A column by Anastasiia Antonova (AMSE), Luis Huxel (University Of Tuebingen), Mykhailo Matvieiev (AMSE) and Gernot Müller (University Of Tübingen) published in VoxEU.
Often accused of dragging environmental policy downward, lobbying can, under certain conditions, have the opposite effect. Recent research shows that it can sometimes push governments to adopt more ambitious policies.