Domestic Pressure and International Climate Cooperation

Annual Review of Resource Economics, forthcoming

28 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2021

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Alessandro Tavoni

University of Bologna; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

Ralph Winkler

University of Bern - Department of Economics; University of Bern - Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

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Date Written: July 28, 2021

Abstract

In the wake of 25 UN Climate Change Conferences of the Parties (and counting), international cooperation on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to avoid substantial and potentially irreversible climate change remains an important challenge. The limited impact that the Kyoto Protocol has had on curbing emissions, and the gap between the ambitions of its successor and the Paris Agreement's lack of sanctioning mechanisms for addressing non-compliance, demonstrates both the difficulties in negotiating ambitious environmental agreements and the reluctance of countries to comply with their agreed emission targets once they have joined the treaty. Therefore, a better understanding of the obstacles and opportunities that the interactions between domestic and international policy pose for the design of successful international climate cooperation is of utmost importance. To shed light on the roots of the stalemate (and suggest possible ways out), this article reviews, and draws lessons from, a growing theoretical, experimental and empirical literature that accounts for the hierarchical interplay between domestic political pressure and international climate policy.

Keywords: international climate cooperation, hierarchical policy-making, domestic pressure, special interest groups, (strategic) delegation

JEL Classification: D72, P48, Q54, Q58

Suggested Citation

Tavoni, Alessandro and Winkler, Ralph, Domestic Pressure and International Climate Cooperation (July 28, 2021). Annual Review of Resource Economics, forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3895088

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