I've got an essay up at Foreign Policy on the state of the climate debate. Here is how it starts:
The heady days of early 2009, when advocates for global action on climate change anticipated world leaders gathering later that year around a conference table in Copenhagen to reach a global agreement, are but a distant memory. Today, with many of these same leaders focusing their attention on jumpstarting economic growth, environmental issues have taken a back seat. For environmentalists, it may seem that climate policy has dropped from the political agenda altogether.
They're right. The world's biggest emitters have reached a consensus of sorts, but not the one hoped for in Copenhagen.
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