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An Adaptation-Mitigation Game : Does Adaptation Promote Participation in International Environmental Agreements?
Submitter, FEEM RPS; Borrero, Miguel; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2021
This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence the participation in an international environmental agreement (IEA) when countries decide in adaptation before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types of agreements are studied, a complete agreement for which countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226251
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Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements : Adaptation and Complementarity
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2018
that the larger the gains of full cooperation, the larger the cooperation. However, in the second case, the unique stable … agreement we find consists of three countries regardless of the gains of full cooperation. These results suggest that … complementarity can play in favor of cooperation but that it is not a sufficient condition to obtain more participation in an emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111748
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Sharing R&D Investments in Cleaner Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change
El-Sayed, Abeer - 2014
This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to … spillover effects of their investments in R&D. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, an agreement formation game is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053626
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Sharing R&D Investments in Breakthrough Technologies to Control Climate Change
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016
This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, a three-stage technology agreement formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128970
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Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2015
Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214441
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Climate Policy Commitment Devices
Dengler, Sebastian - 2017
lock the economy into carbon-free energy sources provide an important commitment device in the intertemporal cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947611
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Climate Change, Armed Conflicts and Resilience
D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022
In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts. Although no conclusionary evidence has been found of a direct link between climate change and armed conflicts, still climate change has been addressed as an important trigger,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306417
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Quantifying Non-Cooperative Climate Engineering
Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
other nations, has been recently proposed as a potentially powerful additional externality to the traditional free riding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941078
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Leadership and International Climate Cooperation
Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2014
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060204
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The Effect of Risk, Ambiguity and Coordination on Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change : A Framed Field Experiment
Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Naranjo, Maria - 2015
The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193176