2014 was a year in which mammoth climate science assessments seemed to appear once a week, and policymakers made an unprecedented (albeit still sluggish) push toward establishing an effective global climate policy framework. The longstanding divide between the industrialized and developing countries over the responsibility to address global warming was partly bridged this year, in a surprising way.
After all, who would have thought at the start of 2014 that the U.S. and China would make joint commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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