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 Deadlocks of International Climate Policy—An Assessment of the Copenhagen Climate Summit

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Rudolph ◽  
Rie Watanabe ◽  
Christof Arens ◽  
Dagmar Kiyar ◽  
Hanna Wang-Helmreich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
International Climate ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Climate Convention

AbstractThis article analyses the negotiations on the future of the international climate regime at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen. It also discusses key issues in the ongoing business of implementing the Climate Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. The article lays out the main issues at stake in the negotiations, contrasts divergences in interests amongst negotiating parties, and summarises the results achieved in Copenhagen. The report discusses these results in detail and concludes with an outlook on how the challenges ahead could be overcome.

scholarly journals BRICS Countries in International Climate Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Yuri Yurievich Kovalev ◽  
Olga Sergeevna Porshneva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
International Climate

The article presents an analysis of the BRICS countries climate policies at the global and national levels. The authors consider the positions of these states within the framework of both international climate conferences (Conference of the Parties) held under the auspices of the UN since 1992, and the summits of BRICS member states in the years 2011-2020. The paper covers strategies and results of national climate policies implemented in these countries. Using structural, comparative, and content analysis methods, the authors emphasize that BRICS countries play a key role in stabilizing the climate of our planet today. It is impossible to achieve the main aim of the Paris Agreement without a comprehensive transformation of environmental practices in these societies. BRICS adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in its position towards international climate policy; the BRICS countries stand for sustainable economic growth through the introduction of new environmental technologies, and against restrictive measures that impede their economic development. At the same time, the Russian economys dependence on the extraction and export of fuel resources complicates environmental transformation. Russia is dominated by a negative narrative of climate change, where the urgent ecological modernization of the economy is seen as a threat to key sectors (oil and gas) of the economy. The implementation of international agreements to reduce the carbon intensity of the Russian economy, the creation of conditions for the transition to climate-neutral technologies, would contribute not only to the fight against global climate change, but would become a powerful incentive for the modernization of the economy, accelerating innovation and increasing its competitiveness.

scholarly journals Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 1339-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Nordhaus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Empirical Modeling ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Stable Coalition ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Economic Understanding

Notwithstanding great progress in scientific and economic understanding of climate change, it has proven difficult to forge international agreements because of free-riding, as seen in the defunct Kyoto Protocol. This study examines the club as a model for international climate policy. Based on economic theory and empirical modeling, it finds that without sanctions against non-participants there are no stable coalitions other than those with minimal abatement. By contrast, a regime with small trade penalties on non-participants, a Climate Club, can induce a large stable coalition with high levels of abatement. (JEL Q54, Q58, K32, K33)

scholarly journals Rethinking climate policy with alternative framings of carbon dioxide

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarkko Levänen ◽  
Janne I. Hukkinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Combat Climate Change

Abstract Since the earliest stages of international climate policy, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been framed and widely accepted as a problem that needs to be solved by reducing its amount in the atmosphere. In principle this is a correct and relevant starting point for efforts to decarbonize societies. At the same time, however, the unquestioned and one-sided framing of CO2 as a problem has significantly biased the strategies for tackling climate change. We introduce the origins, meanings and implications of one-sided framing of CO2 in climate policy. We also discuss how alternative framings could impact policymaking and eventually our capacity to mitigate climate change. We introduce a paradox: framing CO2 as a problem often translates into policies that hamper the implementation of technologies to decrease the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. We suggest that plurality in framing CO2 could lead to innovative ways and strategies to combat climate change.

Waving or drowning? : The legal impacts of the Cancun climate negotiations

elni Review ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Gita Parihar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
Commitment Period ◽  
The World ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Beach Resort

Negotiators from all over the world gathered in the beach resort of Cancun in December 2010 in the hope of rescuing the international climate regime from the ignominy of the failures of the Conference in Copenhagen. Their mission has been widely lauded as a success - but was it? This article examines the decisions taken in Cancun and considers their legal impacts. It considers the decision relating to the Kyoto Protocol and its implications, as well as the decision in the Long Term Cooperative Action (or LCA) track, which focuses on the “full, effective and sustained” implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The discussion highlights the fact that many of the most contentious issues in the negotiations have been left for Durban. After touching on the question of whether agreement was reached at all, the article concludes that moving all significant progress in the negotiations into the LCA track whilst failing to conclude a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will result in a severe weakening of the international climate regime and must be resisted. It also highlights the large gap between the targets on the table and those demanded by science and equity as well as going on to consider the implications of this in practical terms.

scholarly journals Glimmers of hope: a global Green New Deal is feasible

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
Lukas P. Fesenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Radical Approach

In light of limited international climate policy efforts, many are pessimistic about effective climate change mitigation. However, there is still a chance for a global Green New Deal which would reduce both socio-economic inequalities and greenhouse gas emissions. Unfolding feedbacks between technological, behavioral, and political changes provide an opportunity for transforming our societies. Yet, a Green New Deal in line with the green growth paradigm seems politically more feasible than a radical approach that rests upon a de-growth paradigm.

Configurations to Superior Environmental Innovation Strategy: A Both–And Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 108602662110316
Author(s):  
Tiziana Russo-Spena ◽  
Nadia Di Paola ◽  
Aidan O’Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
Data Set

An effective climate change action involves the critical role that companies must play in assuring the long-term human and social well-being of future generations. In our study, we offer a more holistic, inclusive, both–and approach to the challenge of environmental innovation (EI) that uses a novel methodology to identify relevant configurations for firms engaging in a superior EI strategy. A conceptual framework is proposed that identifies six sets of driving characteristics of EI and two sets of beneficial outcomes, all inherently tensional. Our analysis utilizes a complementary rather than an oppositional point of view. A data set of 65 companies in the ICT value chain is analyzed via fuzzy-set comparative analysis (fsQCA) and a post-QCA procedure. The results reveal that achieving a superior EI strategy is possible in several scenarios. Specifically, after close examination, two main configuration groups emerge, referred to as technological environmental innovators and organizational environmental innovators.

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