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The nuts and bolts of global climate change negotiations rarely are as riveting as other major world events, like the electoral victory of Donald Trump in the United States, the Syrian civil war, or the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, but they can lead to long-term outcomes of tremendous importance. In this vein, the full implementation of the Paris climate change accords on November 4, 2016, on the eve of the COP 22 meetings in Marrakesh represented a significant step toward climate change mitigation, albeit one taken decades later than needed. The conditions of its approval, however, have thrown…