‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?

‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?

When it comes to the climate crisis, how do you negotiate with anautocracy? It is the case today, and it is almost certain to remain so forthe dwindling number of years in which we can hope to stave off the worstof climate breakdown, that the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gasemissions come from countries that are not democratic. Add to that, many ofthe major suppliers of oil and gas – the Gulf petrostates for instance,plus Russia, Venezuela and…