Fabre, Adrien; et al. (2020): Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely
Fabre, Adrien; Wagner, Gernot (2020): Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely. In Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7 (1). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0492-6.
„Some countries prefer high to low mitigation (H ≻ L). Some prefer low to high (L ≻ H). That fundamental disagreement is at the heart of the seeming intractability of negotiating a climate mitigation agreement. Modelling global climate negotiations as a weakest-link game brings this to the fore: Unless everyone prefers H to L, L wins. Enter geoengineering (G). Its risky and imperfect nature makes it arguably inferior to any country’s preferred mitigation outcome.“