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12/11/2018

What factors influence the fulfillment of commitments in climate negotiations?

@Green Office

The COMPLIANCE joint project is concerned with international climate policy. Particular attention is being paid to researching factors that influence compliance with commitments in international climate negotiations such as the current one in Katowice. The University of Kassel is involved with funding of 232,000 euros.

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A sub-project at COMPLIANCE is led by Prof. Dr. Astrid Dannenberg from the Department of Environmental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Kassel. Her group is surveying participants in international climate negotiations and investigating the extent to which factors such as mitigation costs, political credibility or the influence of non-state actors affect the fulfillment of commitments in climate negotiations. In addition, experimental methods will shed light on how the system of "monitoring, reporting, verification and enforcement" agreed in the Paris Agreement must be designed in order to be effective. Economic laboratory experiments will be used to investigate how different designs of monitoring and enforcement affect the behavior of actors and general welfare.

The overall project "The Economics of International Climate Policy Compliance: Monitoring, Reporting, Verification & Enforcement" is coordinated by Heidelberg University. In addition to the University of Kassel, the University of Mannheim and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim are cooperation partners. The COMPLIANCE project will run from September 2018 to August 2021. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project as part of the priority area "Economics of Climate Change II".

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Astrid Dannenberg
University of Kassel
Department of Environmental and Behavioral Economics
Phone: +49 561 804-3758
Email: dannenberg[at]uni-kassel[dot]de