An Adaptation-Mitigation Game: Does Adaptation Promote Participation in International Environmental Agreements?

This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence participation an international environmental agreement (IEA) when countries decide before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types agreements are studied, a complete for which coordinate decisions on and emissions, there is only coordination adaptation. In both cases, we assume that degree effectiveness bounded from above, order words, alleviate problem, but it cannot solve by itself leading vulnerability country to almost zero. Our results show grand coalition could be stable agreement, extremely high degrees If this condition not satisfied, model predicts low membership. The standard result three agreement. For higher than three, six countries. any case, conclude under reasonable values adaptation, our does promote IEA.