TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Creutzig, Felix T1 - Closing the Emission Price Gap JF - Global Environmental Change N2 - Even without internationally concerted action on climate change mitigation, there are important incentives for countries to put a price on their domestic emissions, including public finance considerations, internalizing the climate impacts of their own emissions, and co-benefits, such as clean air or energy security. Whereas these arguments have been mostly discussed in separate strands of literature, this article carries out a synthesis that exemplifies how policies to put a price on emissions can be conceptualized in a multi-objective framework. Despite considerable uncertainty, empirical evidence suggests that different countries may face quite different incentives for emission pricing. For instance, avoided climate damages and co-benefits of reduced air pollution appear to be the main motivation for emission pricing in China, while for the US generating public revenue dominates and for the EU all three motivations are of intermediate importance. We finally argue that such unilateral incentives could form the basis for incremental progress in international climate negotiations toward a realistic climate treaty based on national interest and differentiated emission pricing and describe how such an agreement could be put into practice. KW - Unilateral incentives KW - Co-benefits KW - Hybrid climate agreement Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.003 VL - 31 SP - 132 EP - 143 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Knopf, Brigitte T1 - Science and religion in dialogue over the global commons JF - Nature Climate Change N2 - The Pope's encyclical makes unprecedented progress in developing scientific dialogue with religion by drawing on research, and encouraging further discussion about the ethical challenge of governing the global commons. KW - Climate-change policy KW - Ethics KW - Policy Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2798 VL - 5 IS - 10 SP - 907 EP - 909 PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Carraro, Carlo A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Kolstad, Charles A1 - Stavins, Robert A1 - Stowe, Robert T1 - The IPCC at a Crossroads: Opportunities for Reform JF - Science N2 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has proven its value as an institution for large-scale scientific collaboration to synthesize and assess large volumes of climate research for use by policy-makers, as well as for establishing credibility of findings among diverse national governments. But the IPCC has received considerable criticism of both its substance and process. The new IPCC leadership to be elected in October could help guide the IPCC to a clear, shared understanding of future objectives and could shape procedural reforms. We identify key opportunities for reform by addressing two related questions: Is the IPCC doing the right things? Is the IPCC doing things right? Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4419 SN - 1095-9203 VL - 350 IS - 6256 SP - 34 EP - 35 PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science CY - Washington, DC [u.a.] ER -