When global leaders first began meeting to discuss an international effort on climate change, fossil fuel companies and right wing pundits complained that any deal that didn’t require everyone to transition at the same pace was unfair. Groups like the Global Climate Coalition, which brought together all the industries that objected to emissions regulations, would hold up maps and point to all the countries that weren’t required by the Kyoto Protocol to commit to emissions reductions and say: “It’s not global and it won’t