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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Improving international cooperation on emission abatement

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

A deeper, broader and methodologically varied analysis of international climate cooperation: * International climate treaty design. Extending game theoretic models to analyse the effects of novel mechanisms on incentives for participation, compliance and enforcement in future international climate treaties. For instance, should the treaty include a conditional resource transfer among signatories such that a nation unable or unwilling to meet its obligations can pay a predetermined fine to the other signa tories? This will both increase the incentive to participate (since you may receive financial transfers), as well as reducing the cost uncertainty of joining by setting a cost ceiling. Also: What are the implications of allowing for inequality between co untries? (subproject A). * Norms, reciprocity and international climate treaties: Combining behavioral economics and game theory, how may norms and ethics influence international climate treaties? Nations may have broader concerns than just maximizing the ir own economic outcomes, such as fairness and reciprocity concerns and/or concern for developing countries. This influences the potential for broad participation in self-enforcing international climate agreements, including participation from developing countries (subproject B). * National policy support. Experimental and behavioral economic studies of judgments behind public attitudes towards climate policies. What determines and influences these perceptions, e.g., the negative attitudes towards permit trading, and how can such policy instruments be adjusted or reframed so as to make them more acceptable to voters and thus more implementable in democracies? (subproject C). This knowledge is directly relevant for policy design, and will be particularly relevant for the ministries and state agencies (in particular Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance and the Norwegian Pollution Control Agency), and environmental NGOs

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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge