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The international climate negotiations have left the planet’s fate to the na-tions themselves to decide. It became too difficult to negotiate a binding agreement for what each country should do, thus, the Paris agreement is based on volunteerism. The necessary policy instruments need to be imple-mented locally, but are needed everywhere. This is politically challenging. Our attention turns to a few frontrunner countries and their role in leading global climate policy forward. Classical theory of collective action predicts that countries will act selfishly and not reduce their emissions. An underly-ing assumption is that the introduction of climate policy is costly. We have conducted a survey of 537 researchers in environmental economics. The results show that they are of the opinion that proactive climate policy rather generates economic gains.

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