Protecting the Global Commons

Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah

Chapter 7 in Saving Ourselves:Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition, 2017, pp 143-166 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The term sustainability has been used to describe the increasing complexity of the political, economic and social causes and solutions linked to climate change. As climate change has no single cause or solution, adapting to and mitigating it will require a broad and widespread cooperation between governments, international institutions, NGOs, corporations, cities and citizens. The causes and effects linked to climate change are global, therefore, any attempt to solve it must also be done at the global level. This is especially so because if there were no general agreement by all countries on how to manage CO2 emissions and mitigate climate change, they would have no incentive to act on their own…

Keywords: Sustainable; Sustainability; Interviews; Sustainable Development; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Fossil Fuels; Biodiversity; Good Governance; Green Economy; Food Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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