There seems to be much that the 193 member countries of the United Nations agree on about addressing the Climate Crisis. Governments have promised to cut heat-trapping pollution. They have recognized that tackling climate change must go hand-in-hand with ending poverty, improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth - all while working to preserve our oceans and forests.
At U.N. meetings, countries consider proposals to reduce the impact of climate change: everything from new technologies for advance warning of weather catastrophes, to geoengineering to save Greenland glaciers, to mass resettlement of peoples and nations whose homelands will be unlivable.
But countries disagree about which solutions to prioritize. And they fail to meet their commitments. Dr. Mila Rosenthal will discuss her contention that countries won’t be able to continue this kind of business-as-usual at the U.N. on climate agreements, and that the political momentum is moving towards action.
Sponsored by the Adda Bozeman Chair in International Relations.
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