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Charles Sabel is Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School. His latest book on climate governance, coauthored with David G. Victor, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2021.
Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.
Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.
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