Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels.
The international community faces a conundrum. Without more ambitious action to curtail fossil fuel production, climate goals are impossible to realize. To date, an emerging array of minilateral international governance initiatives has promoted cooperation to reduce support to fossil fuels, through...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 599 - 617 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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