Full Title: UNDIPLOMATIC ACTION: A practical guide to the new politics and geopolitics of climate change
Author(s): David G. Victor and Bruce D. Jones
Publisher(s): The Brookings Institution
Publication Date: February 1, 2018
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Description (excerpt):
President Donald Trump’s June 2017 decision to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change roiled the world of climate politics. We were among those who thought the decision was unnecessary and unwise. But its impact on actual progress toward the goal of minimizing and managing the damages of climate change is easy to overstate. Formal intergovernmental diplomacy has a role to play in shaping energy transitions, but a limited one.