How to Fix the Climate - Boston Review

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Get our latest essays, archival selections, reading lists, and exclusive content delivered straight to your inbox. Image: Flickr / Martin Snicer Biden may have rejoined the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation. It is popular movements that drive climate politics forward. Experimentalist governance puts the cart before the horse. The original New Deal offers important lessons for a green future. Can the world meet the challenge of climate change? After more than three decades of global negotiations, the prognosis looks bleak. The most ambitious diplomatic efforts have focused on a series of virtually global agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris Agreement of 2015. With so many diverse interests across so many countries, it has been hard to get global agreement simply on the need for action; meaningful consensus has been even more elusive. Profound

How to Fix the Climate - Boston Review Skip to Main Content Read the Responses Fall 2020 issue November 21, 2020 Watch an event on this forum with Senator Ed Markey here . Can the world meet the challenge of climate change? After more than three decades of global negotiations, the prognosis looks bleak. The most ambitious diplomatic efforts have focused on a series of virtually global agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris Agreement of 2015. With so many diverse interests across so many countries, it has been hard to get global agreement simply on the need for action; mean

How to Fix the Climate - Boston Review

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