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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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In this paper, we discuss the endogenous formation of climate coalitions in the tradition of the issue-linkage literature. In particular, we propose a preferential free trade agreement on which a climate coalition should be built. The basic idea is that the benefits of free trade provide strong...
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impact of mitigation and adaptation finance on national emissions of recipient countries. We test the derived hypothesis … using carbon emissions data of non-OECD countries in the last 20 years. We find that public adaptation and mitigation …
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This paper examines the effects of political pressure groups (lobbies) on the emissions abatement decisions of countries and on the stability of international environmental agreements. We consider two types of lobbies, industry and environmentalists. We determine the influence of lobby-groups on...
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Our purpose is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of a Partial Climate Agreement with open entry under a non-cooperative Nash-Equilibrium framework. We evaluate a partial agreement policy in which non-signatory countries can decide to join or to leave a coalition of the willing at any...
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The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...
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climate change now involves both mitigation to address the cause and adaptation as a response to already ongoing or expected … here is, whether adaptation options will be implemented voluntarily by companies or not. The paper argues that this has to …
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This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross …, private adaptation and climate protection activities are determined by different factors and thus cannot be substitutes …. Considering seven climate protection and four adaptation measures, these theoretical predictions are tested empirically using …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation …
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