An Evolutionary Approach to International Environmental Agreements

Tiziano Distefano () and Simone D'Alessandro ()
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Tiziano Distefano: Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

No 418, SEEDS Working Papers from SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies

Abstract: Our work contributes to explain the origin of the failure or success of international environmental agreements (IEA) and their relation with the actual aggregate global level of greenhouse gas emissions, by including climate risks, cross-country inequalities, and consumer's environmental awareness. We introduce a novel multi-scale framework, composed by two tied games, to show under which conditions a country is able to fulfil the IEA: (i) a one-shot 2x2 Game, with asymmetric countries that negotiate on the maximum share of emissions, and (ii) an Evolutionary Game which describes the economic structure through the interaction of households and rms' strategies.

Keywords: International environmental agreements; asymmetry; evolutionary process; Multi-level perspective; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C72 C73 F53 H41 Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2018-03, Revised 2018-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env, nep-evo, nep-gth and nep-res
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Working Paper: An Evolutionary approach to International Environmental Agreements (2017)
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