Key projects & teaching
Teaching at UCL
In addition to the projects listed below, Michael teaches a core module on the economics and political economy of energy and climate mitigation policy on the UCL Masters Course, Economics and Policy of Energy and Environment, based around the book Planetary Economics. The course attracts 80-90 students from around the world each year.
The UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources also runs Masters Programmes in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions and Business and Sustainability.
The UCL Centre for Net Zero Market Design
The UCL Centre for Net Zero Market Design provides independent, evidence-based research and analysis to inform policies for a rapidly decarbonising UK energy system, with stakeholder engagement to support delivery of an investible market and efficient operation for business and consumers. It builds upon research of the former programme “Navigating the Energy-Climate Crises”, which produced the four Working Papers on the Centre website.
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Sixth Assessment: Mitigation
Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the objective of the IPCC is to provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations.
ipcc.ch
Economics of Energy Innovation and Systems Transition
Cross-university and international programme coordinated by University of Exeter
The aim of EEIST is to use cutting edge advanced methods, which exist in the sciences of complexity and economics, to support government decision making around facilitating a rapid low-carbon transition. By engaging with policy-makers in large emerging economies, this project will contribute to the economic development of emerging nations and support sustainable development globally.
eeist.co.uk
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Tracing climate investments
An ERC-funded project focusing on the role of the financial system to boost the low-carbon transition, hosted at UCL ISR. The programme explores the market structures for low-carbon finance and the key features of the analysis are: model network structures of low-carbon investments and investors’ preferences in the complex architecture of current financial system; explore networks evolution and their dynamics; and, identify effective policies and regulations to channel funds towards low-carbon investment.