International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale. However, countries are heterogeneous with respect to their economic structures and to the problems relating to the environment that they encounter. Therefore, economic externalities and global environmental conflicts are common and can cause problems in implementation and compliance with international agreements.
Economics of International Environmental Agreements illuminates those issues and factors that might cause some countries or firms to take different positions on common problems. This book explores why international environmental agreements deal with some problems successfully but fail with others. The chapters address issues that are global in nature, such as: transboundary pollution, provision of global public goods, individual preferences of inequality- aversion, global cooperation, self-enforcing international environmental agreements, emission standards, abatement costs, environmental quota, technology agreement and adoption and international institutions. They examine the necessary conditions for the improved performance of international environmental agreements, how cooperation among countries can be improved and the incentives that can be created for voluntary compliance with international environmental agreements.
This text is of great importance to academics, students and policy makers who are interested in environmental economics, policy and politics, as well as environmental law.
Part I Stability: External and Internal
1. What Drives Compliance with International Environmental Agreements? A Political Economy Analysis of International and National Determinants
Sarah Al Doyaili and Leo Wangler
2. Stable Environmental Agreements and International Trade In Asymmetric Oligopoly Markets
Michel Cavagnac and Guillaume Cheikbossian
3. The Effects of Inequality Aversion on the Formation of Climate Coalition: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Yu-Hsuan Lin
Part II Heterogeneous Countries
4. Transnational Environmental Agreements with Heterogeneous Actors
Achim Hagen, Leonhard Kähler and Klaus Eisenack
5. International Trade and Environmental Cooperation among Heterogeneous Countries
Soham Baksi and Amrita Ray Chaudhuri
6. The Effects of Labor Intensity and Pollution Damage on Government Policies and Location Choice
Benan Zeki Orbay and Narod Erkol
Part III Firm Heterogeneity
7. Foreign Penetration and Environmental Policies
Sajal Lahiri and Yingyi Tsai
8. Abatement Level in Environmental Agreements when Firms are Heterogeneous in Abatement Cost
Luis Gautier
9. Environmental Quota in an Asymmetric Trade Competition with Heterogeneous Firms
Rafael Salvador Espinosa Ramirez and M. Özgür Kayalica
Part IV Environmental Technology
10. The Effectiveness of International Technology Agreements for Environmental Issues: The Impacts of R&D Costs
Chisa Kajita and Toshiyuki Fujita
11. Adaptation Technology and Free-Riding Incentives in International Environmental Agreements
Hassan Benchekroun, Walid Marrouch and Amrita Ray Chaudhuri
12. Cooperation in Environmental Standarts when Abatement Technology Differs
Merve Kumas, M. Özgür Kayalica and Gülgün Kayakutlu
Part V International Institutions
13. Challenges of Governing International Energy Transitions: International Renewable Energy Agency as a Solution?
Yasemin Atalay
14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Carbon Cycle Frame: What will the Future Look Like?
Onur Tutulmaz and Selim Çagatay
Concluding Remarks
