So will Bali accomplish anything?
When it comes to enegy and the environment, anything David Victor writes is worth reading. In Newsweek, Victor suggests that the upcoming Bali summit won’t achieve much of anything: The effort, though noble, is largely irrelevant to the urgent task of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. The countries that care the most about successful U.N. talks are ...
When it comes to enegy and the environment, anything David Victor writes is worth reading. In Newsweek, Victor suggests that the upcoming Bali summit won't achieve much of anything: The effort, though noble, is largely irrelevant to the urgent task of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. The countries that care the most about successful U.N. talks are a small and shrinking part of the problem. Those that matter most?notably China, which in 2007 became the world's largest emitter of warming gases?have exempted themselves from any regulation of their effluent. The Bali agenda offers no route around this impasse and will probably make it harder to solve in the future.
When it comes to enegy and the environment, anything David Victor writes is worth reading. In Newsweek, Victor suggests that the upcoming Bali summit won’t achieve much of anything:
The effort, though noble, is largely irrelevant to the urgent task of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. The countries that care the most about successful U.N. talks are a small and shrinking part of the problem. Those that matter most?notably China, which in 2007 became the world’s largest emitter of warming gases?have exempted themselves from any regulation of their effluent. The Bali agenda offers no route around this impasse and will probably make it harder to solve in the future.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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