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Development Futures: Climate change and the great procrastination

Development Futures: Climate change and the great procrastination

Update: 2025-08-19
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The Institute’s Dr Melanie Pill speaks with Professor Thomas Hale, author of Long Problems: Climate change and the challenge of governing across time, about the difficulty of addressing issues, like climate change, that have such distant consequences. They discuss the barriers to addressing and governing long problems, how to build stronger institutions, and how international negotiations and agreements can be better structured to address climate change.

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Development Futures: Climate change and the great procrastination

Development Futures: Climate change and the great procrastination

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