The Negotiation, Design and Implementation of Climate Agreements

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The purpose of this course is three-fold. First, it seeks to explain why fifteen years of climate negotiations have failed to produce an effective climate treaty that might help solve the climate change problem. Second, it considers important aspects of treaty design, such as how a new climate treaty might provide incentives for participation and compliance. Finally, it discusses the relationship between treaty design and the choice of policy instruments at the international and national levels, including how political feasibility constrains effective climate policy. Both the reading list and the set of lecturers represent a blend of contributions from economics and from political science.