Climate change is an ongoing topic in nearly all areas of society since many years. A discussion of climate change without referring to scientific results is not imaginable. This is especially the case for policies since action on the macro scale is required to avoid costly consequences for society. In this study, we deal with the question of how research on climate change and policy are connected. In 2019, the new Overton database of policy documents was released including links to research papers that are cited by policy documents. The use of results and recommendations from research on climate change might be reflected in citations of scientific papers in policy documents. Although we suspect a lot of uncertainty related to the coverage of policy documents in Overton, there seems to be an impact of international climate policy cycles on policy document publication. We observe local peaks in climate policy documents around major decisions in international climate diplomacy. Our results point out that IGOs and think tanks -- with a focus on climate change -- have published more climate change policy documents than expected. We found that climate change papers that are cited in climate change policy documents received significantly more citations on average than climate change papers that are not cited in these documents. Both areas of society (science and policy) focus on similar climate change research fields: biology, earth sciences, engineering, and disease sciences. Based on these and other empirical results in this study, we propose a simple model of policy impact considering a chain of different document types: the chain starts with scientific assessment reports (systematic reviews) that lead via science communication documents (policy briefs, policy reports or plain language summaries) and government reports to legislative documents.
Can homophily explain public underestimation of climate policy support?
Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；University of Colorado Boulder（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）；Pitzer College（皮泽尔学院）；Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学）；University of Wyoming（怀俄明大学）
Planning for climate neutrality in the Nordic power sector: Insights from a non-harmonised comparison of eight energy system models
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Energy Systems（瑞典皇家理工学院工业工程与管理学院能源技术、能源系统）；Open Energy Transition（开放能源转型）；Energy Modelling Lab（能源建模实验室）；Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo（奥斯陆大学技术系统系）；Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark（丹麦技术大学技术、管理与经济系）；Energy Research Area, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd（芬兰技术研究中心有限公司能源研究领域）；Department of Energy Systems Analysis, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)（挪威能源研究所能源系统分析系）；Faculty of Environmental Science and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)（挪威生命科学大学环境科学与自然资源管理学院）；LUT University（拉彭兰塔理工大学）
Crafting Desirable Climate Trajectories with RL Explored Socio-Environmental Simulations
UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science（伦敦大学学院人工智能中心，计算机科学系）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；London（伦敦）；United Kingdom（英国）
Mitigating Financial Risk from Climate-Induced Agricultural Price Volatility
Chennai Mathematical Institute（金奈数学研究所）；AI 4 Water LTD（AI for Water有限公司）；Institute for Interdisciplinary Research（跨学科研究所）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University（贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学计算与整合科学学院）
