Information about historical emissions drives the division of climate change mitigation costs

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dc.contributor.authorDel Ponte, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorMasiliunas, Aidas
dc.contributor.authorLim, Noah
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Sheffield
dc.contributor.otherNational University of Singapore
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T20:39:36Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T20:39:36Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractDespite worsening climate change, the international community still disagrees on how to divide the costs of mitigation between developing countries and developed countries, which emitted the bulk of historical carbon emissions. We study this issue using an economic experiment. Specifically, we test how information about historical emissions influences how much participants pay for climate change mitigation. In a four-player game, participants are assigned to lead two fictional countries as members of either the first or the second generation. The first generation produces wealth at the expense of greater carbon emissions. The second generation inherits their predecessor's wealth and negotiates how to split the climate change mitigation costs. Here we show that when the second generation knows that the previous generation created the current wealth and mitigation costs, participants whose predecessor generated more carbon emissions offered to pay more, whereas the successors of low-carbon emitters offered to pay less. Who pays for climate change mitigation is an ongoing source of conflict. Here the authors examine how historical carbon emissions influences how much people will pay for climate change mitigation via an economic experiment.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationDel Ponte, A., Masiliūnas, A., & Lim, N. (2023). Information about historical emissions drives the division of climate change mitigation costs. In Nature Communications (Vol. 14, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37130-7
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-023-37130-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11732
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherNature Portfolio
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectRESPONSIBILITY
dc.subjectFAIRNESS
dc.subjectWILLINGNESS
dc.subjectBEHAVIOR
dc.subjectSCIENCE
dc.subjectGUILT
dc.subjectCARE
dc.subjectMultidisciplinary Sciences
dc.titleInformation about historical emissions drives the division of climate change mitigation costsen_US
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