COP conferences broadly provide a platform for the negotiation of international climate change agreements.
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Activists wanted nations to make bigger climate commitments at the Madrid COP-25 meeting, but the meeting’s real goal was agreeing on rules for pricing carbon pollution.
Although climate change threatens the world’s small island nations, many can find ways to adapt and preserve their homes and cultures – especially if wealthy countries cut emissions and provide support.
US President Donald Trump’s call to renegotiate the Paris Climate Accord is a fresh opportunity to craft a binding and enforceable agreement.
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, North-West University
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Chief Scientific Advisor, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, University of Notre Dame
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Researcher: Climate and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
