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As a tragedy of the global atmospheric commons (Soroos 2001), solutions to the problem of climate change will ultimately require global cooperation. Efforts at the national and EU levels to mitigate climate change are necessarily influenced by what happens on the international stage, so an understanding of climate politics at these levels also requires an understanding of this global context. This chapter, which is in part based on the analysis in Davenport (2006), provides a brief narrative history of developments at the international level through the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the present day, along with a synopsis of the some of the main arguments in the academic literature on the international politics of climate change.
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Davenport, D. (2008). The International Dimension of Climate Policy. In: Compston, H., Bailey, I. (eds) Turning Down the Heat. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594678_4
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