Open AccessWilliam Nordhaus’s climate club proposal: thinking globally about climate change economics
Author(s) -
Geoff Bertram
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v12i2.4597
Subject(s) - climate change , declaration , club , rhetoric , political science , convention , politics , political economy of climate change , united nations framework convention on climate change , environmental ethics , political economy , sociology , law , ecology , kyoto protocol , philosophy , medicine , linguistics , biology , anatomy
‘Think globally, act locally’ has long been a rallying cry for progressives and green activists. In this article I stress the importance of thinking globally before acting locally in the wake of the 2015 Paris conference on climate change. Both the content of the Paris Agreement and the political rhetoric surrounding it feel like a return to 1992 following the signing of the Rio Declaration and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.