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Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Doha, Warsaw, Lima and Paris climate change summits are now lost in obscurity such was their impact. Save for two—Copenhagen and Paris. Copenhagen set out basic requirements for global action, yet it took a further six years of glacial negotiation before the basics could be agreed in Paris. Poor countries are concerned that money promised to them still will not be nearly enough to protect them. Not all of the agreement is legally binding, so future governments could yet renege on their commitments. In fact, the only legally binding part was that countries should report on their progress at a meeting in five years. This section looks at the reality of the climate change summits and what they really mean.
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Pagett, R. (2018). Where We Are at with Climate Change. In: Building Global Resilience in the Aftermath of Sustainable Development. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Policy and Regulation . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62151-7_2
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