scholarly journals Teaching and Practicing Climate Politics at College of the Atlantic: Student-inspired, Student-driven

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Stabinsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics

College of the Atlantic students past and present play leadership roles in the international climate justice youth movement. Student interest in climate change politics at the global level, particularly within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has inspired the development of a range of courses at COA in global environmental diplomacy. The courses provide a climate justice framework for understanding the geopolitics and political economy of the negotiations, serve to link students with key actors in the climate justice movement, and ultimately to contribute to their own development as climate justice leaders.

International Politics of Climate Change: A Study of Issues and Challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taku Maji ◽  
Rashida Ather
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
International Climate Change

The problem of Climate Change has become an enormous political and policy issue, at the same time it is also a conceptual and deliberative challenge. Global temperature is increasing day by day because of human caused greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, and this warming is affecting both nature and human wellbeing. There is an urgent need to address the problem of climate change with all its related issues. While international environmental law has achieved notable successes and International legal programs to deal with climate change are already well underway. Indian climate politics continues to be focused on climate change as a foreign policy concern, and centred on climate negotiations; in a manner that is consistent with India’s development needs and foreign policy concerns. The present paper explores the international climate change politics; negotiation process and domestic policy. It also investigates the issues of fairness and equity in the international climate change law and policy.

The Politics of Climate Change

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loren R. Cass
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Political Response ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Climate Change Politics

Climate politics presents difficulties for study given its interdisciplinary nature and the scientific complexities involved in climate change. Climate change politics had got its start in the mid- to late 1980s, as climate science became more and more accessible to policy makers and the general public. Yet prior to 2008, climate politics was only touched upon in major publications on international relations, with the exception of policy journals. Climate change was frequently referenced in articles on a range of topics, but it was not the primary focus of analysis. The recent years have seen an explosion in literature focusing on the topic, however. The potential for massive economic, political, and ecological dislocation from the consequences of climate change as well as from the potential policies to address the problem have since resulted in an extensive literature, with scholars addressing aspects of climate politics from every paradigm within international relations, as well as drawing on research in numerous other related disciplines. In addition, efforts to address the consequences of climate change have evoked controversial ethical and distributive justice questions that have produced an important normative literature. Overall, the literature on climate politics centers on two issues: how we can explain the international political response to climate change, as well as how the international community should respond to climate change.

India and international norms of climate governance: a constructivist analysis of normative congruence building

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 997-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAYLEY STEVENSON
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Important Player ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis article explores the process by which norms of international climate governance have diffused and evolved over time. The author develops a constructivist explanation for observed normative shifts in international climate governance. This explanation highlights the importance of building and maintaining congruence between domestic conditions and international norms. Due to the inherently fluid nature of both domestic conditions and international norms, it is argued that normative congruence building should be understood as an integral and iterative aspect of the norm diffusion process. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of the norm diffusion process in the context of India: a state commonly identified as an important player in international climate change politics, but one that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention in this area.

Learning about Climate Change: Finance Ministries in International Climate Change Politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
International Climate Change

In the course of the last four years, finance ministries have increasingly become involved in the international climate change negotiations. Their involvement has to a large degree been an outcome of the framing of climate change as a market failure. This framing calls for an active climate change policy and is at odds with the framing of climate change policy that was previously predominant in finance ministries: that it constitutes expenditure to be avoided. The persistence of both framings has led to clashes within and between finance ministries with respect to climate change. The article calls for further research focusing on the role of the two frames and of finance ministries as actors in climate change politics.

scholarly journals Climate Change Politics in Canada and the EU—from Carbon Democracy to a Green Deal?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Markus Lederer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
State Agents ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
Descriptive Level ◽  
The Eu

The idea of a green deal transforming industrialized societies’ climate policies in a sustainable manner has become highly popular in various countries. The study takes up this notion focusing on climate policy initiatives in Canada and the EU, raising three interrelated issues: (i) on a descriptive level, the study asks where we stand and what has so far been achieved regarding climate policy; (ii) analytically, the study provides a theoretical explanation of why progress has been slow in the EU and hardly visible in Canada, making use of the concept of carbon democracy; (iii) on a prescriptive level, the study explores what will be needed to make a green deal successful, arguing that one has to accept that a green deal is a deeply political project that will create winners and losers and that not all losers can be compensated under the label of a “just transition”. The argument advanced is that the EU and Canada represent a form of carbon democracy in which the extensive use of carbon laid the foundation for establishing democratic institutions and strongly shaped them. The paper shows that the extensive influence of carbon-related activities not only empowers specific non-state agents but is rather deeply enmeshed in the societal and political genome of both regions’ polities. The claim that follows is that climate politics in Canada and the EU will have to be deeply transformative and therefore disruptive in order to be successful.  

12. The Challenge of the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Vogler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
International Climate ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the European Union's external environmental policy, with particular emphasis on the challenge faced by the EU in exercising leadership in global environmental governance and in the development of the climate change regime. It first considers the international dimension of the EU environmental policy as well as the issue of sustainable development before discussing the EU's efforts to lead the negotiation of an international climate regime up until the 2015 Paris conference. It then explores how the different energy interests of the member states have been accommodated in order to sustain European credibility. It also looks at the question of climate and energy security in the EU and concludes with an assessment of the factors that determine the success or failure of the EU in climate diplomacy, including those that relate to coordination and competence problems peculiar to the EU as a climate negotiator.

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