Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change policy often take note of two issues: the feasibility and desirability of international cooperation on climate change policies, given the failure of the United States to ratify Kyoto and the very limited involvement of developing countries, and the...

Introductory notions -- The reference economic-ecological model -- Economic theory concepts -- Game theory concepts -- The global externality game (GEG) -- The dynamic GEG -- The dynamic GEG in numbers -- Coalitional stability in the GEG -- Policy and diplomacy: a GEG interpretation of the...

In this paper we test empirically with the Nordhaus and Yang (1996) RICE model the core property of the transfer scheme advocated by Germain, Toint and Tulkens (1997). This scheme is designed to sustain full cooperation in a voluntary international environmental agreement by making all countries...