Climate Change Sustainability: From Bargaining to Cooperative Balanced Approach

a simple semi-dynamic cooperative bargaining approach

the area of bargaining mechanisms has been well explored in both multi-agent systems and economics. in bargaining, participants raise/reduce their offers until an agreement is hopefully reached. in this dynamic environment, finding superior agreements without having the knowledge about the strategic private information of the counterpart is considerable. in this paper, we present a simple semi-...

Climate change, ethics and sustainability: An innovative approach

Our goal in this article is the analysis of the state of affairs, regarding the phenomenon of climate change and its impact in different areas. We synthesize the various approaches available in the scientific debate on this subject, mainly the one that affirms the existence of global warming and the current approach, which denies it. Beyond the controversy, what seems to be evident is that ther...

Perspectives on climate change and sustainability

Determinants of bargaining success in the climate change negotiations

A novel dataset, combining interview data with negotiation delegates and hand-coded data of delegate statements, was used to empirically test six hypotheses about the determinants of bargaining success in the UNFCCC negotiations. The success of a state’s bargaining strategy was evaluated by first measuring the distance from a state’s original position on 8 policy issues (e.g. emissions reductio...

VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE A Quantitative Approach