Selin in The Conversation: Strikeout in Paris?
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that world leaders are on the verge of ‘striking out’ in the leadup to the Paris climate talks.
Selin made the argument in a September 8 Op-Ed in The Conversation entitled “Can the Paris Talks Prevent a Climate Strike-Out?”
From the text of the op-ed:
In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. In global climate change politics, the world’s leaders risk a third strike in December in Paris.
After Kyoto in 1997 and Copenhagen in 2009, negotiators are facing a two-strike count. And the closer we get to Paris without substantial progress, the more likely we will experience a planetary strike-out with devastating consequences.
You can read the entire article here.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press. Learn more about him here.