TY - BOOK AU - Vorley,Tim TI - Productivity and the Pandemic: challenges and insights from covid-19 SN - 9781800374614 U1 - 338.06 PY - 2021/// CY - UK PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Limited KW - Industrial productivity KW - COVID-19 (Disease) KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects N2 - This book examines how an error in global meta-policy set climate change negotiations on an unproductive course. The decision to base negotiations on the Montreal Protocol and overlook the importance of interests, it argues, institutionalised an approach doomed to fail. By analysing interests, science and norms in the process, and the neglect of ‘interactive minilateralism’, learning was delayed until the more promising Paris Agreement was finally concluded, only to encounter a Trump Presidency, which (ironically) might offer further learning opportunities ER -