David G. Victor

For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programmes – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale. Making Climate Policy Work by Danny...

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentation Global climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp, but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations. Charles Sabel and...