Environment Chapter 20

Cooperation on International Environmental Issues

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Environmental issues are for all, and costs are larger than any individuals contribution to the good so they ARE:
Public goods
Four ways to produce a public good:
From single actor
coercion
selective benefits
small group of essential actors
Questions for public good and bargaining:
How much is enough
who pays, how much
does the good need to be provided?
Examples of informational issues in global warming:
Scientific uncertainty
uncertainty about econommic costs
Externalities:
One party benefits form activities that impose costs on another. (for instance, cross border air and water polution)
Big questions for the question of global warming:
-developed vs developing states and transfer payments
-what reciprocal actions can be taken
-how to ensure compliance in face of incentives to defect and renegotiate