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IPCC stand for intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

(IPCC) presented its first report in 1990.

In 1850, the group of countries that today make up the European Union accounted for a full 89 percent of global emissions.

The US chose to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.

The Paris Agreement is a “bottomup” agreement with one common objective—to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Many contextual factors are among those that seem to matter for people’s opinions on climate change and the policy instruments to reverse it. First, there is political culture.

Many contextual factors are among those that seem to matter for people’s opinions on climate change and the policy instruments to reverse it. First, there is political culture. To count a couple, our book makes a list: Political culture, social norms, path dependency, individual-specific factors, fundamental values.

In 2009, the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) generated 25 percent of world GDP.

EU CO2 emissions in 2015 accounted for 9.6 percent of the global total.

The US in particular had sharply increased its emissions in the first half of the twentieth century.