scholarly journals The Multi-level System of Global Climate Governance - the Model and its Current State

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Jänicke
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Level System ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Current State ◽  
Multi Level

Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge in the IPCC reports: a Systematic Comparative Analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Over Time

<p>We recently witness an increasing inclusion of so-called indigenous or traditional knowledge (ITK) in multi-level climate governance arrangements. Some scholars ascribe this development a high potential for fostering legitimacy and effectivity of global climate governance. However, there are also more critical voices, considering the existing political inclusion of ITK deficient or inadequate. In view of the ongoing controversial discussion, this paper critically studies the scope and modalities of ITK inclusion with reference to one of the crucial sources of epistemic authority within global climate governance – the IPCC. The empirical analysis conducts a systematic quantitative and qualitative content analysis of IPCC Assessment Reports and Special Reports from 1995 to 2019. It studies the different conceptualizations of ITK over time, as well as dominant legitimation narratives arguing for the inclusion of ITK in climate governance. In a second step, consequences for the legitimacy of the IPCC as epistemic authority and global climate governance arrangements more in general are deduced and discussed.  </p>

The ECtHR, transregional dialogues and global constitutionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-551
Author(s):  
WAYNE SANDHOLTZ
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Level System ◽  
Global Order ◽  
European Court ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Decentralized Mechanism

AbstractIn A Cosmopolitan Legal Order, Stone Sweet and Ryan suggest that ‘from the standpoint of global law, we see that the [European Court of Human Rights] has taken its place in a pluralist, rights-based international order, as one trustee of this global order’. This article is a preliminary attempt to evaluate signs of movement toward global rights review. A multi-level charter of rights exists in the network of international and regional human rights treaties and in national constitutions. An incipient structure of global rights review exists in the form of the regional human rights courts, which see themselves as trustees of the larger global human rights system. Judicial dialogue among the regional courts allows for informal, decentralized coordination among them. The European Court of Human Rights serves as a point of reference for the African and Inter-American systems, though these also cite each other. Transregional judicial dialogue establishes a rudimentary, informal and decentralized mechanism of coordination among bodies that exercise a review function in the multi-level system of international human rights.

International Governance on Carbon Tariff and Its Vacuum in International Regime

2013 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mou WANG
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
International Governance ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Emission Quota ◽  
Carbon Tariff

Drawing on the idea that countries are eligible to implement differentiated emission reduction policies based on their respective capabilities, some parties of UNFCCC attempt to weaken the principle of “Common but differentiated responsibilities(CBDR)” and impose carbon tariff on international trade. This initiative is in fact another camouflage to burden developing countries with emission cut obligation, which has no doubt undermined the development rights of developing countries. This paper defines Carbon Tariff as border measures that target import goods with embodied carbon emission. It can be import tariffs or other domestic tax measures that adjust border tax, which includes plain import tariffs and export rebates, border tax adjustment, emission quota and permit etc. For some developed countries, carbon tariffs mean to sever trade protectionism and to build trade barriers. Its theoretical arguments like “loss of comparative advantage”, “carbon leakage decreases environmental effectiveness” and “theoretical model bases” are pseudo-propositions without international consensus. Carbon tariff has become an intensively debated issue due to its duality of climate change and trade, but neither UNFCCC nor WTO has clarified this issue or has indicated a clear statement in this regard. As a result, it allows some parties to take advantage of this loophole and escape its international climate change obligation. Carbon tariff is an issue arising from global climate governance. To promote the cooperation of global climate governance and safeguard the social and economic development of developing countries, a fair and justified climate change regime and international trade institution should be established, and the settlement of the carbon tariff issue should be addressed within these frameworks. This paper argues that the international governance of carbon tariff should in cooperation with other international agreements; however, principles and guidelines regarding this issue should be developed under the UNFCCC. Based on these principles and guidelines, WTO can develop related technical operation provisions.

scholarly journals Multi-level climate governance and the role of the subnational level

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Jörgensen ◽  
Anu Jogesh ◽  
Arabinda Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Governance ◽  
Multi Level

Deadlock or new opening? Current state and prospects for development of Lithuanian-Belarusian relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Justyna Olędzka
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of this article is to discuss the trajectory of Belarusian-Lithuanian relations with a particular focus on the period after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, which resulted in a change in international relations in the region. This was the moment that redefined the Lithuanian-Belarusian relations, which until 2020 were satisfactory for both sides (especially in the economic aspect). However, Lithuania began to pursue a reactive policy of promoting the democratisation of Belarus and provided multi-level support to Belarusian opposition forces. The current problems in bilateral relations (e.g., the future of Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant located in Astravyets) have been put on the agenda for discussion at the EU level, while the instruments of a hybrid conflict in the form of an influx of immigrants into Lithuania, controlled by the Belarusian regime, have become a key issue for the future prospects of relations between Belarus and Lithuania.

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