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Egg-Timer: Political Economy of Climate Policy Location: D-112 Session Chair: Selina Schön, ETH Zurich | |
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Negative Emission Technologies and Climate Cooperation 1: Bocconi University, Italy; 2: RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Italy; 3: CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) — a range of methods to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — are a crucial innovation in meeting temperature targets set by international climate agreements. However, mechanisms that undo the adverse consequences of short-sighted actions (such as NETs) can fuel substitution effects and crowd out virtuous behaviors (e.g., mitigation efforts). For this reason, the impact of NETs on environmental preservation is an open question among scientists and policy-makers. We model this problem through a novel restorable common-pool resource game and use a laboratory experiment to exogenously manipulate the key features of NETs and assess their consequences. We show that crowding out only emerges when NETs are surely available and cheap. The availability of NETs does not allow experimental communities to either conserve the common resource for longer or accrue higher earnings and makes the earnings distribution more unequal. | |