“After decades of largely unsuccessful climate negotiations, the question is whether we are pursuing the right strategy. Other negotiation formats are more promising.”
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Berlin Axel Ockenfels researches why people behave the way they do – and develops concepts when behavior changes are required. Ockenfels is not surprised that little progress is made at the annual climate conferences: “Cooperation researchers have been predicting exactly this behavior pattern for many years,” says the professor of economics at the University of Cologne in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
In Egypt it is like in the past 30 years. “We keep running into the same wall.” From the point of view of individual countries, there is “insufficient incentive to invest a lot of their own money in the global climate, even if the consequences for the world are very serious,” says Ockenfels, who also advises the federal government on climate – and advises on energy issues.
In addition, a national climate policy only shifts some of the emissions elsewhere. “Therefore, the principle prevails: Let the others make an effort.”
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