Rethinking Climate Policy - Innovation and the Economics of Resource Creation

About the author

Jean-François Mercure is Professor of Climate Policy at the University of Exeter's Business School, UK. He was Senior Climate Economist at the World Bank. He researches the economics of climate change and advises on policymaking. He has lectured at University of Cambridge, Radboud University and University of Exeter. He is an economist, innovation scholar and complexity scientist, and works on varied topics from energy systems to quantitative finance to geopolitics. He has authored over eighty peer-reviewed articles and the textbook Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance (2022).Hector Pollitt is Senior Climate Economist at The World Bank, focusing on climate policy solutions in East and South East Asia. He was previously the head of modelling and Chief Economist at Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy based in the UK. He has twenty years of experience working with macroeconomic models and providing policy advice on climate policy to national governments and international organisations. He has co-edited two books on sustainability policy in East Asia and has co-authored more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-François Mercure, Pollitt Hector
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.04.2026
• EAN: 9781009708401
• ISBN: 978-1-009-70840-1
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Business innovation, Environmental Economics, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law