Global awareness of the urgent need to decarbonize the economy has been growing. Although legislative and regulatory actions have been lagging, some businesses have emerged as leaders in this process. In particular, financial institutions as information producers and resource allocators play an...

Intergenerational Governance and Leadership is multi-faceted. Embodied in public and private practices, intergenerational conscientiousness impacts our daily life choices around money management, consumption of energy and nutrition. Intergenerational aspects are also relevant to be considered in...

The company's commitment to meet the challenges of the market depends on the willingness of management to accept and implement solutions. All managers, depending on how fast and passionately they are willing to act, can be divided into three types, according to their “temperature”. How to...

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...

In the age of global warming, pandemics and East-West tensions, the time for science diplomacy has come. To this day, the concept of science diplomacy has never been quantified to highlight the importance and potential of specific countries around the globe to engage in science diplomacy. In the...

This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...