Can Climate Change Negotiations Succeed?

Climate Change Negotiations

The policy problem posed by climate change is daunting. Absent evidence that climate change is not a risk to human and natural systems, the world faces an unending series of difficult international negotiations about measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. To be successful, the resulting climate regime must be able to survive over many decades, adapting to changing economic conditions, to e...

Multilateral versus sequential negotiations over climate change

Multilateral negotiations over climate change policies

Negotiations in the real world have many features which tend to be ignored in policy modeling. They are often multilateral, involving many negotiating parties with preferences over outcomes that can differ substantially. They are also often multidimensional, in the sense that several policies are negotiated over simultaneously. Trade negotiations are a prime example, as are negotiations over en...

Climate change policy failures: why conventional mitigation approaches cannot succeed.

Multilateralism after the Failure of the DDR and Climate Change Negotiations

 This paper examines the two most important current efforts to devise new rules binding all nations the negotiations in the WTO of trade rules and the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse gases. Both negotiations have failed after several years of intensive effort. There are remarkable parallels in these ...