Climate Policy – A History of Missed Opportunities
In a new analysis, Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Josef Radermacher examines the question of which opportunities international climate policy could have seized in the past to stabilize the climate situation at comparatively low costs. Ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, there were extensive political and scientific debates from which solutions could have emerged. Nevertheless, most of these opportunities went unused.
The new text explores these missed opportunities in depth, also considering what lessons we can draw from them for the future.
A shorter version of the text appears as an essay in Kursbuch 202: Donner, Wetter, Klima, Murmann Publishers, 2020, and is available online.
