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International climate politics has undergone a profound shift since delegates at the 1988 World Meteorological Organization Conference in Toronto first called on governments and the United Nations: ‘to take specific actions to reduce the impending crisis caused by the pollution of the atmosphere’ (Willman 2009: 145). Back then, attention fell predominantly on the need for the developed nations of the northern hemisphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although tensions over whether major developing countries should also adopt emissions targets had already surfaced by the time the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was negotiated in 1992, it is now more apparent than ever that the actions of industrializing countries will be critical to future efforts to mitigate abrupt climate change.
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Bailey, I., Compston, H. (2012). Political Strategy and Climate Policy in Rapidly Industrializing Countries. In: Bailey, I., Compston, H. (eds) Feeling the Heat. Energy, Climate and the Environment series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374973_10
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