Effective and Stable International Climate Accords

This research project aims at identifying the fundamental drivers of effectiveness (in welfare and environmental terms) and game theoretic stability of international climate policy agreements. Methodologically, the project will combine the latest developments in the game theoretical analysis of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs modelled as a global public good) with advanced statistical analysis of numerical simulation results produced with an Integrated Assessment (IA) economy-climate model. This approach allows us to focus on heterogeneity of countries and regions in relevant background parameters like vulnerability to climate change damages, mitigation and adaptation costs and stage of development for instance. The output of this project consists of an updated numerical IA model, a set of state-of-the-art publications aiming at top journals in the field of economics and climate change, a successful completion of a PhD and policy recommendations for the design of future IEAs.

Keywords:climate change, environmental economics, game theory, international environmental agreements, integrated assessment modeling

Disciplines:Sustainable and environmental engineering, Atmospheric sciences, Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Atmospheric sciences, challenges and pollution, Applied economics, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism