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Climate notes: Multilateral environmental agreements - multivitamins for the world

Christoph Jeßberger, Jana Lippelt
ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, München, 2010

ifo Schnelldienst, 2010, 63, Nr. 21, 38-40

Every expansion of an existing environmental agreement can mean a further step with respect to improved environmental protection. Therefore, it makes sense to calculate the contribution of a country to global environmental protection by looking at the number of its multilateral environmental agreements. Above all, Western European countries top the list in the number of their multinational environmental agreements.

JEL Classification: Q200

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