Die Umwelt- und Klimapolitik der letzten Regierung Merkel zwischen Protest und Pandemie: „Business as usual“ auf hohem Niveau

Töller, Annette Elisabeth

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-38002-1_16

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“…The new coalition ended 16 years of center-right government under Chancellor Angela Merkel. Although dedicated to the fight against climate change, Merkel for long had been accused of being too slow and timid on climate policy (Töller, A., 2022). The new German government immediately set out to push through more ambitious climate and energy policies, even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought on a national energy security crisis.…”

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30 Years of International Climate Negotiations: Are They Still our Best Hope?

Clémençon

2023

The Journal of Environment & Development

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30 years of international climate talks have not prevented the globe from heating up more than 1 degree Celsius over post-industrial times, nor have they kept the year 2022 from breaking new temperature and extreme weather records around the world. Although the international process has been indispensable for building the foundation to move out of the carbon age, it is now time to shift attention away from the acrimonious climate talks and treat them as a sideshow, rather than the solution to the problem. An analysis of 30 years of international climate negotiations shows that multilateral climate diplomacy years ago stopped driving countries’ action. National political opportunity structures, normative shifts, economic factors, and external events are what shape countries’ climate policies largely independent of international climate negotiations.

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