We study the design of fair international protocols for abatement GHG emissions. formulate normative principles, pertaining to countries' population, emission history, and business as usual emissions, axioms allocation rules. show that combinations these characterize so-called equal per capita rules, with or without historical accountability. The allocations provided by rules are in stark contr...

Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol allowed emissions trading; Article 12 defined a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In a simple theoretical model we adapt standard gains from trade results to demonstrate that, relative to any status quo with specified worldwide aggregate emissions: first, emissions trading with a suitable international distribution of permit rights generally allows each nation ...

This paper presents the general architecture of the TMEKO protocol (Tutoring Methodology for Enriching the Kyoto Ontology) that guides non-expert users through the process of creating mappings from domain wordnet synsets to a shared ontology by answering natural language questions. TMEKO will be part of a Wiki-like community platform currently developed in the Kyoto project (http://www.kyoto-pr...

This paper investigates the coalitional stability of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the emissions of greenhouse gases. Unlike conventional coalition stability tests we assume that potential deviators are farsighted in the sense of Chwe (1994) and take into account possible subsequent deviations by the remaining players. In the empirical part of the paper, a Partial Agreement Nash Equilibrium w.r.t....

First steps toward a broad climate agreement, such as the Kyoto Protocol, have focused on less than global geographic coverage. We consider instead a policy that is less comprehensive in term of greenhouse gases (GHGs), including only the non-CO 2 GHGs, but is geographically comprehensive. Abating non-CO 2 GHGs may be seen as less of a threat to economic development and therefore it may be poss...

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