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Most of the chapters in this collection have examined, in some detail, the way that the British Government’s environmental policy has evolved since 1988. Nowhere has this policy been faced with as many challenges as in the international arena. It was concern with possible global warming that prompted Mrs Thatcher’s speeches on the environment to the Royal Society and to her Party Conference. But declarations and warnings need to be matched by deeds, and there are very few solid achievements in the realm of international environmental policy for which the British Government can take the credit.
I would like to express my thanks to Andrew Jordan, Kate Brown and Neil Adger, of CSERGE (UEA) for their helpful and constructive comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.
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Redclift, M. (1995). The UK and the International Environmental Agenda: Rio and After. In: Gray, T.S. (eds) UK Environmental Policy in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24237-5_16
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