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PLSC 418L25 Politics of Climate Change Discussion International Relations Theory

Climate change

Q Roberts and Parks (2007) argue that global inequality, specifically between the North and the South, directly and indirectly makes international cooperation on climate change policy more difficult. Do you believe that global inequality explains the relative lack of international agreements on climate change? Or does something else render states unable to negotiate effectively on this issue, like economic self-interest or skepticism towards climate science? Can states overcome these obstacles and if so, how? Even more basically, should climate change even be on states' foreign policy agendas?

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The climate change around the world is one of the main reasons of inequality. Certain regions of the world are more prone to natural calamities like droughts, floods etc. But the inequality resulted out of it is often an overlooked topic. Most of the it can be said that the poor people who are not capable of dealing with such disastrous situations are the people who have to face these situations the most. The effects of industrialism such as global warming are being faced by the people who are innocent and unequipped.