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Climate Governance at the Crossroads : Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto by Matthew J. Hoffmann is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
The global response to climate change has reached a critical juncture. Since the 1992 signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the nations of the world have attempted to address climate change through large-scale multilateral treaty-making. These efforts have been heroic, but disappointing. As evidence for the quickening pace of climate change mounts, the treaty-making process has sputtered, and many are now skeptical about the prospect of an effective global response. Yet global treaty-making is not the only way that climate change can be addressed or, indeed, is being addressed. In the last decade myriad initiatives have emerged across the globe independently from, or only loosely connected to, the "official" UN-sponsored negotiations and treaties. In the face of stalemate in the formal negotiations, the world is experimenting with alternate means of responding to climate change. Climate Governance at the Crossroads chronicles these innovations--how cities, provinces and states, citizen groups, and corporations around the globe are addressing the causes and symptoms of global warming. The center of gravity in the global response to climate change is s
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- Author
- Matthew J. Hoffmann
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195390087
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, Social Science