Papers

For an updated and complete list of published articles, check the Google Scholar webpage

A selection of papers by topic:

Behavioural Economics:

Bonan,J. et. al. “The interaction of descriptive and injunctive social norms in promoting energy conservation ” Nature Energy. November 2020 5(11):1-10 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-020-00719-z

Abatayo, A. et. al “Solar geoengineering may lead to excessive cooling and high strategic uncertainty ” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. June 1, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916637117

Fanghella, V., G. d’Adda, and M. Tavoni. “On the Use of Nudges to Affect Spillovers in Environmental Behaviors.” Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00061.

Low carbon strategies:

Gambhir, Ajay, and Massimo Tavoni. “Direct Air Carbon Capture and Sequestration: How It Works and How It Could Contribute to Climate-Change Mitigation.” One Earth 1, no. 4 (December 20, 2019): 405–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.11.006.

Realmonte G. et. al 2019 'An inter-model assessment of the role of direct air capture in deep mitigation pathways', Nature Communications, 10(1)

 Tavoni, M. & Socolow, R. Modeling meets science and technology: an introduction to a special issue on negative emissions. Climatic Change 118, 1–14 (2013). 

Climate impacts and risks:

Lamperti, F., V. Bosetti, A. Roventini, and M. Tavoni. “The Public Costs of Climate-Induced Financial Instability.” Nature Climate Change 9, no. 11 (November 2019): 829–33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558- 019-0607-5.

Ricke, Katharine, Laurent Drouet, Ken Caldeira, and Massimo Tavoni. “Country-Level Social Cost of Carbon.” Nature Climate Change, September 24, 2018, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0282-y

Berger, L., J. Emmerling and M. Tavoni, 2016. “Managing Catastrophic Climate Risks under Model Uncertainty Aversion”, Management Science, doi:10.1287/mnsc.2015.2365

Climate stabilization pathways:

Tavoni, M. et al. Post-2020 climate agreements in the major economies assessed in the light of global models. Nature Clim. Change 5, 119–126 (2015). 

McJeon, H. et al. Limited impact on decadal-scale climate change from increased use of natural gas. Nature 514, 482–485 (2014). 

Clarke, L. et al. International climate policy architectures: Overview of the EMF 22 International Scenarios. Energy Economics 31, S64–S81 (2009). 

Climate policy:

Jewell et al. “Limited Emission Reductions from Fuel Subsidy Removal except in Energy-Exporting Regions.” Nature 554, no. 7691 (February 2018): 229–33. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25467.

Aldy, Pizer, Tavoni et. al 2016 'Economic tools to promote transparency and comparability in the Paris Agreement', Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate3106

Emmerling, Johannes, and Massimo Tavoni. “Exploration of the Interactions between Mitigation and Solar Radiation Management in Cooperative and Non-Cooperative International Governance Settings.” Global Environmental Change 53 (November 1, 2018): 244–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.10.006.

Equity and development:

Chakravarty, S. & Tavoni, M. Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation: Is there a trade off? Energy Economics 40, Supplement 1, S67–S73 (2013). 

Gennaioli, C., and M. Tavoni. 2016. “Clean or Dirty Energy: Evidence of Corruption in the Renewable Energy Sector.” Public Choice, March, 1–30. doi:10.1007/s11127-016-0322-y.

Chakravarty, S. et al. Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 11884–11888 (2009). 

Computational methods:

M. Fontana, S. Vantini and M. Tavoni 2019 'Functional Data Analysis of high-frequency load curves reveals drivers of residential electricity consumption', Plos One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218702

Drouet, L., Bosetti, V. & Tavoni, M. Selection of climate policies under the uncertainties in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Nature Clim. Change 5, 937–940 (2015). 

Marangoni, Tavoni et. al. 2017 'Sensitivity of projected long-term CO2 emissions across the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways', Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate3199