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Axel Michaelowa is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on climate change policy, economics, and environmental science. Their academic output encompasses numerous publications in economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as environmental science, contributing to an interdisciplinary understanding of environmental and sustainability challenges.

Their research often intersects several subfields including economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and mechanical engineering. Axel Michaelowa's work addresses a broad set of topics such as climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, environmental impact and sustainability, carbon dioxide capture technologies, climate change and geoengineering, international development and aid, and social acceptance of renewable energy.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Axel Michaelowa are:

  • "Who Is Paying for Carbon Dioxide Removal? Designing Policy Instruments for Mobilizing Negative Emissions Technologies" (2021, Frontiers in Climate)
  • "Governance of Fragmented Compliance and Voluntary Carbon Markets Under the Paris Agreement" (2022, Politics and Governance)
  • "The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy" (2022, Frontiers in Climate)
  • "International carbon markets for carbon dioxide removal" (2023, PLOS Climate)
  • "Do Multilateral Development Bank Trust Funds Allocate Climate Finance Efficiently?" (2020, Sustainability)

Axel Michaelowa has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, particularly:

  • Aglaja Espelage
  • Katharina Michaelowa
  • Matthias Honegger
  • Matthias Poralla
  • Hanna-Mari Ahonen

Their publications are often featured in specific academic venues, with multiple works published in:

  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • PLOS Climate
  • Climate Policy
  • Politics and Governance

Axel Michaelowa has also contributed to book literature, notably with the publication of The Carbon Market Challenge in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective

    Terry Barker;Igor Bashmakov;Awwad Alharthi;Markus Ammann

  • Policies, Instruments and Co-operative Arrangements

    Sujata Gupta;Dennis Tirpak;Nicholas Burger;Joyeeta Gupta

  • Transaction costs, institutional rigidities and the size of the clean development mechanism

    Axel Michaelowa;Frank Jotzo

  • Transaction costs of the Kyoto Mechanisms

    Axel Michaelowa;Marcus Stronzik;Frauke Eckermann;Alistair Hunt

  • Policies, Instruments and Cooperative Arrangements

    S. Gupta;D. Tirpak;A.I. Boncheva;J. Gupta

  • A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords

    B. Schlamadinger;N. Bird;T. Johns;T. Johns;S. Brown

  • Sufferer and cause: Indian livestock and climate change

    Smita Sirohi;Axel Michaelowa

  • Synergy of adaptation and mitigation strategies in the context of sustainable development: the case of Vietnam

    Hanh H. Dang;Axel Michaelowa;Dao D. Tuan

  • Estimating the CDM market under the Marrakech Accords

    Frank Jotzo;Axel Michaelowa

  • Defining Investment Additionality for CDM projects—practical approaches

    Sandra Greiner;Axel Michaelowa

  • Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid

    Axel Michaelowa;Katharina Michaelowa

  • Climate or development : is ODA diverted from its original purpose?

    Axel Michaelowa;Katharina Michaelowa

  • Evolution of international carbon markets: lessons for the Paris Agreement

    Axel Michaelowa;Igor Shishlov;Dario Brescia

  • CDM potential of bagasse cogeneration in India

    Pallav Purohit;Axel Michaelowa

  • New and additional to what? Assessing options for baselines to assess climate finance pledges

    Martin Stadelmann;J. Timmons Roberts;Axel Michaelowa

  • India as an emerging power in international climate negotiations

    Katharina Michaelowa;Axel Michaelowa

  • Additionality revisited: guarding the integrity of market mechanisms under the Paris Agreement

    Axel Michaelowa;Lukas Hermwille;Wolfgang Obergassel;Sonja Butzengeiger

  • Difficulties in accounting for private finance in international climate policy

    Martin Stadelmann;Axel Michaelowa;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Development assistance and the CDM – how to interpret ‘financial additionality’

    Michael Dutschke;Axel Michaelowa

  • Impact of interest groups on EU climate policy

    Axel Michaelowa

  • CDM host country institution building

    Axel Michaelowa

  • Transaction costs of the Kyoto mechanisms

    Axel Michaelowa;Marcus Stronzik

Frequent Co-Authors

Pallav Purohit
Pallav Purohit International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Grubb
Michael Grubb University College London
Yoshiki Yamagata
Yoshiki Yamagata Keio University
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
J. Timmons Roberts
J. Timmons Roberts Brown University
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
Ottmar Edenhofer
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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