Is There a Collaborative Action Mechanism for Climate Change?

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There's no info cement mechanism here, right? These these agreements don't have any teeth. The idea is that when countries, other countries can see what you're doing and not doing, that can add sort of pressure. Nobody lost a war and was forced to the table to sign this. Everybody's here voluntarily. And for a problem like climate change, we need everybody at the table"

While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the future, New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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