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Would you agree that the on-going debates on international environmental politics continue to be marred by a new North-South ideological divide over historical responsibility and developmental model? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Since Stockholm (1972), environmental diplomacy has pitted a North that speaks of a common future against a South that points to an unequal past. The divide is real and shapes every negotiation. It is, however, less a clash of two ideological blocs than a contest over fairness and money within a fragmented South and a…

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  • Historical responsibility: the persisting fault line
  • Development model: the ideological layer
  • Why it is no longer binary
  • Conclusion
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