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Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities

  • 05 Apr 2022
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Webinar

Climate change and other environmental threats have moved to the top of the international agenda. All major powers are now committed to fighting global warming and ensuring environmental sustainability. But it has not always been the case. How did the society of states come to accept a responsibility for the global environment? And how deeply committed are states to safeguarding the planet?

In this event on Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities, we will discuss how international power inequality affects the search for global environmental solutions, and what special role the most powerful states play in the international fight against global warming. Great powers are also great polluters, particularly when it comes to global greenhouse gas emissions. Through the 2015 Paris Agreement and recent international conferences, all major powers - from the United States to China, India, Brazil and the EU - have committed to bringing greenhouse gas emissions under control and decarbonising their economies by 2050. Yet, there is little evidence as yet that they are delivering on their promises and acting as responsible great powers. 


About the Author:
Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.



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