Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107746 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 101.2014
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Climate Change
Mitigation
Solar Radiation Management
Cooperation
Differential Game
Asymmetry
Feedback Nash Equilibrium
JEL: 
Q53
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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