can be seen in the context of the <p> Bootleggers and Baptist theory developed by Yandle (1983), where the Baptists (in … suggested that a coalition of environmentalists and industrialists successfully lobbied the <p> US Congress. More strict … focus both on cases from air <p> and water pollution in the US confirming which seem to confirm this suggestion and the case …

the EU, the US will be imposed considerably higher costs than the negotiations in Kyoto were based on. Thus, to make the … US stay in an international GHG emission- trading scheme, the EU must reconsider and acknowledge US claims for cheaper … the World Trade Organization as an international authority. Because the US face much higher future reduction costs than …

Why has the EU been so eager to continue the climate negotiations? Can it be solely attributed to the <p> EU feeling … interests in the EU, at least partly, explain the behaviour of the EU? We <p> suggest that the individual member countries in … the EU, such as Germany and Denmark, have a <p> rational economic interest in forcing the technological development of …