Advancing the science and design of market-based mechanisms for a sustainable future
I lead the MIDD Lab at Imperial College London, where we develop quantitative and qualitative methodologies to design, evaluate and improve market-based mechanisms. Our work supports four key stakeholders in making better decisions for climate and sustainability outcomes.
Understand developer and buyer behaviour, preferences and barriers to adoption.
Market opportunity sizing, revenue potential, and purchase agreement likelihood.
Evaluate market sentiment, risk perceptions and investment priorities.
Investment readiness scoring, country intelligence and risk-adjusted returns.
MECHANISMS
ETS · Carbon Taxes · CBAM · CfDs/CCfDs
Fuel Mandates · Feebates · Carbon Insets
Internal Carbon Pricing · Voluntary Carbon Markets
and more…
Assess organisational readiness, risk appetite and decision drivers.
Compliance cost estimation and technology viability within cost constraints.
Understand policy objectives, political economy and stakeholder perspectives.
Policy impact analysis, deployment and abatement projections under scenarios.
Our approach: quantitative rigor · qualitative insight · real-world impact
Economic modelling, optimisation, econometrics and machine learning on large-scale datasets to evaluate policy impacts, investment viability, compliance costs and market outcomes across sectors and geographies.
Stakeholder engagement, interviews, surveys and behavioural analysis to understand decision-making, barriers, incentives and real-world responses to market-based mechanisms across the four key stakeholder groups.
Actionable intelligence, decision-support tools and dashboards that enable better decisions, reduce investment risk and accelerate the transition to a sustainable, cost-effective future.
Projects
A global view of the market-based mechanisms, sectors and cleantech categories covered across the MIDD Lab's research portfolio. Click a country to see the mechanisms, sectors and researchers involved.
Researchers in the MIDD Lab
Publications categorised by research area, sourced from Google Scholar and Imperial College London. Circle size represents the number of publications in each area.
- Can current market-based mechanisms in the USA commercialise deep decarbonisation solutions? (2025)
- A Comparative Assessment of Policies to Support Heat Decarbonisation in an Industrial Site Utility System (2020)
- Pathways to Clean Energy Transition in Indonesia's Electricity Sector with OSeMOSYS (2024)