Artikel

Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules in international climate negotiations: an empirical analysis

We have collected data from a world-wide survey among COP delegates to empirically investigate preferences for certain burden sharing rules among key groups in a setting that reflects the possibility of observing concessions from negotiating partners. In our survey, the participants had the opportunity to select and combine up to eight (pre-defined) burden sharing rules and to assign relative weights to the selected rules in their preferred bundle. We examine whether such a mechanism helps to overcome the currently strictly (self-interested) strategic claims on equity in the negotiation process. We observe that delegates from different groups of countries show a general willingness for concessions. However, the degree to which different burden sharing rules are taken into consideration partly differs between countries. As a key insight we report that the individual assessment of the polluter-pays rule based on current emissions does not only stress the persistence of the traditional Annex-B/Non-Annex-B division but also suggests tendencies for a more fragmented grouping with different positions between, for example, delegates from developing countries (i.e. G77 members) and emerging countries (i.e. BASIC). At the same time, we observe tendencies for a more harmonized view among key groups towards the ability-to-pay rule in a setting of weighted burden sharing rules.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies ; ISSN: 1867-383X ; Volume: 23 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 309-331 ; Tokyo: Springer Japan

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Public Goods
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Thema
International climate negotiations
Distributive justice
Equity preferences
Burden sharing rules

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kesternich, Martin
Löschel, Andreas
Ziegler, Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer Japan
(wo)
Tokyo
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1007/s10018-020-00289-0
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Kesternich, Martin
  • Löschel, Andreas
  • Ziegler, Andreas
  • Springer Japan

Entstanden

  • 2020

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