The role of the Asia Pacific Partnership in discursive contestation of the international climate regime

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey McGee ◽  
Ros Taplin
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Climate

Filling in for Governments? The Role of the Private Actors in the International Climate Regime

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Charlotte Streck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
State Actor ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Private Actors

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change abandons the Kyoto Protocol’s paradigm of binding emissions targets and relies instead on countries’ voluntary contributions. However, the Paris Agreement encourages not only governments but also sub-national governments, corporations and civil society to contribute to reaching ambitious climate goals. In a transition from the regulated architecture of the Kyoto Protocol to the open system of the Paris Agreement, the Agreement seeks to integrate non-state actors into the treaty-based climate regime. In 2014 the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Peru and France created the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action (and launched the Global Climate Action portal). In December 2019, this portal recorded more than twenty thousand climate-commitments of private and public non-state entities, making the non-state venues of international climate meetings decisively more exciting than the formal negotiation space. This level engagement and governments’ response to it raises a flurry of questions in relation to the evolving nature of the climate regime and climate change governance, including the role of private actors as standard setters and the lack of accountability mechanisms for non-state actions. This paper takes these developments as occasion to discuss the changing role of private actors in the climate regime.

Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate: Blockade or Impe- tus for the International Climate Regime?

elni Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Christoph Holtwisch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
International Climate

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate [APP or AP6] is a very new phenomenon in international climate policy. It has important effects on the traditional climate regime formed by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [FCCC] and its Kyoto Protocol [KP]. From its own point of view, the APP is a grouping of key nations to address serious and long-term challenges, including anthropogenic climate change. The APP partners - Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the USA - represent roughly half the world economy and population, energy consumption and global greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, this “coalition of the emitting” is – and will be – a central factor in international climate policy.

scholarly journals The Paris Agreement and its Rulebook in a Problem-Solving Perspective

Climate Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
Steinar Andresen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Negative Power ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Domestic Interests

The aim of this article is to assess and explain the effectiveness of the international climate regime in a problem-solving perspective, with a focus on mitigation. As CO2 emissions have increased by more than 60 per cent since the start of the climate negotiations, effectiveness is exceedingly low. In explaining the performance of the regime, the main focus is on its problem-solving ability, defined as a function of power, leadership, and institutional design. ‘Negative’ power and a lack of leadership constitute important reasons for low effectiveness. In this broader perspective, the role of institutional design, exemplified by the Paris Agreement and its Rulebook, is fairly modest, and its significance should not be exaggerated. The Agreement and Rulebook score high in terms of ambition, but whether the rules will ever realize those ambitions remains to be seen. Domestic interests and priorities of the most important emitting countries will be decisive in this regard.

scholarly journals Role of CCS in a New International Climate Regime

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 7502-7511
Author(s):  
Duan ◽  
Tetsuo Yuhara ◽  
Hiroshi Ujita ◽  
Kazuhiro Tsuzuki ◽  
Toshikazu Shindou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Climate

scholarly journals Designing REDD+ to Be Just: Considerations for a Legally Binding Instrument

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowena MAGUIRE
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Climate ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Common But Differentiated Responsibility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Clear Objective

The international climate regime is in the process of negotiating a legally binding instrument concerning Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). The paper starts by exploring the complex web of decisions and advices that currently regulate REDD+ initiatives within the international climate regime. This is followed by an analysis of justice issues raised by non-state actors in the REDD+ international negotiations. The paper concludes by building on this analysis to identify some relevant considerations when seeking to design a just and legally binding REDD+ instrument. These considerations include: the impact of market- versus fund-based investment channels, the importance of defining a clear objective; the inclusion and role of international principles such as sovereignty, preventative action, common but differentiated responsibility, sustainable development, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent; the appropriate design of REDD+ safeguards and the inclusion of grievance mechanisms within the instrument which provide guidance on resolving disputes associated with REDD+ investment.

After Durban, what Legal Form for the Future International Climate Regime?

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
S. Maljean-Dubois ◽  
M. Wemaëre
Keyword(s):  
Climate Regime ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Climate

scholarly journals How the Belt and Road Initiative Can Help Strengthen the Role of the SCO and Deepen China’s Cooperation with Russia and the Countries of Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Na-Xi ◽  
Huang Meng-Fang ◽  
Lu Shan-Bing
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ◽  
Improved Model ◽  
The Belt And Road

China and Russia issued a joint statement on 8 May 2015 outlining the main approaches to linking the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) projects. Both parties believe that to build the ‘Belt and Road’ project, it is necessary to use economic integration laws and actively enhance the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SOC) in stimulating regional economic cooperation, promoting construction of the SREB and linkage to and cooperation with the EAEU, creating a Free Trade Area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) and simultaneously begin creating a similar FTA among China, Russia and Central Asia to gradually stimulate interstate trade and promote regional economic development, actively developing—along with an improved model of energy cooperation—infrastructure and related industry and strengthening business contacts and jointly promoting construction of the SREB.

An Inquiry into Life in the Universe (Vol. 25, No. 10, Full Issue)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neurodegenerative Disorders ◽  
Human Gene ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Clinical Development ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Catalyst Potential ◽  
The Universe

For the month of October 2021, APBN explores astrobiology and the planetary sciences. In Features, we look into the age-old question: are we alone in the Universe? If not, how might life emerge elsewhere in the Cosmos and taking what we know now, where do we go from here? Then we have a special contribution by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, astronomer and pioneer of astrobiology, who discusses the Panspermia theory and the role of culture in delaying the acceptance of the theory. In Columns, we review the latest human gene therapy trials using adeno-associated viruses as vectors to treat neurodegenerative disorders. Finally, in Spotlights, we share highlights from a conference by SGInnovate and CATALYST potential of bioprinting in personalised medicine and an interview with Dr. Senthil Sockalingam, Head of IQVIA Biotech, JAPAC & Chief Medical Officer, APAC, on its expansion in the Asia-Pacific and how the company's new innovative approach will utilise data and analytics to accelerate clinical development.

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