Negotiator Briefs on Cognition and Climate Change #2

The second installment of the CCC briefs, titled Rationality, Risk Perceptions and Risk Hierarchies is now available here.

This is the first of three CCC Briefs dealing with issues related to rationality. This Brief speaks about risk perceptions and risk hierarchies, explaining what it means to be rational when it comes to multilateral cooperation on climate change. It offers an analyses of how negotiators think in particular about the expected costs of climate change and climate policy. The three Briefs taken together will assess to what extent climate negotiators do in fact think and decide rationally, and what else is going on in their minds when considering options for global climate governance.