According to the conventional wisdom, defection by one country from global climate cooperation should undermine the incentives for other countries to act. But new research shows that the public in the United States and China both maintain robust support for national climate reforms, even when a major carbon polluter stops cooperating.
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Mildenberger, M. Support for climate unilateralism. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 187–188 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0416-x
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