7. Politics of climate change

Copenhagen Accord ◽

History Of ◽

Global Carbon

‘Politics of climate change’ begins by looking at the history of the climate change negotiations, considering key milestones such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Copenhagen Accord, and the Paris Agreement. At the Paris climate meeting in 2015, world leaders agreed that global temperature increase should be kept below 2°C, with an aspirational target of 1.5°C. Despite this agreement, global carbon emissions have continued to rise every year. There are potential flaws in the approach of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We should note the various carbon trading schemes and the UN’s REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) programme, which has been subsequently refined as REDD+. What needs to be achieved politically if climate change is to be mitigated?

Development of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Negotiations under COP25: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement perspective

Open Political Science ◽

10.1515/openps-2019-0012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Majid Asadnabizadeh

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Major Step ◽

The United Nations ◽

Political Act ◽

High Level

AbstractDevelopment of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Negotiations (UNFCCC) is based on the Conference of the Parties meetings. The Paris accord is a political act setting goals to, operationalize the rulebook agreement. The 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poland agreed on a set of guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Katowice was a major step forward for operationalizing the Paris Agreement perspective though the negotiations were incomplete. The Article 6 chapter- market and non-market cooperative approaches- is being sent for completion to the next COP in Santiago. The present research has stressed that in COP25, article 6 would increase high level engagement of countries to finalize guidance with a perspective to prepare a decision by the end of the COP.

The road to Durban and beyond: the progress of international climate change negotiations

Policy Quarterly ◽

10.26686/pq.v8i2.4416 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Adrian Macey

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

The Road ◽

The Future ◽

Executive Secretary ◽

History Of ◽

International Climate ◽

International Climate Change

Following a familiar pattern of UN climate change negotiations, the 2011 Durban conference of the parties (COP17) was concluded by sleep-deprived delegates well after its scheduled end, after crises and last-minute drama. Just what it might mean for the future was not immediately obvious to observers. Early reactions ranged from seeing yet another failure by governments to grasp the seriousness and urgency of climate change – ‘a disaster for us all’ – to much more positive assessments. The executive secretary of the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Christiana Figueres, described Durban as ‘without doubt … the most encompassing and furthest reaching conference in the history of the climate change negotiations’.

The 2 °C Global Temperature Target and the Evolution of the Long-Term Goal of Addressing Climate Change—From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the Paris Agreement

Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.eng.2017.01.022 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 272-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Yun Gao ◽

Xiang Gao ◽

Xiaohua Zhang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Global Temperature ◽

Paris Agreement

International Legal Materials ◽

10.1017/s0020782900004253 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 740-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Cara A. Horowitz

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Legal Regime ◽

Global Response ◽

The Paris Agreement sets forth a new international legal regime aimed at strengthening the global response to climate change. It was adopted in December 2015 at the annual gathering of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement sits within and implements the Convention.

United Nations Framework Convention

From Paris to Poland

International Journal of Social Quality ◽

10.3167/ijsq.2018.080203 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 27-46

Author(s):

Tim Cadman ◽

Klaus Radunsky ◽

Andrea Simonelli ◽

Tek Maraseni

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Human Rights ◽

United Nations ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Climate Justice ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Social Quality ◽

This article tracks the intergovernmental negotiations aimed at combatting human-induced greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from COP21 and the creation of the Paris Agreement in 2015 to COP24 in Katowice, Poland in 2018. These conferences are explored in detail, focusing on the Paris Rulebook negotiations around how to implement market- and nonmarket-based approaches to mitigating climate change, as set out in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and the tensions regarding the inclusion of negotiating text safeguarding human rights. A concluding section comments on the collapse of Article 6 discussions and the implications for climate justice and social quality for the Paris Agreement going forward.

The Evolution of the UNFCCC

Annual Review of Environment and Resources ◽

10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-030119 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 343-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jonathan Kuyper ◽

Heike Schroeder ◽

Björn-Ola Linnér

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Kyoto Protocol ◽

Global Climate ◽

Industrial Country ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Voluntary Contributions ◽

Top Down ◽

Climate Action

This article takes stock of the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through the prism of three recent shifts: the move away from targeting industrial country emissions in a legally binding manner under the Kyoto Protocol to mandating voluntary contributions from all countries under the Paris Agreement; the shift from the top-down Kyoto architecture to the hybrid Paris outcome; and the broadening out from a mitigation focus under Kyoto to a triple goal comprising mitigation, adaptation, and finance under Paris. This review discusses the implications of these processes for the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of the UNFCCC's institutional and operational settings for meeting the convention's objectives. It ends by sketching three potential scenarios facing the UNFCCC as it seeks to coordinate the Paris Agreement and its relationship to the wider landscape of global climate action.

International Indigenous peoples dialogue with states on the united nations framework convention on climate change negotiations

Climate Change and Law Collection ◽

10.1163/9789004322714_cclc_2015-0154-002 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

A Spotlight on Negotiating Mobility in Paris: Ushering in Another New Era for the Migration and Climate Change Nexus

Negotiating Migration in the Context of Climate Change ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529201260.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 65-84

Author(s):

Sarah Louise Nash

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Large Scale ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Refugee Crisis ◽

New Era ◽

Advocacy Effort ◽

The World

This chapter explains that while much of the world was still preoccupied with scenes of people arriving at Europe's external borders in 2015 and the search for solutions to the crisis of migration that these scenes were widely taken to represent, in a setting that could not contrast more with the rawness of life and refuge being depicted in the viral images beaming their way around the world, negotiators from around the globe gathered in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The bureaucratic, meticulous, and technical world of climate change negotiations was, however, being explicitly connected to these emotional images, amid warnings that climate change would be the ‘Syria refugee crisis times 100’. The prominence of the topic of the large-scale displacement of people thus reportedly added ‘an ominous, politically sensitive undercurrent in the talks and side events’ in Paris. In a COP that was already being seen as highly relevant for the policy community on migration and climate change due to the large coordinated advocacy effort leading up to it, events playing out beyond the walls of the conference arguably brought even more relevance to this policy juncture. The chapter then considers mentions of human mobility within the Cancun Adaptation Framework and the Doha decision.

Negotiating the Paris Agreement

10.1017/9781108886246 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Civil Society ◽

United Nations ◽

Driving Forces ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Global Challenges ◽

Full Picture ◽

High Level

The 2015 Paris Agreement represents the culmination of years of intense negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Designed to curb climate change, it was negotiated by almost 200 countries who came to the table with different backgrounds, perceptions and interests. As such, the Agreement represents a triumph for multilateralism in a period otherwise characterized by nationalist turns. How did countries reach the historical agreement, and what were the driving forces behind it? This book paints a full picture by providing and analysing multifaceted insider accounts from high-level delegates who represented developed and developing countries, civil society, businesses, the French Presidency, and the UNFCCC Secretariat. In doing so, the book documents not only the negotiation of the Paris Agreement but also the dynamics and factors that shaped it. A better understanding of these dynamics and factors can guide future negotiations and help us solve global challenges.

Energy Efficiency and Urban Climate Adaption

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13147627 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 7627

Author(s):

Yongrok Choi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Energy Efficiency ◽

United Nations ◽

Urban Climate ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Great Expectation ◽

Climate Adaption ◽

When the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) was held in Madrid, Spain from 2 to 13 December, 2019, there was a great expectation for the Paris Agreement to be implemented smoothly in a very transparent, predictable way [...]