Hugh Richards is right to identify the need for a new global regime to control and reduce fossil fuel extraction and use. But he is misguided to think the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) is a suitable model. This treaty, signed in July 1968, with the UK, USA and USSR (Russia) as depositary states, has gained a huge membership ( over 190 countries signed up), but has been a disaster in non-compliance with its disarmament obligations, in particular the nuclear weapons states members, led by the UK.
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