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Withdrawal by multiple members from the Paris Agreement would have meant a weakening not only of the Agreement itself, but it would have also let to a de-legitimation of the norm. The case of the US contestation and the CCA norm, however, did not end in a destruction of multilateral cooperation to fight climate change but in a (re-)legitimation of the norm and the Paris Agreement.
Read MoreThe defeat of Donald Trump (despite winning 70 million votes) in the recent US election together with the continuing death and disruption resulting from the coronavirus pandemic are hugely significant events. Both point to the centrality of structural factors including poverty, racism, inequality and the vulnerability of ruling elites.
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