Global governance institutions for climate change, such as those established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an...

The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides technology based global anthropogenic emissions data of greenhouse gases and air pollutants by country and sector on a 0.1° x 0.1° spatial grid, on a timeline that ranges from 1970 to present days. As part of the...

A global monopoly supplier country of green goods which are essential for the provision of global environmental public goods optimally subsidizes the export of such goods in an interior contribution equilibrium. This is not counterbalanced by an incentive to improve the terms-of-trade, since any...

For their further existence and well-being, the globe and humankind rely on the climate and its stability, which is impacted by greenhouse gas emission all over the globe. In general public debate and in social sciences terminology, the climate undoubtedly is seen as a global common which is in...

Republic of Korea is taking a leading role in mitigating climate change and the Paris Agreement will definitely boost its efforts as it enters into force sooner or later. This Agreement obliges its Parties to pursue domestic mitigation measures with the aim of achieving the objectives of their...