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Protecting the Global Commons

In: Saving Ourselves Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition

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  • Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah

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The term sustainability has been used to describe the increasing complexity of the political, economic and social causes and solutions linked to climate change. As climate change has no single cause or solution, adapting to and mitigating it will require a broad and widespread cooperation between governments, international institutions, NGOs, corporations, cities and citizens. The causes and effects linked to climate change are global, therefore, any attempt to solve it must also be done at the global level. This is especially so because if there were no general agreement by all countries on how to manage CO2 emissions and mitigate climate change, they would have no incentive to act on their own…

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  • Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah, 2017. "Protecting the Global Commons," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah (ed.), Saving Ourselves Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition, chapter 7, pages 143-166, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Sustainable; Sustainability; Interviews; Sustainable Development; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Fossil Fuels; Biodiversity; Good Governance; Green Economy; Food Security;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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