What the Framework Convention on Climate Change Teaches Us About Cooperation on Climate Change

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...

EHPnet: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international response to our planet's changing climate. Serving as a means through which governments have opted to deal with the threat of global warming, the UNFCCC was adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The ultimate objective of the convention is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the UN, r a...

What do glaciers tell us about climate change?

Glacier are pretty and move around a lot on the landscape due to the random stochastic climate forcing inherent to a constant climate. They obviously also respond to changes in climate. The tricky part is whether, in absence of direct instrumental measurements, climate changes can be inferred from variations in glacier length.

EU-India Cooperation on Climate Change

What to Do about Climate Change

track assessment of the global impacts of climate change, a major input to the much-heralded Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, indicates that through the year 2100, the contribution of climate change to human health and environmental threats will generally be overshadowed by factors not related to climate change. Hence, climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important ...