Fairness Views and Beliefs about the International Distribution of Climate Change Costs

Davide Domenico Pace and Johanna Kober
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Davide Domenico Pace: LMU Munich, CesIfo
Johanna Kober: LMU Munich

No 584, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

Abstract: International climate negotiations focus on three distinct climate change costs: mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. This paper measures voters' fairness views about how these costs should be allocated between nations, and investigates whether fairness views and beliefs about a country's responsibility matter for policy support. In an online survey experiment, the paper finds that fairness views vary with the type of cost, that voters underestimate their country responsibility, and that fairness views and beliefs jointly predict voters' climate policy preferences. The paper also implements tailored treatments to test whether fairness views and beliefs causally affect policy support, but it finds no evidence of a causal link. The results highlight that, to be consistent with citizens' fairness ideals, the international distribution of mitigation costs should differ from the one of adaptation and loss and damage.

Keywords: climate change; international negotiations; policy support; fairness; misperceptions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D91 F53 H41 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-08-30
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