Drawing on recent examples of the Paris Agreement talks and Trump's vivid efforts to make America's energy potential great again, I argue that attempts to resolve the issue of climate change through the constrained channels of an international environmental treaty would eventually fail. From the...

Climate change and climate change policy raise important issues of intergenerational and international justice. Intergenerational justice requires that CO2 emissions be halted by the middle of this century or shortly thereafter. But since human development requires energy, the elimination of...

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...