Paths to climate cooperation

Paths to climate cooperation.

C limate change is the largest commons governance problem that humanity has ever faced. Emissions of greenhouse gases anywhere in the world contribute to radiative forcing everywhere. The impacts of climate change vary greatly from place to place, and the vulnerability to those impacts differs across human groups and across other species, even in a single location. The five nations with the lar...

Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation†

We model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a dynamic game. Countries’ emissions increase atmospheric concentrations of GHG, which negatively affects all countries' welfare. We analyze self-enforcing climate-change treaties that are supportable as subgame perfect equilibria. A simulation model illustrates conditions where a subgame perfect equilibrium supports the first-best outcome. In one of o...

EU-India Cooperation on Climate Change

Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization.

When attempting to avoid global warming, individuals often face a social dilemma in which, besides securing future benefits, it is also necessary to reduce the chances of future losses. In this manuscript, we introduce a simple approach to address this type of dilemmas, in which the risk of failure plays a central role in individual decisions. This model can be shown to capture some of the esse...

THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION Four paths to the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior

The ants and termites have renounced the 'Hobbesian war,' and they are the better for it. Their wonderful nests, their buildings, superior in size relative to man; their paved roads and overground vaulted galleries; their spacious halls and granaries; their cornfields, harvesting and 'malting' grain; their rational method of nursing eggs and larvae, and of building special nests for rearing aph...