Council on Foreign Relations Recommends David Victor's 'Global Warming Gridlock'
Friday Files: Read of the Week
04/29/2011
James M. Lindsay,
Council on Foreign Relations Blog
Read of the Week.
If you want to get smart on what can be done to address the problem of climate change, read David Victor’s new book, Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet. David is as smart and as savvy as they come, and he has been working the climate change issue since before it began grabbing front-page headlines. He presents a devastating critique of the global, UN-based diplomatic strategies that have dominated over the past two decades. He offers up an alternative approach that emphasizes bottom-up initiatives at the national, regional, and global levels.
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
