About 4CMR

The Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) is one of the research centres of the Department of Land Economy. We identify and assess policies that reduce the risks of climate change while allowing for global economic development through the study of both mitigation (reducing climate change) and adaptation (reducing the risks when climate change does occur). Our work explores trajectories of mitigation and adaptation policies that simultaneously achieve economic, energy, environmental and public health aims.

Current Research Projects

Carbon CAP

We are part of an EU FP7 network - Carbon CAP - exploring collective action on carbon emissions through consumer-based policies. 4CMR is leading the activities around assessment of the economic, political, legal and social feasibility of policies aimed at reducing global carbon emissions through changes in consumer behaviour.

Wildlife Conservation and Energy

4CMR are part of a Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) project modelling the impacts of renewable energy systems on wildlife globally, with a focus on birdlife. 4CMR's role is to provide scenarios of future deployment patterns of wind energy, based on the Future Technology Transformation model.

Understanding the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

This joint UK-Brazil project uses the technology and decision diffusion model methodology Future Technology Transformations (FTT), under development in Cambridge by a team of 4 researchers led Dr J.-F. Mercure, along with the global macroeconometric model E3ME (www.e3me.com). The project is being led through C-EENRG.

ICE ARC

Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change looks into the current and future changes in Arctic sea ice, and investigates the consequences of these changes both on the economics of the area and globally, and social aspects such as on indigenous peoples. 4CMR is charged with assisting the macroeconomic analysis, led primarily by Lydia Prieg.

MAGIC

4CMR are part of the consortium in the £4.1M Managing Air for Green Inner Cities (MAGIC) grant from the EPSRC as part of the Grand Challenge Research programme. 4CMR's role is to develop cost-benefit methods for health impacts of community designs.