Climate Negotiation

Climate negotiation research focuses on designing effective international agreements to mitigate climate change, addressing the inherent challenges of collective action and free-riding. Current efforts utilize agent-based modeling, often within frameworks like RICE-N, incorporating multi-agent reinforcement learning and exploring mechanisms like conditional commitments to incentivize cooperation. These models are being refined to better reflect real-world complexities, including regional variations in climate impacts, diverse political structures, and the influence of non-state actors, ultimately aiming to inform the design of more effective and equitable climate policies.