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 … comparison of the social, the environmental and the economic dimensions of the policy’s impact. This is commonly done in a … to assess the relative performances of different climate policies, when long term economic, social and environmental …

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 …

paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control …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 …

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 …

and policy strategies that might help the US to modify its current policy and move back to the Kyoto-Bonn agreement. For … reduce GHG emissions? Is a single emission trading market the appropriate policy framework to increase participation in the … eventually ratify the Kyoto Protocol. This paper analyses three different climate regimes in which China could be involved and …

) 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 …