&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …

with some basic economic incentives that are pushing countries towards the formation of two (or more) parallel climate … blocs. To this aim, this paper uses a well known integrated assessment climate-economy model to evaluate the incentives to … cooperation in climate negotiations for the main world countries. A game-theoretic framework is adopted to analyse a country …