Climate Think Tank Ranking 2014: CMCC featured again as one of the best center for climate research

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The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) has published the results of its 2014 “Climate Think Tank Ranking” of the most cutting-edge institutions working in the field of climate change economics and policy.
The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA)
is confirmed for the second year in a row as the top “climate think tank” according to the ICCG Climate Think Tank Standardized Ranking.
Second comes the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) 
based in Berlin, Germany. Third is Resources for the Future (RFF)
 based in Washington, D.C., USA.
This ranking standardizes a think tank’s output (organized along three pillars: activities, publications, dissemination) with respect to the size of the think tank.

The top think tank in the non-standardized Absolute Ranking is The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

, whose headquarters are in Arlington, USA. Second comes the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), based in Leipzig, Germany. Third is the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

, based in Laxenburg, Austria.

The ranking features the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) as one of the most important organizations; more in detail, the CMCC is ranked 15th in the Absolute Ranking and 26th in the Standardized Ranking.
This result represents an important recognition of CMCC’s work in Italy and at the international level.

The third edition of ICCG’s Climate Think Tank Ranking assessed 244 non-University affiliated think tanks specialized in the field of climate change economics and policy, which figured in the Think Tank Map observatory 
as of February 2015.
The top think tank has been announced on June 25, 2015, by ICCG Director Carlo Carraro at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE, Helsinki, Finland).
The award ceremony will be held in Milan in Autumn 2015.

In contrast to other think tank rankings, the ICCG ranking is based on a solid quantitative methodology and solid analytical data. Think tanks were assessed on a set of 15 indicators structured in three main pillars: Activities, Publications and Dissemination.
As in the previous editions, two different rankings were built. The first was the Standardized Ranking, which measured the think tanks’ efficiency in per capita/researcher terms, while the Absolute Ranking measured the think tanks’ performance regardless of their efficiency and hence size.
The ICCG’s 2014 Climate Think Tank Award for the highest impact think tank working on climate change economics and policy is based on the standardized ranking. It has been granted for the second time in a row to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC).

Download the 2014 Standardized and Absolute Rankings
Download the 2014 full Methodological Report

More information on the ICCG’s Think Tank Map website.

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