Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Underdal, Arild"

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  • Climate Change and International Relations (After Kyoto) 
    Underdal, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    This review “diagnoses” climate change as an international governance challenge and explores the political feasibility of alternative “cures.” Human activities’ growing effect on Earth's climate system is extremely ...
  • Climate Clubs: a Gateway to Effective Climate Cooperation? 
    Hovi, Jon; Sprinz, Detlef; Sælen, Håkon; Underdal, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Although the Paris Agreement arguably made some progress, interest in supplementary approaches to climate change co-operation persist. This article examines the conditions under which a climate club might emerge and grow. ...
  • Distributive fairness: A mutual recognition approach 
    Underdal, Arild; Wei, Taoyuan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Can norms of distributive fairness serve as pillars of a new and more effective global climate regime? Three general principles – responsibilities, capabilities (capacity), and needs (or rights) – are frequently invoked ...
  • The effectiveness of climate clubs under Donald Trump 
    Sprinz, Detlef; Sælen, Håkon; Underdal, Arild; Hovi, Jon (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    On 1 June 2017, President Trump announced that the US intends to leave the Paris Agreement if no alternative terms acceptable to his administration can be agreed upon. In this article, an agent-based model of bottom-up ...
  • How US withdrawal might influence cooperation under the Paris climate agreement 
    Sælen, Håkon; Hovi, Jon; Sprinz, Detlef; Underdal, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
    Using a novel agent-based model, we study how US withdrawal might influence the political process established by the Paris Agreement, and hence the prospects for reaching the collective goal to limit warming below 2°C. Our ...
  • Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work? 
    Dimitrov, Radoslav; Hovi, Jon; Sprinz, Detlef; Sælen, Håkon; Underdal, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    The 2015 Paris Agreement (PA) has been widely hailed as a diplomatic triumph and a breakthrough in global climate cooperation. However, it is commonly accepted that the PA's collective goal—keeping global warming “well ...
  • The political roots of divergence in carbon market design: implications for linking 
    Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald; Wettestad, Jørgen; Victor, David G.; Underdal, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    There is a substantial literature on optimal emissions trading system (ETS) designs, but relatively little on how organized political interests affect the design and operation of these economic instruments. This article ...