More recently I classify much of my work as “climate policy and economics”. Today this is one of the defining issues of our time – but it connects very much to my earlier studies of energy demand elasticities and to discounting.

Articles

• Hagem, C., Hoel, M., & Sterner, T. (2020). “Refunding Emission Payments: OutputBased versus Expenditure-Based Refunding”. Environmental and Resource Economics, 1-27.
• Mukanjari, S., Sterner, T. (2020). “Charting a “Green Path” for Recovery from COVID-19“. Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Hänsel, M.C., Drupp, M.A., Johansson, D.J.A. et al. (2020). “Climate economics support for the UN climate targets“. Nat. Clim. Chang.
• Damania, R., Sterner, T & Whittington, D. (2020). “Environmental policy instruments and corruption“, China Economic Journal.
• Damon, M., Cole, D. H., Ostrom, E., and Sterner, T. (2019). “Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 23–42.
• Larsson, J., Elofsson, A., Sterner, T., and Åkerman, J. (2019). “International and national climate policies for aviation: a review”, Climate Policy, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 787-799.
• Sterner, T. (2018), ”Fiscal measures when climate negotiations are not feasible”, Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, vol 1, no, pp. 77–80.
• Revesz, R., M. Greenstone, M. Hanemann, J. Schwartz, and T. Sterner. (2017). “Best cost estimate of greenhouse gases”, Science, vol. 357, no 6352, p. 655. DOI: 10.1126/science.aao4322
• Howard, P. and T. Sterner. (2017). “Few and not so far between – A meta-analysis of climate damage estimates”, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 68, pp. 197-225.
• Revesz, R. L., J. A. Schwartz, P. H. Howard, K. Arrow, M. A. Livermore, M. Oppenheimer and T. Sterner. (2017). “Letter – The Social Cost of Carbon: A Global Imperative”. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy , vol. 11 , no 1, pp. 172-173.
• Sterner, T. (2015). “Higher costs of climate change”, Nature, vol. 527, pp. 177-178.
• Sterner, T. (2015). “Beyond IPCC, Research for Paris 2015 and Beyond”, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 207-215.
• Sterner, T. and G. Köhlin. (2015). “Pricing carbon: The challenges” in Barrett S., C. Carraro and J. de Melo (eds) “Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime“, CEPR Press, London.
• Wagner, G, T Kåberger, S Olai, M Oppenheimer, K Rittenhouse and T Sterner. (2015). Push Renewables to spur carbon pricing. Nature, vol 525, pp. 27-29. DOI:10.1038/525027a
• Camuzeaux, J., R. Alvarez, S Brooks, J Browne, and T. Sterner (2015). “Influence of Methane Emissions and Vehicle Efficiency on the Climate Implications of Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Trucks”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 49, no 11, pp. 6402-6410.
• Green, J., T Sterner and G Wagner. (2014). “A balance of ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ in linking climate policies”, Nature Climate Change , Vol 4, pp 1064-1067.
• R L Revesz, P H Howard, K Arrow, L H Goulder, R E Kopp, M A Livermore, M Oppenheimer and T Sterner. (2014). “Global warming: Improve economic models of climate change”, Nature , vol 508, pp. 173–175.
• Hammar, H. , T Sterner and S Åkerfeldt, (2013). ”Sweden’s CO2 tax and taxation reform experiences” in Genevey, R., Pachauri, R., Tubiana, L., (eds) Reducing Inequalities: A Sustainable Development Challenge, TERI Press, New Delhi, and in French, Genevey, R., Pachauri, R., Tubiana, L. (2013) Regards sur la terre 2013 – Réduire les inégalités : un enjeu de développement durable, Armand Colin, Paris, Mars 2013
• Damon, M and T. Sterner, (2012), “Policy Instruments for Sustainable Development at Rio 20”, The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol 21, no. 2, pp. 143-151, Introduction to Special Issue edited by Damon and Sterner.
• Wei, J., Johansson, D., Hennlock, M. and Sterner, T. (2012). “The Fossil Endgame: Strategic Oil Price Discrimination and Carbon Taxation”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy,  vol. 1, no. 1,  pp. 48-69
• Fischer, C., Torvanger, A., Shrivastava, M. K., Sterner, T. and Stigson, P. (2012). “How should support for Climate-friendly Technologies be designed?”, Ambio, vol. 41 pp. 33-45.
• Sterner, T (2012) “Distributional effects of taxing transport fuel” Energy Policy, vol. 41, pp. 75-83.
• Zetterberg, L., Wråke, M., Sterner, T., Fischer, C., Burtraw, D. (2012). “Short-Run Allocation of Emissions Allowances and Long-Term Goals for Climate Policy”, Ambio, vol. 41, pp. 23-32.
• Fischer, C & T Sterner (2011). “Climate Policy, Uncertainty, and the Role of Technological Innovation”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol.14, no.2, pp. 285–309.
• Sterner, T. and M. Damon. (2011). “Green Growth in the Post-Copenhagen Climate Energy Policy”, Energy Policy, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 7165-7173
• Sterner, T. (2011). “Engagements volontaires et croissance verte dans l’ère d’après Copenhague (Voluntary Pledges and Green Growth in the Post-Copenhagen Climate” Revue d’Economie du Développement, vol. 23, pp 115-151.
• Mendelsohn R, T. Sterner, M. Persson and J P Weyant, (2008) “Comments on Simon Dietz and Nicholas Stern’s Why Economic Analysis Supports Strong Action on Climate Change: A Response to the Stern Review’s Critics”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol 2, no 2, pp. 309–313,
• Sterner, T, (2007). “Fuel Taxes: An important instrument for climate policy”, Energy Policy, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 3194-3202.