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The paper focuses on what the US’ June 2017 announcement that it would leave the Paris Agreement could mean for the future of the global climate policy regime. To inform this review, the author also briefly examines the limited success of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the subsequent evolution of international climate policy cooperation. He concludes that the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is likely to slow down the development of cleaner technologies and energy sources, something which may jeopardize China and India's plans to reduce their own emissions of greenhouse gasses.