Harry Fearnehough focuses on the sustainable development impacts of climate action as well as the role and design of international carbon markets. He is an economist with over a decade of experience working with key stakeholders around the world on various aspects of climate and energy-related policy, including analysis of carbon pricing schemes; the economic and health-related impacts of climate action; renewable energy and energy efficiency policies; and financing the deployment of low-carbon technologies. Harry’s current research focuses on identifying and appraising financial instruments to facilitate early retirement of fossil fuel assets, with a focus on the Indonesian Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP);  the role of voluntary and compliance carbon markets in supporting the Paris Agreement goals as well as alternative models such as ‘climate contributions’; assessing the robustness of corporate climate pledges; and developing tools to analyse the sustainable development impacts of decarbonisation pathways in the energy supply and transport sectors. Prior to joining NewClimate Institute, Harry spent five years working as an economic consultant in London, focusing on energy and environmental markets, and three years at a large energy company. He holds economics degrees from the University of Bristol and the Toulouse School of Economics. 

 

Caution on co-firing, retrofitting, and carbon credits for retirement: Considerations for public development banks on coal phase-out risks
Publication date 07 Mar 2024

This report was co-written by NewClimate Institute and the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE). The first global stocktake decision...

Financing coal phase-out: Public development banks’ role in the early retirement of coal plants
Publication date 07 Mar 2024

This report was co-written by NewClimate Institute and the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE). Limiting global average temperature...

Identifying finance needs for a just transformation of Indonesia’s power sector
Publication date 21 Feb 2024

An analysis using the Just Energy Transition Finance Needs tool // JET-FIN Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (or ’JETP’)...

Shifting voluntary climate finance to the high hanging fruit of climate action
Publication date 21 Jul 2023

The high hanging fruit of mitigation potential refers to the technologies and measures to decarbonise emission sources that remain...

A guide to climate contributions: Taking responsibility for emissions without offsetting
Publication date 05 Jul 2023

This document aims to help address a growing demand for guidance on how companies can take responsibility for their emissions by...

Financing Coal Phase-out: The Role of Public Development Banks

Limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5°C requires stopping the construction of new coal power plants, and that many existing...

Finance needs for Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership

Indonesia announced a Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) with the G7, Denmark and Norway at the G20 summit, hosted in Bali in...

Increasing transparency and integrity of corporate climate pledges

NewClimate Institute is partnering with Carbon Market Watch to address key gaps in the evolving landscape of corporate climate pledges...

Advancing the COMPASS toolbox to assess climate action

NewClimate Institute is an implementing partner of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), supporting its work to...

Appraising policy choices for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Rules for the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement are still under negotiation at the international level, with a key...

AIRPOLIM-T

The AIRPOLIM-T uses an accessible methodology for quantifying the health impacts of air pollution from the transport sector that can be...

COMPASS toolbox

The Climate action Outcomes and Mitigation Policy Assessment “COMPASS” toolbox is a selection of climate scenario modelling tools...

CLIMTRADE - Impacts of climate regulation on trade

The CLIMTRADE tool allows users to analyse a range of economic impacts associated with carbon border adjustments. The Excel-based tool...

SCREEN - Screening for sustainable development and climate action in green recovery

The Sustainable development and climate action green recovery screening tool, or SCREEN, provides policymakers and analysts with a...

TRACE - Co-benefits in decarbonising transport

The Transport sector climate action co-benefits evaluation tool, or TRACE, is an Excel-based model to support quantitative evaluation...

Estimation of the carbon offset credit supply potential

The carbon offset credit supply potential tools provide bottom-up estimates of the volume of credits that could be issued under a range...

AIRPOLIM-ES (Air Pollution Impact Model for Electricity Supply)

The AIRPOLIM-ES is an accessible, Excel-based tool that estimates the health impacts of air pollution from different sources of...

EIM-ES (Economic Impact Model for Electricity Supply)

The EIM-ES is a transparent, Excel-based tool that estimates the domestic employment impacts of investments in the electricity supply...

Online event: The potential impact of transitioning CDM units and activities to the Paris Agreement
Venue Online
Date 21 Oct 2021

Harry Fearnehough (NewClimate) and Lambert Schneider (Öko Institut) presented updated research on the potential supply of credits from...

Event: Costs and climate impact of offsetting emissions under CORSIA
Venue Innovate4Climate in Frankfurt
Date 22 May 2018

Carsten Warnecke, Thomas Day, Harry Fearnehough and Lambert Schneider presented on "Costs and climate impact of offsetting emissions...

Walking the tightrope of Indonesia's energy transition: Boosting jobs or leaving coal communities behind?
Publication date 08 Nov 2023

As the Government of Indonesia prepares to publicly launch its first iteration of plans to deliver on the goals of the Just Energy...

FAQs - Climate contributions
Publication date 05 Jul 2023

In our document " A guide to climate contributions: Taking responsibility for emissions without offsetting" we aim to help address a...

The climate and health double dividend
Publication date 30 May 2022

GO TO THE AIRPOLIM TOOL Accelerating the global coal phase-out can prevent millions of premature deaths from poor air quality An early...

Press Release – Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022
Publication date 07 Feb 2022

Go to the report / Read the Q&A with the authors Download the methodology / Watch press conference Major companies largely fail net...

Switzerland’s bilateral agreements to offset their emissions set a poor precedent for ambition ahead of COP26
Publication date 28 Oct 2021

Photo by Mostafa Meraji through Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. No changes were made except for a format change. Switzerland has...

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