"Climate change is now a mainstream political issue. However, as yet there is no substantive framework for policy which offers coherence and consistency as to how national governments should cope with the long-term political challenges of climate change. This paper by the Labour peer and sociologist Anthony Giddens launches a new Policy Network project on the politics of climate change, held in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, with the kind support of the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation. Led by the paper's author and the vice chair of Policy Network Roger Liddle, this project will examine how best to develop an effective climate change policy framework through a comparative political analysis of key western democracies. It will provide a forum for the discussion of the complex politics of climate change between national and international policymakers, academics and commentators. […]"

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