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Countries must work together through global agreements to deal with, and conquer, a problem as urgent, complex, and wide-sweeping as climate change. Global agreements create a common level of understanding and allow countries to create collaborative goals, share resources, and work with each other towards global warming solutions. No one country can solve climate change on its own, just like no one country created global warming in the first place.

The core international law around climate change is the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and a series of subsequent agreements, from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the current 2015 Paris Agreement. Countries have agreed that globally they will hold to as far below 2 degrees C as possible and preferably to no more than 1.5 degrees. But, collectively, despite marked progress in some nations, particularly within the European Union, the world’s countries aren’t on track to deliver on these goals.

The international discussions are ongoing; government representatives meet on an annual basis for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. These targets we re-affirmed at the last such meeting in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021. We discuss just what goes on at those meetings in Chapter 11.