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Challenging conventional wisdom: experimental evidence on heterogeneity and coordination in avoiding a collective catastrophic event

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Milinski, Manfred
Emeritus Group Milinski, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society;

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Waichman, I., Requate, T., Karde, M., & Milinski, M. (2019). Challenging conventional wisdom: experimental evidence on heterogeneity and coordination in avoiding a collective catastrophic event.

Abstract

Avoiding a catastrophic climate change event is a global public good characterized by
several dimensions, notably heterogeneity between the parties involved. It is often argued that such
heterogeneity between countries is a major obstacle to cooperative climate policy. We challenge
this belief by experimentally simulating two important heterogeneities, in wealth and loss,
when dangerous climate change occurs. We find that under loss heterogeneity the success
rate in achieving sufficient mitigation to prevent catastrophic climate change is higher than
with homogeneous parties. We also observe that neither endowment heterogeneity nor the
combination of endowment and loss heterogeneities lead to significantly different success
rates than with homogeneous parties. Our findings suggest that heterogeneities may
facilitate rather than hinder successful international climate policy negotiations.