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UN global warming voting blocs

Description

I was listening on NPR today and heard that within the UN, there are about a dozen different blocs that vote together on global warming issues:

  • Switzerland alone
  • Developed countries
  • European group
  • "77 countries plus China" ... which is actually 134 countries
  • Various island nations most affected

Many of them are grouped in unexpected ways. I think that it should be possible to reconstruct the blocs from the voting patterns.

Data sources

  • UN voting data on issues in committee
  • validate against known blocs
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