Bridging the greenhouse-gas emissions gap

Blok, Kornelis; Hoehne, Niklas; Leun, K. van der; Harrison, Nicholas

doi:10.1038/nclimate1602

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“…In addition, in the current framing of the 2°C target, the involvement of civil society is still limited, while transition and transformational change are hardly taken into account (Wise et al 2012;Park et al 2012). In fact, even if commendable initiatives have been launched (Blok et al 2012) and voluntary arrangements with great potential like the International Cooperative Initiatives have been acknowledged by the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (Widerberg and Pattberg 2014), these projects are still not representative of a true engagement of society as a whole to reach the target globally. Furthermore, the range of stakeholders involved in policy spaces remains marginal (Sepibus and Holzer 2014).…”

Section: Disembeddedness (2011-2015)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The conferences of the parties that followed-in Durban (2011), Doha (2012), Warsaw (2013) and Lima (2014)-revived international negotiations. However, in terms of the 2°C target specifically, they did not lead to more ambitious policy responses (Blok et al 2012), nor did they provide any substantial addition to the 2°C target in terms of fulfilment (Bodansky and Diringer 2014;Pandey 2014). While these conferences marked some important innovation and advancement towards the global climate agreement expected to be reached by 2015 in Paris, the negotiating parties were still unable to define a common climate agenda, despite the agreement they reached with the Bali Action Plan 5 in 2007.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Governing the transformation towards ‘nature-inclusive’ agriculture: insights from the Netherlands

Runhaar

2017

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Targets are widely employed in environmental governance. In this paper, we investigate the construction of the 2°C climate target, one of the best known targets in global environmental governance. Our paper examines this target through a historical reconstruction that identifies four different phases: framing, consolidation and diffusion, adoption, and disembeddedness. Our analysis shows that, initially, the target was science-driven and predominantly EU-based; it then became progressively accepted at the international level, despite a lack of broader debate among governments on the policy implications and required measures for implementation. Once the 2°C target was endorsed at the level of the United Nations, the nature of the target changed from being policy-prescriptive to being largely symbolic. In this phase, the target became a disembedded object in global governance not linked to a shared agenda nor to coordinated and mutually binding mitigation efforts. The 2015 Paris Agreement marks the last stage in this development and may have further solidified the target as a disembedded object. In the final part of the paper, we suggest ways to overcome the current situation and to develop the 2°C target into a fully fledged global environmental governance target.

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Governing the transformation towards ‘nature-inclusive’ agriculture: insights from the Netherlands

Runhaar

2017

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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“…For a more detailed description of these and other international initiatives see Roelfsema et al (2015), who also made an assessment of how much greenhouse emission reduction may be expected from these initiatives by 2020 and 2030. Other evaluations of the reduction potential have been made by Blok et al (2012) and UNEP (2015a).…”

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Economic estimation of complete CO2 sequestration reduction cycle

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Sidorova²

2017

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“…gap between business-as-usual trends in emissions and environmental targets (Blok et al 2012). Wedging the Gap is a bottom-up approach, building on all the rapid developments in technology and implementation and on the great initiatives in many places to bridge the global emissions gap.…”

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“…Wedging the Gap is a bottom-up approach, building on all the rapid developments in technology and implementation and on the great initiatives in many places to bridge the global emissions gap. It consists of amplifying the actions of frontrunners in 21 types of activity by applying them on a large scale, under the leadership of organizations already active in the field (Blok et al 2012).…”

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