Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119706 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 94.2002
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Scientific and economic consensus increasingly points to the need for a credible and cost-effective approach to address the threat of global climate change, but the Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change appears incapable of inducing significant participation and compliance. We assess the Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures that have been proposed, with particular attention to their respective abilities to induce participation and compliance. We find that those approaches that offer cost-effective mitigation are unlikely to induce significant participation and compliance, while those approaches that are likely to enjoy a reasonably high level of implementation by sovereign states are sorely lacking in terms of their anticipated cost effectiveness. The feasible set of policy architectures is thus limited to second-best alternatives. Much more attention needs to be given — both by scholarly research and by international negotiations — to aspects of future international climate agreements that will affect the degrees of participation and compliance that can reasonably be expected to be forthcoming.
Subjects: 
compliance
cost effectiveness
global climate change
international agreements
participation
JEL: 
Q2
Q3
Q4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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