15 October 2018

In view of the recent turmoil caused by international trade negotiations, we can view climate change policy in a game theoretic setting. In other words, although the major players may benefit from global emission reduction, there is a natural tendency to engage in climate policy as a strategic game. In this report, we study three different climate change games and compare with the outcome of choices by a Social Planner.

15 October 2018

Climate change caused by human activity represents a particularly intractable tragedy of the commons, which can only be addressed by cooperative actions of individual decision makers at both national and regional levels.

25 September 2018

Many of the costs associated with climate change, such as large-scale coastal flooding and long droughts, are predicted to occur decades or even centuries into the future. However, societies have to invest today in order to effectively mitigate and reduce these long-run risks.