International decision making for global climate change

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Efforts aimed at controlling pollution in regional seas and at minimizing ozone depletion were, at one time, viewed to be as complex as managing global climate change. Effective international cooperation is the result of an incremental and iterative learning process among scientists, environmental groups, and political leaders who hold divergent perceptions and stakes in resource controversies. A specific lesson from these cases is that a gradual process of consensus building is effective when consultation with all affected parties takes place. This would come about after scientific, technical, economic, and political evaluation of alternative actions by all parties. Once common action to assess the impact of CO2 commences, further cooperation requires agreements based on acknowledgment of the sovereignty of all nation‐states and on the importance of nonstate actors.

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