Cooperation and Competition in Climate Change Policies: Mitigation and Climate Engineering when Countries are Asymmetric

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We study a dynamic game of climate policy design in terms of emissions and solar radiation management (SRM) involving two heterogeneous regions or countries. Countries emit greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and can block incoming radiation by unilateral SRM activities, thus reducing global temperature. Heterogeneity is modelled in terms of the social cost of SRM, the environmental damages due to global warming, the productivity of emissions in terms of generating private benefits, the rate of impatience, and the private cost of geoengineering. We determine the impact of asymmetry on mitigation and SRM activities, concentration of GHGs, and global temperature, and we examine whether a trade-off actually emerges between mitigation and SRM. Our results could provide some insights into a currently emerging debate regarding mitigation and SRM methods to control climate change, especially since asymmetries seem to play an important role in affecting incentives for cooperation or unilateral actions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 101.2014

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: Climate Change ; Mitigation ; Solar Radiation Management ; Cooperation ; Differential Game ; Asymmetry ; Feedback Nash Equilibrium

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Manoussi, Vassiliki ; Xepapadeas, Anastasios
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/107746
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET