Abstract
The global policy of halting climate change has only been decided upon in Paris 2015, as the implementation process has yet to start. Many more meetings and conferences are held by The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change almost monthly, but the real putting into effect of means and instruments that promote the COP21 goals is still lacking, at least from a global point of view. I will point out the problematic with the COP21 Agreement, employing two well-known social economics models and illustrating it with a few examples from the real world. The findings include that several countries face an energy-emissions conundrum that the climate change project must face.
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Lane, JE. (2017). Implementing COP 21. In: Álvarez Fernández, R., Zubelzu, S., Martínez, R. (eds) Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2_8
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