Climate Change Negotiations
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چکیده
The policy problem posed by climate change is daunting. Absent evidence that climate change is not a risk to human and natural systems, the world faces an unending series of difficult international negotiations about measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. To be successful, the resulting climate regime must be able to survive over many decades, adapting to changing economic conditions, to evolution in our understanding of how climate system works, and to both success and failure of subsidiary agreements along the way. Prospects for reaching rational, workable agreements will be increased if these negotiations are governed by a useful policy architecture: a unifying structure that restricts potential agreements in ways that both simplify negotiations and point them in substantively desirable directions. Sound constitutions are the most obvious examples of such architectures, but, as we discuss in Section 2, the notion is much broader.
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