As an alternative to the environmental cartel approach, we assume that an international environmental agreement aims simply at providing a collective response to a perceived threat. Given this less demanding concept of cooperation and considering that most treaties become enforceable only after ratification by a sufficient number of participants, we examine the set of self-enforceable agreements. This set contains first-best but also second-best agreements that do not maximize the collective welfare of members but meet environmental and/or participative requirements. We study the properties of this set and discuss admissible values of targets and thresholds that favour economics over environmental objectives and vice versa. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Courtois, P., & Haeringer, G. (2012). Environmental cooperation: Ratifying second-best agreements. Public Choice, 151(3–4), 565–584. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-010-9759-6
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