Interesting point – not that I want anybody leaving the Paris Agreement (or other valuable international agreements), but at least others are stepping up to make up for the shortcomings that are risked by the US pulling out of Paris.
If a country as powerful as the US, with emissions and economy to match, can pull out of an agreement like this and have the agreement go on largely unchanged – due to the efforts of other state and non-state actors – what does this mean for global power balances? What does this mean for the relationship between state and non-state? What might this mean for future agreements? Will be interesting to see where this goes in the future.
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US Embassy, Berlin, with a bit of help from Greenpeace Op-ed by Tim Gore, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Research of Oxfam’s GROW Campaign Oxfam began campaigning for a global climate agreement in 2007. We have sent teams to every COP and every single negotiating session ever since. Along with many partners and allies, we…
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