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The recent move of USA to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is a setback in the consensus achieved on protecting the world environment. In this context, assess the future prospectives on climate control.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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The Paris Agreement (2015) bought universality by making national pledges voluntary. Its weakness is that the largest historical emitter can leave at little legal cost, and the United States has now done so twice. Whether climate control survives depends on whether the regime rests on a hegemon or on many centres of action.

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  • Why the withdrawal is a setback
  • Two withdrawals compared
  • Grounds for optimism
  • Grounds for concern
  • Conclusion
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