ABSTRACT
The essential problem with the current threat of climate change is that it is man-made and that the pace of change will challenge the adaptive capacities of all societies. 1 Humans can mitigate the threat by containing their contribution to the accumulation of greenhouse gases. But this requires a global framework as emissions in one part of the globe affect every other part. The geopolitics of climate change is about how these efforts to mitigate the threat and adapt to it impinge on the relationships of power between political jurisdictions, which, in today's world, are basically the states that constitute the international system.
