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Examine the main problems and challenges involved in looking after environmental concerns in world politics.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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The environmental crisis is not a failure of knowledge. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has assessed the science since 1988, and most remedies are known. The difficulty is political: the damage is global, the authority to act is national, and the states best able to act are often the least willing.

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  • Structural problems: commons, free riders and sovereignty
  • The North–South divide
  • Economic and technological challenges
  • Institutional weaknesses
  • Weighing the record
  • Conclusion
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