This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...

This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...

This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...

Environmental degradation and the risks from climate change have strengthened the need for cleaner forms of economic growth. Using patent, trade and output data, we measure the current size of Asia’s low-carbon economy and assess its competitiveness across key sectors. We look at three success...

Does knowledge from dirty technologies spill over to clean technologies? This question has implications for the ease of switching from dirty to clean R&D. We measure knowledge spillovers using the proportion of citations in clean patents that directly refer to dirty technologies and the degrees...

Achieving mitigation targets under the Paris Agreement will depend on the early retirement of coal mines and plants over the next decade. In the absence of sufficiently stringent demand-side policies, supplyside injunctions provide a potential avenue to expedite the decline of coal. In many...