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Tradable Climate Liabilities : A Thought Experiment

Billette de Villemeur, Étienne - 2017

We envision the creation of a climate liability market to address climate change. Each period, countries would be made liable for their past responsibility in current climate damage. We show that this yields the same first-best incentives to reduce emissions as a Pigovian tax. Also, because...

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Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change : Heterogeneous Abatement Costs and Voting on Redistribution in a Threshold Public Good Experiment

Greiff, Matthias; Kempa, Karol - 2023

Achieving the collective goal of limiting global warming is challenging, as it requires national contributions, whereas the benefits are shared between contributors and free-riders. We model this global climate problem as a collective-risk social dilemma (CRSD), a threshold public good game. Our...

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Inequality hinders group efforts to avoid environmental disasters

Brown, Thomas C.; Kroll, Stephan - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

Using a threshold public good experiment, we examine how varying degrees of inequality in resources and differences in risk of loss among players affect the success of group efforts to avoid a common loss. We find that when the poor face greater risk than the rich, contributions and success in...

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The influence of collective action on the demand for voluntary climate change mitigation in hypothetical and real situations

Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - 2015

In this experiment, we investigate determinants of the individual demand for voluntary climate change mitigation. Subjects decide between a cash prize and an allowance from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for one ton of CO2 that will be deleted afterwards. We vary the incentives of the decision...

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Does risk communication really decrease cooperation in climate change mitigation?

Bravo, Giangiacomo; Farjam, Mike; Nikolaychuk, Olexandr - 2017

Effective communication of risks involved in the climate change discussion is crucial and despite ambitious protection policies, the possibility of irreversible consequences actually occurring can only be diminished but never ruled out completely. We present a laboratory experiment that studies...

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The demand for global and local environmental protection : experimental evidence from climate change mitigation in Beijing

Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; Wang, Ran; … - 2018

In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading...

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Consumers' willingness to offset their CO2 emissions from traveling : a discrete choice analysis of framing and provider contributions

Schwirplies, Claudia; Dütschke, Elisabeth; Schleich, … - 2017

This paper identifies potential drivers and individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for offsetting their emissions from traveling. We focus on the effects of framing the polluting activity with different modes of transportation (i.e. bus and plane) and travel occasions (i.e. holiday and...

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What about the others? : conditional cooperation, climate change perception and ecological actions

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Gianluigi; Salustri, Francesco - 2023 - This draft: January 2023

Climate challenge can be modelled as a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma where any ecological action - i.e., purchasing an electric car or adopting sustainable life styles - is a costly action in terms of economic resources, time, and effort for individuals. According to the well-known embedded...

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Balancing climate change mitigation and national adaptation : experimental evidence on the influence of risk perceptions and information construal levels

Heckenhahn, Jonas; Feldhaus, Christoph; Löschel, Andreas - 2024

theory and the construal matching premise, we hypothesize that when individuals are faced with an abstract tradeoff between …Der Klimawandel kann auf nationalpolitischer Ebene durch Minderung und Anpassung angegangen werden. Da für beide …?“ beeinflussen. Basierend auf der Construal Level Theory und der Prämisse des Construal Matching hypothetisieren wir, dass, wenn …

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The causal effect of private and organizational climate-related identity on climate protection activities : evidence from a framed field experiment in Japan

Arimura, Toshihide; Groh, Elke D.; Nakai, Miwa; … - 2022

Based on data for more than 2,400 citizens in Japan, this paper empirically examines the effect of climate-related identity in private and organizational contexts on revealed climate protec-tion activities, measured through incentivized donations. To identify causal effects, we include the...

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