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With waning US leadership on climate, nonstate actors to play outsize role

  • Written by: Kenneth Shockley, Associate Professor and Holmes Rolston III Professor of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Colorado State University
imageCivil society and other groups, such as academics and businesses, stand to play a bigger role in how the countries of the world address climate change.Photo by IISD/ENB | Liz Rubin

Until recently, the international climate negotiation process revolved strictly around high-level conversations between nation states. However, this is changing in a way...

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