to the Global Warming Potential for comparing climate impacts of emissions of greenhouse gases 

      Shine, Keith P.; Fuglestvedt, Jan S.; Stuber, Nicola (CICERO Working Paper;2003:03, Working paper, 2003)
      The Global Warming Potential (GWP) is used within the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a metric for weighting the climatic impact of emissions of different greenhouse gases. ...
    • An analysis of the Bonn agreement: Background information for evaluating business implications 

      Torvanger, Asbjørn (CICERO Report;2001:03, Research report, 2001)
      This report has been commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and written in August 2001. The aim of the report is to present and analyze the newest developments in the climate negotiations, ...