Our new study examines whether Switzerland's carbon tax creates real financial incentives for property owners to replace fossil heating systems in the rental market—and finds the answer is, so far, mostly no. Introducing our new working paper, "Carbon pricing and owner incentives for low-carbon investment in the Swiss rental housing market." (Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6849802.) This paper is a chapter of Nina Lustenberger's thesis,

Our new study uncovers how public opinion shapes the supply of local climate policy, and how these policies, in turn, help reduce emissions. Introducing our study documented in “Climate action close to home: The role of public attitudes and policy responses in reducing GHG emissions.” The paper has been published in Energy Research & Social Science (2025). With Manuel Ebner, Katya Rhodes, and Kevin Andrew. The paper is a chapter of Manuel Ebner’s Ph.D. thesis, packed with (ve

The research project COALSTAKE (The Political Economy of Coal Policy: Comparative Analyses of Stakeholder Strategies and Resource...

Article published at Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 2021 Introducing our new article, “Black Coal, Thin Ice: The...