Global Consensus on Climate Change Is a Good Start

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Date of Publication: December 15, 2015

Year of Publication: 2015

Publisher: The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale

Author(s): Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett, the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Earth Institute, reflects on the Paris Agreement and offers recommendations on next steps.

The new Paris Agreement on climate change is a remarkable diplomatic achievement – remarkable mainly for representing a consensus among 195 states. But is it a true breakthrough or was a consensus possible because the agreement asks countries to do very little?

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