With the rapid development of domestic action on climate change such as Emissions Trading schemes in EU, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and now China, is an international agreement on climate change still critical or does it start to play a different

With the rapid development of domestic action on climate change such as Emissions Trading schemes in EU, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and now China, is an international agreement on climate change still critical or does it start to play a different

Essay structure:

-Intro

-Current state of play – international COPs and their success or failure

-Domestic schemes analysis, are they working?

-Carbon leakage

-Future prediction

-Need for change (rapid)
Intergeneration integrity

-Conclusion
-International agreements important
-Not mandatory but general consensus can lead to customary international law