Development Futures: Climate change and the great procrastination

About this episode

Dr Melanie Pill interviews Professor Thomas Hale about the challenges of addressing climate change and the governance of long-term issues.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Dr Melanie Pill

Guest: Professor Thomas Hale

Topics covered

• climate change
• governance
• international agreements
• institution building
• long-term consequences

Keywords

• climate change
• governance
• international negotiations
• long problems
• institutional barriers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Long Problems: Climate change and the challenge of governing across time

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