National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update

Dinner Speech at the Ceda Vip Dinner Climate Change Mitigation: an Update on Global Initiatives

The recent Climate Summits, in particular Copenhagen in 2009 and Durban in 2011, were at least disappointing. Many negotiators, many heads of state had hoped that they could bring home a more satisfying result. It has turned out that reaching international cooperation is much more complicated and much more time-consuming than many observers anticipated. Pursuing their own interests nation state...

Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture

Climate Change: National Interests Or a Global Regime?

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation†

We model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a dynamic game. Countries’ emissions increase atmospheric concentrations of GHG, which negatively affects all countries' welfare. We analyze self-enforcing climate-change treaties that are supportable as subgame perfect equilibria. A simulation model illustrates conditions where a subgame perfect equilibrium supports the first-best outcome. In one of o...