All are welcome at the Climate Club

By Avram Alpert and Dennis J. Snower

Avram Alpert is a fellow at The New Institute and a lecturer at Princeton University. Dennis J. Snower is President of the Global Solutions Initiative and a researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and others.

The proposal for an international Climate Club may sound like a rehash of previous climate policy strategies. But properly implemented, such a club could take social factors into account and thus avoid a crucial mistake from the past, according to Avram Alpert and Dennis J. Snower.

By the end of 2022, the G7 aims to launch an „open, cooperative international Climate Club“ to foster coordinated action to achieve the Paris climate agreement’s maximum-warming target of 1.5° Celsius without leaving anyone at a competitive disadvantage. Though we have been hearing calls for international climate action for decades, there is good reason to think that this time will be different.

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