{"id":1774,"date":"2015-10-02T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c-seb.de\/en\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:00:49","slug":"the-ultimate-climate-change-challenge-free-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/in-the-media\/the-ultimate-climate-change-challenge-free-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate climate change challenge: free riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"h5\" style=\"color: #33475b;\">Marketplace, 02.10.2015 | Scott Tong<\/h3>\r\n\u201eThe last of the world&#8217;s big economies, India, has submitted its voluntary pledge to regulate carbon emissions. Already, though, some critics say India could do more. And collectively, the world&#8217;s total commitments, as the United Nations climate conference in Paris approaches, are projected to be insufficient to meet international targets. Many economists say the central issue is what&#8217;s known as the \u2018free rider\u2019 problem [&#8230;] \u2018Some countries will observe others are not doing their share,\u2019 [&#8230;] economist Peter Cramton said. \u2018And as a result they&#8217;ll say, \u2018I&#8217;m not going to do my share either.\u2019 [&#8230;] In an upcoming paper, Cramton suggests any patchwork of voluntary commitments, including current climate talks, will fail. The incentive to ride for free, the paper says, is too strong\u2019.\u201d","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketplace, 02.10.2015 | Scott Tong \u201eThe last of the world&#8217;s big economies, India, has submitted its voluntary pledge to regulate \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-the-media","post_format-post-format-link","years-36","person-cramton-peter-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}