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9 - Prescriptions for Governing Climate Change

from Part III - Prescriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2021

Paul G. Harris
Affiliation:
The Education University of Hong Kong
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This chapter identifies a number of prescriptions for climate governance that could, alongside other actions being taken worldwide, mitigate the climate crisis. Success in this regard would entail dramatic and quite rapid declines in greenhouse gas pollution globally and successful adaptation to the impacts arising from past pollution. These outcomes would engender greater protection of human interests and substantial reductions in the many injustices arising from climate change, all while enhancing environmental sustainability in the long term. The prescriptions outlined here are intended to address corresponding governance pathologies described in Chapters 3–7. Before these prescriptions can be applied in practice, much more explication would be required. Thus, they are intended to illustrate the kinds of steps that will be required to make climate governance much more effective. All of these prescriptions for climate governance are aspirations: they are proposals for action that will have practical significance for the climate crisis only if they are taken seriously.

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Pathologies of Climate Governance
International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature
, pp. 198 - 217
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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