Assess, using examples, the success of local and global strategies in reducing future global warming.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today according to the UN Evironmental Programme. Due to the fact the climate chage is a global issue it is important that countries from across the world participate in trying to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Global agreements, such as the 2016 Paris Agreement, have encouraged members to work together to try and minimise global warming to two degrees celcius by the end of the century. The Paris Agreement could be said to be successful as it involves 197 parties who are all employing ways of reducing the effects of climate change. However, international agreements often do not consider the needs of individual nations. For example, international agreements, like the Kyoto Protocol, encouraged the use of renewable energy for all members but often renewable energy is expensive and unaccessable for many LEDCs so the plans put forward in the agreements do not preveil.

Local agreements are often more suited to the needs of the local area. For example, the electric car subsidy that used to stand in the UK. This helped reduce the use of conventional fossil fuels to renewable energy which, in turn, helps reduces greenhouse gas emmissions and climate change. However, these strategies are very small scale and do not make much of a difference in the overall contribution of greenhouse gases in to the environment. 

Overall, it is important to have a mixture of local and global strategies in place to help limit the effects of climate change. Local strategies that work for indiviual nations should be taking place in different forms all over the globe but it is important to have some international regulation so that all countries are actively trying to mitigate climate change.