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Mitigating climate change has emerged as possibly the greatest public policy challenge of the 21st century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributed to a thorough understanding of global warming as a serious threat to human life on this planet. More than any other global challenge, climate change illustrates the need to govern at a supranational level. Reducing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases that originate across the world and affect the climate everywhere cannot be achieved by the actions of individual countries or national governments alone. Nevertheless, putting in place the requisite institutional mechanisms at the global level is a generational task that has so far only partially come to fruition.
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Mergenthaler, S. (2015). Mitigating climate change. In: Managing Global Challenges. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10373-6_6
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