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The Global Emergence of Climate Policy

The Global Emergence of Climate Policy

Springer eBooks, 2018
Robert Guttmann
Abstract
When analyzing the climate policies of countries, as put forth in so-called Nationally Determined Contributions, we see that the world is nowhere near meeting its ≤ 2 °C objective. One striking example of policy failure is the USA, currently headed by a climate denier who has taken the largest per capita emitter of CO2 out of the Paris Agreement. In contrast to Trump, California has reinforced its climate policies as model for the rest of the world. So have other climate-policy leaders, notably China and France. Companies too seek to contribute to the struggle against global warming, as exemplified by Microsoft’s global carbon fee, Tesla’s product development, or Google’s Sidewalk Labs planning the city of the future. These developments will be dwarfed by much more radical approaches to organizing, say, traffic, agriculture, or waste management in the not-so-distant future.

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