The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence … of alternative climate regimes. This paper explores the idea of replacing international cooperation on greenhouse gas … emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently …

Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex … to assess the relative performances of different climate policies, when long term economic, social and environmental … climate policies and is here presented through an application to a sample of eleven global climate policies, considered as …

) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First …, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield numerical results that do not support the conclusion that ambitious climate …

emission reductions but cooperates on the development of new, climate friendly technologies that reduce the costs of abatement …

cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China …, that are most important in the climate negotiation process. Our analysis confirms the conjecture that, by appropriately … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …

No international regime on climate change is going to be fully effective in controlling GHG emissions without the … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this … paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control …

with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia’s behaviour in the context … of climate negotiations received increasing attention. The main focus has been on the economic and international aspects …

eventually ratify the Kyoto Protocol. This paper analyses three different climate regimes in which China could be involved and …