Developments in Climate Action around the World

Abstract

Sound domestic climate policies in a country can foster growth and change that would bring a wide range of benefits to that country, including but extending well beyond reductions in climate risk. The adoption of such policies is in turn fostered by an understanding of the relevant science, economics, and ethics, and of the many co-benefits of climate action, including learning and discovery, energy efficiency, energy security, cleaner air and water, and so on. These arguments were at the core of the ideas of part II of this book, and of the September 2014 report of the Global Commission on