POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 2Degrees, Rein, The Wrong Trousers
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Adopted the un framework convention on climate change by stabilizing greenhouse. Spent 2 decades negotiating legally binding rules on how to rein in global emissions gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Required industrialized countries to reduce emissions by an average of 5% against 1990. Placed obligations to reduce emissions only on the annex ! industrialized countries. Intended to create a more effective successor treaty to the kyoto protocol, but collapsed. Countries reached agreement on a new climate treaty that un secretary-general ban. As keohane and oppenheimer argue, paris game" logic that connects domestic climate politics with the strategic interaction between countries negotiations focused on a reductions. Thesis: the paris agreement does indeed break new ground in international climate policy . The 21st conference of the parties (cop-21) brought to an end over 20 years of un. The paris agreement acknowledges the primacy of domestic politics in climate.
