Research project Pathways to Carbon Neutrality: From Pioneering Coalition to Effective Climate Club?

Specifically, the project will examine a pioneering group of states and subnational actors—the Carbon Neutrality Coalition (CNC)—and what prospects it has for inducing transition. The scholarship on free-riding argues that deeper forms of cooperation are needed through climate clubs. We will transfer the climate club concept, developed amongst others by Nobel Prize-winning economist Nordhaus, to the sphere of politics, produce systematic empirical data about a real organization, and identify the states most likely to initiate the transformation of CNC into a climate club. A key part of this project is the communication of our findings with the aim to put the results into practical use.