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Adaptation to Climate Change: How does Heterogeneity in Adaptation Costs Affect Climate Coalitions?

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  • Itziar Lazkano
  • Walid Marrouch
  • Bruno Nkuiya

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We examine how adaptation to climate change affects the incentives to ratify international environmental agreements (IEAs). In particular, we study the effects of two aspects on the incentives to join a coalition. First, we analyze cross-country differences in adaptation costs. Second, we investigate the role of carbon leakage. Wefind that the incentives to join IEAs remain unchanged with cross-country differences in adaptation when there is no carbon leakage, while these cross-country differences may strengthen the incentives to join IEAs with leakages. Our results emphasize that policies directed at reducing cost differences and carbon leakage may also affect the success and failure of IEAs. Nous examinons comment l'adaptation au changement climatique influence les incitations à ratifier les accords internationaux environnementaux. En particulier, nous nous intéressons à deux effets liés à l'adaptation sur les incitations à approuver les accords climatiques. Tout d'abord, nous examinons les effets de l'hétérogénéité des coûts d'adaptation à travers les pays. Deuxièmement, nous étudions le rôle du « leakage » entre pays. Nos résultats indiquent que les incitations à ratifier restent inchangées même en présence de l'hétérogénéité dans les coûts d'adaptation quand il n'y a pas de « leakage ». Cependant, l'hétérogénéité entre pays peut accroitre les incitations à ratifier ces accords en présence du « leakage ». Nos résultats soulignent que les politiques visant à réduire la différence des coûts d'adaptation et le « leakage » peuvent influencer le succès ou l'échec des accords internationaux environnementaux.

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  • Itziar Lazkano & Walid Marrouch & Bruno Nkuiya, 2014. "Adaptation to Climate Change: How does Heterogeneity in Adaptation Costs Affect Climate Coalitions?," CIRANO Working Papers 2014s-29, CIRANO.
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    adaptation; environmental agreements; cost differences; carbon leakage;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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