Aug 2025
Journal

A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them
in Sustainability Science
Timothy M. Lenton , Thomas W. R. Powell , Steven R. Smith , Frank W. Geels , Floor Alkemade , Martina Ayoub , Pete Barbrook-Johnson , Scarlett Benson , Fenna Blomsma , Chris A. Boulton , Joshua E. Buxton , Sara M. Constantino , Sibel Eker , Kai Greenlees , Thomas Homer‑Dixon , Kelly Levin , Michael B. Mascia , Femke Nijsse , Ilona M. Otto , Viktoria Spaiser , Simon Sharpe , Talia Smith

Jun 2025
Article

Tackling transformational change in climate policy appraisal: experiences and perceptions of United Kingdom policy analysts
Cormac Lynch , Pete Barbrook-Johnson , Pablo Salas Bravo , Jean-Francois Mercure , Femke Nijsse , Jin Qin , Roberto Pasqualino

Apr 2024
Report

Power sector futures in China: A multi-model approach to understanding China’s carbon-neutral pathways and power sector reform
Arabella Miller-Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Peter Barbrook-Johnson , Yixuan Zhang , Pim Vercoulen , Femke Nijsse , Yuyan Weng , Simon Sharpe , Jean-Francois Mercure , Michael Grubb , Xiliang Zhang

Sept 2021
Journal

Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal
in Global Environmental Change
Jean-Francois Mercure , Simon Sharpe , Jorge E. Vinaules , Matthew Ives , Michael Grubb , Aileen Lam , Paul Drummond , Hector Pollitt , Florian Knobloch , Femke Nijsse

Jun 2021
Policy Briefing

Deciding how to 'change big things quickly': Pros and cons of different appraisal techniques to inform decision-making on low-carbon transformational policies
Jean-Francois Mercure , Matthew Ives , Femke Nijsse , Peter Barbrook-Johnson

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