From Kyoto to Paris

2022 ◽  
pp. 1985-2004
Author(s):  
Moses Metumara Duruji ◽  
Faith O. Olanrewaju ◽  
Favour U. Duruji-Moses
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Binding Agreement

The Earth Summit of 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro awakened the consciousness of the world to the danger of climate change. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provided the platform for parties to negotiate on ways of moving forward. The global acknowledgement of the weightiness of the climate change and the future of the planet galvanized international agreements to this regard. Consequently, a landmark agreement was brokered in 1992 at Kyoto, Japan and 2015 in Paris, France. However, the strong issues of national interest tend to bedevil the implementation that would take the world forward on climate change. The chapter therefore examined multilateralism from the platform of climate change conferences and analyzed the political undertone behind disappointing outcomes even when most of the negotiators realized that the only way to salvage the impending doom is a multilateral binding agreement when nation-state can subsume their narrow interest.

From Kyoto to Paris

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Moses Metumara Duruji ◽  
Faith O. Olanrewaju ◽  
Favour U. Duruji-Moses
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Binding Agreement

The Earth Summit of 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro awakened the consciousness of the world to the danger of climate change. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provided the platform for parties to negotiate on ways of moving forward. The global acknowledgement of the weightiness of the climate change and the future of the planet galvanized international agreements to this regard. Consequently, a landmark agreement was brokered in 1992 at Kyoto, Japan and 2015 in Paris, France. However, the strong issues of national interest tend to bedevil the implementation that would take the world forward on climate change. The chapter therefore examined multilateralism from the platform of climate change conferences and analyzed the political undertone behind disappointing outcomes even when most of the negotiators realized that the only way to salvage the impending doom is a multilateral binding agreement when nation-state can subsume their narrow interest.

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

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
New Era ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
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.

scholarly journals New Zealand and climate change: what are the stakes and what can New Zealand do?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Bailey ◽  
Tor Hakon Jackson Inderberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Nationally Determined Contributions ◽  
The United Nations

Following the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2015, governments around the world now face the task of developing strategies to meet their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) – UN terminology for emissions reduction goals to 2030 – and their broader contributions to the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global average temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels (UNFCCC, 2015a, article 2.1(a)). Paris represented a crucial starting point, but the decisions by Paula Bennett, New Zealand’s new minister for climate change issues, and her international counterparts will determine whether COP21 produced just warm words or genuinely charted a course to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change.

scholarly journals The policy process on climate change

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Sarvašová ◽  
A. Kaliszewski
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Earth ◽  
United Nation

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change accepted in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro provides principles and framework for cooperative international action on mitigating climate change. But it soon became clear that more radical targets were needed to encourage particular countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In response, countries that have ratified the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change accepted the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The rulebook for how the Kyoto Protocol will be implemented – the Marrakech Accord, was agreed in 2001. This paper describes political instruments and facilities of mitigating climate change by forestry proposed in those political documents.

Indian Corporations, Climate Change, and The Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Trishla Dubey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The World ◽  
Rio Conference ◽  
Private Corporations

Climate change is one of the biggest problems that humans have created for the whole of mankind. Discussions on combating climate change have been continuing since last 30 years when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted at the Rio Conference in 1992. Despite this, nothing significant has been achieved so far. Due to public sector’s finite capabilities and increasing footprint of globalization and privatization, the world is rolling its eyes now on the private corporations to take the lead in this fight against climate change. This article will discuss the historic role that these corporations have played since climate change negotiation days, their contribution at present, and the progressive or regressive role they are set to play in future. The special focus of this article will be on analysing the role of Indian corporations and the existing legal framework governing them and its challenges. At the culmination of this article, the author will try to suggest mechanisms to magnify and intensify private sector contribution in combating climate change with minimum friction and maximum accountability and cohesion.

scholarly journals William Nordhaus’s climate club proposal: thinking globally about climate change economics

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Bertram
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Climate Change Economics

‘Think globally, act locally’ has long been a rallying cry for progressives and green activists. In this article I stress the importance of thinking globally before acting locally in the wake of the 2015 Paris conference on climate change. Both the content of the Paris Agreement and the political rhetoric surrounding it feel like a return to 1992 following the signing of the Rio Declaration and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

scholarly journals Cross-Party Collaboration on Climate Policy: the experience of GLOBE-NZ

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kennedy Graham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Baseline Levels ◽  
Human Problem

Climate change has been described as the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced (Ban Ki-moon, 2014). No surprise, then, that it is challenging human problem solving, to an unprecedented degree. The 2015 Paris Agreement was a breakthrough in climate diplomacy, but progress is confined so far to the political psychology of achieving universality for emission reductions, a quarter of a century after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) called for a return to baseline levels within a decade.

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