NEWS / 2014 ICCG Climate Think Tank Ranking: announcing the results

ICCG is pleased to announce that 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 DC, 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 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 25th, 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.

 

See the results of both rankings at the links below:

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

For further information: ranking@thinktankmap.org / +39.(0)41 2700459.