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Overview

Hector Pollitt is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields with strong emphasis on economics, environmental science, and energy. Pollitt has contributed extensively to studies related to climate change policy, sustainability, and energy transition processes.

The scientific work of Pollitt covers a broad spectrum of topics that include:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

The main fields of study for Pollitt include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science
  • Energy

Subfields of specific focus are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science

Pollitt's recent notable publications are:

  • "Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands," 2020, Nature
  • "Net emission reductions from electric cars and heat pumps in 59 world regions over time," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "The momentum of the solar energy transition," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Reframing incentives for climate policy action," 2021, Nature Energy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pollitt include:

  • Jean-François Mercure
  • Philip B. Holden
  • Neil R. Edwards
  • Unnada Chewpreecha
  • Pablo Salas

Pollitt has published multiple works through established academic publishers, including several books and reports under the World Bank eBooks imprint. Noteworthy book publications are:

  • A Climate Transition Risk Assessment for the Banking Sector of the Philippines (2024)
  • The Potential Cascading Impacts of Climate Change in Cambodia (2024)
  • The Road Not Taken?: Responding to the Energy Price Shock in East Asia (2022)

Pollitt frequently publishes in specific journals, with several papers appearing in venues such as:

  • Climate Policy
  • Energy Policy
  • Nature
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Global energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050

    Dolf Gielen;Ricardo Gorini;Nicholas Wagner;Rodrigo Leme

  • Macroeconomic impact of stranded fossil fuel assets

    Jean-Francois Mercure;Jean-Francois Mercure;Hector Pollitt;Jorge Vinuales;Neil Edwards;Neil Edwards

  • Net emission reductions from electric cars and heat pumps in 59 world regions over time

    Florian Knobloch;Florian Knobloch;Steef V. Hanssen;Aileen Lam;Aileen Lam;Hector Pollitt

  • Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies

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  • The momentum of the solar energy transition

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  • Carbon leakage from unilateral Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe, 1995–2005

    Terry Barker;Sudhir Junankar;Hector Pollitt;Philip Summerton

  • Modelling complex systems of heterogeneous agents to better design sustainability transitions policy

    Jean-Francois Mercure;Jean-Francois Mercure;Hector Pollitt;Andrea M Bassi;Jorge Enrique Viñuales

  • Reframing incentives for climate policy action

    JF Mercure;JF Mercure;P Salas;P Vercoulen;G Semieniuk;G Semieniuk

  • System complexity and policy integration challenges: the Brazilian Energy-Water-Food Nexus

    J.-F. Mercure;M. A. Paim;P. Bocquillon;P. Bocquillon;S. Lindner;S. Lindner;S. Lindner

  • Environmental impact assessment for climate change policy with the simulation-based integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE

    Jean-Francois Mercure;Jean-Francois Mercure;Hector Pollitt;Neil R. Edwards;Neil R. Edwards;Philip B. Holden

  • The role of money and the financial sector in energy-economy models used for assessing climate and energy policy.

    Hector Pollitt;Jean-Francois Mercure

  • The dynamics of technology diffusion and the impacts of climate policy instruments in the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector

    J.-F. Mercure;H. Pollitt;U. Chewpreecha;P. Salas

  • Modelling innovation and the macroeconomics of low-carbon transitions: theory, perspectives and practical use

    Jean-Francois Mercure;Florian Knobloch;Hector Pollitt;Leonidas Paroussos

  • Increasing carbon and material productivity through environmental tax reform

    Paul Ekins;Hector Pollitt;Philip Summerton;Unnada Chewpreecha

  • The implications for households of environmental tax reform (ETR) in Europe

    Paul Ekins;Hector Pollitt;Jennifer Barton;Daniel Blobel

  • Energy modelling and the Nexus concept

    Floor Brouwer;Georgios Avgerinopoulos;Dora Fazekas;Chrysi Laspidou

  • Consumption-based carbon accounting: sense and sensibility

    Arnold Tukker;Arnold Tukker;Hector Pollitt;Maurits Henkemans

  • Simulating the deep decarbonisation of residential heating for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

    Florian Knobloch;Florian Knobloch;Hector Pollitt;Unnada Chewpreecha;Vassilis Daioglou;Vassilis Daioglou

  • Climate–carbon cycle uncertainties and the Paris Agreement

    P. B. Holden;N. R. Edwards;A. Ridgwell;R. D. Wilkinson

  • Beyond peak emission transfers: historical impacts of globalization and future impacts of climate policies on international emission transfers

    Richard Wood;Michael Grubb;Annela Anger-Kraavi;Hector Pollitt

  • A new economics approach to modelling policies to achieve global 2020 targets for climate stabilisation

    Terry Barker;Annela Anger;Unnada Chewpreecha;Hector Pollitt

  • The role of money and the financial sector in energy-economy models used for assessing climate policy

    H. Pollitt;Jean-Francois Mercure

  • Modelling the economic effects of COVID-19 and possible green recovery plans: a post-Keynesian approach

    Hector Pollitt;Richard Lewney;Bence Kiss-Dobronyi;Xinru Lin

  • Integrated assessment modelling as a positive science: private passenger road transport policies to meet a climate target well below 2 ∘C.

    J.F.A. Mercure;J.F.A. Mercure;A. Lam;A. Lam;S. Billington;H. Pollitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil R. Edwards
Neil R. Edwards The Open University
Karsten Neuhoff
Karsten Neuhoff German Institute for Economic Research
Arnold Tukker
Arnold Tukker Leiden University
Vassilis Daioglou
Vassilis Daioglou Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Paul Ekins
Paul Ekins University College London
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Michael Williams
Michael Williams Uppsala University
Michael Grubb
Michael Grubb University College London
Klaus Fraedrich
Klaus Fraedrich Max Planck Society
Colin Kirkpatrick
Colin Kirkpatrick University of Manchester

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