Presentations Directory

• June 2024

• Mon 10

  The Pathfinder Initiative umbrella review – methods, findings and next steps

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Rosie Green

  As part of the Pathfinder Initiative, a systematic umbrella review was conducted of evidence from implemented actions and modelling studies of climate mitigation actions on green-house gas and health outcomes. We present what we did, what we found and what we plan to do with the findings for influencing policy and research.

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Evidence mapping, Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis
• Mon 10

  Supporting the evaluation and evidence synthesis landscape in climate and health in low- and middle-income countries

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  David Ameyaw

  Climate change is one of the biggest threats currently facing humanity. It is a is a global threat to stability. With its impacts in the form of extreme weather events and rising water body levels, climate change exposes present and future generations to lifelong health and livelihood harm, particularly in regions with low adaptive and […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Evidence mapping
• Mon 10

  Guidelines of best practice climate and health modelling. The GReenhouse Gas And Health Modelling Studies (GRAHMS) Checklist.

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

  H 0112

  Presenter:

  Rosie Green

  As part of the Pathfinder Commission, a systematic umbrella review was conducted which synthesised disparate evidence on health and green-house gas (GHG) emissions resulting from climate change mitigation modelling. We observed discrepancy in conduct and reporting of these studies across interventions and contexts, which often required assumptions to be made when synthesising those estimates. This […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Quantitative synthesis/meta-analysis, Model inter-comparisons and other collections of climate policy scenarios
• Mon 10

  Developing guidelines for economic evaluation of the health impacts of climate (in)action, enabling a consistent, comparable approach

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Aligning evidence on climate change mitigation and health. Insights from the Pathfinder Initiative and partners

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  Presenter:

  Rachel Huxley

  In funding research in the climate and health field, economic evaluation has come up as critical evidence that policymakers need to identify and develop effective policy for climate and health. However, there are gaps in research capacity to deliver the evidence needed. Most economists either work on health or climate/environment economic analysis and they are […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions & Health

  Research Methods: Other evidence synthesis
• Mon 10

  Towards understanding policy design through text-as-data approaches: The policy design annotations (POLIANNA) dataset

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 New approaches to ex-post climate policy evaluation

  H 0104 (Elinor Ostrom Hall)

  Presenter:

  Lynn H. Kaack

  Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. In a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and ETH Zurich, we made a first step in contributing to overcoming this bottleneck: […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Other
• Mon 10

  Bayesian Structural Break Detection for the Identification of Effective Climate Policies

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 New approaches to ex-post climate policy evaluation

  H 0104 (Elinor Ostrom Hall)

  Presenter:

  Lucas Darius Konrad

  In this study, we introduce a Bayesian approach to detect structural breaks in panel data in the context of step-shift indicator saturated models. We focus on identifying the magnitude of the impact of climate policies with uncertain timing. Traditional methods for climate policy evaluation often rely on precise knowledge of when interventions occur, comparing outcomes […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments, Policy evaluation – Other
• Mon 10

  Attributing Increases in Green Patenting to Disruptive Climate Policies

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 New approaches to ex-post climate policy evaluation

  H 0104 (Elinor Ostrom Hall)

  Presenter:

  Laura Menicacci

  While the role of innovation in the green transition is widely acknowledged, ex-post evaluations of policy instruments and policy mixes are limited to a few headline policy instruments. In this paper, we use patent family data from 22 countries for the years 2000 to 2019, covering 95% of total green patenting activity, and combine a […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments, Policy evaluation – Other
• Mon 10

  Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 New approaches to ex-post climate policy evaluation

  H 0104 (Elinor Ostrom Hall)

  Presenter:

  Patrick Klösel

  Meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary scale. Here, we provide the first global, systematic ex-post evaluation identifying policy combinations that have led to large emission reductions out of 1,500 climate policies implemented between 1998 and 2022 across 41 countries from six […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Policy evaluation – Quasi-experiments, Policy evaluation – Other
• Mon 10

  Building Open-Source Empirical Models to Forecast Carbon Emissions

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 New approaches to ex-post climate policy evaluation

  H 0104 (Elinor Ostrom Hall)

  Presenter:

  Moritz Schwarz

  Formulating and implementing climate policy requires a detailed understanding of likely pathways of future carbon emissions. However, most existing tools to provide forecasts for such emissions exhibit several limitations. Projections are predominantly made for the long-term, lacking the necessary detail within the typical policy horizon of one to five years. Moreover, most short-term forecasting models […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Policy (Instrument) Evaluation

  Research Methods: Model inter-comparisons and other collections of climate policy scenarios, Policy evaluation – Other
• Mon 10

  Scaling urban climate action through archetypes: a city-matching approach

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Urban typologies

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  Presenter:

  Klaus Eisenack

  Numerous city governments around the world have positioned themselves as “leaders” in efforts to deal with climate change. Although valuable, these efforts require scaling in order to achieve the needed impact. Here, we argue that horizontal scaling, i.e. the diffusion of ambitious climate action across cities, will benefit from appropriate city typologies. Typologies can foster […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Cities and other Human Settlements

  Research Methods: Mixed-methods synthesis
• Mon 10

  Unpacking capacity for climate action: mechanisms shaping the effect of organisational capacity on policy implementation at the local level

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Urban typologies

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  Presenter:

  Lydia Finzel

  In recent years, local governments have gained significant importance in the implementation of climate policy. Cities and municipalities offer place-based and context-specific solutions to climate-related and –specific problems. However, cities also often face an implementation challenge. Previous studies have consistently found a general influence of capacity as a key constraint for local governments. Scholars generally […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Cities and other Human Settlements

  Research Methods: Qualitative synthesis
• Mon 10

  Urban typologies in climate risk and adaptation studies: Approaches, applications, remaining gaps and ways forward

  June 10, 2024 / 13:00 – 14:30 Urban typologies

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  Presenter:

  Matthias Garschagen

  The amount of scientific knowledge and published case studies on climate risks and adaptation action in cities has been rising sharply over the recent years. Typologies, archetypes or clustering approaches have been used in a range of studies and science-for-policy reports in an attempt to structure the wealth of case study information into larger profiles […]

  Conference Theme: Climate Solutions for Cities and other Human Settlements

  Research Methods: Other evidence synthesis