Equity, burden sharing and development pathways: reframing international climate negotiations

Méjean, Aurélie; Lecocq, Franck; Mulugetta, Yacob

doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9302-9

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“…In the Paris Agreement, there was a move towards concepts of 'equity' (a less extensive version of CBDR that acknowledges the need for proportionate national commitments dependent on stage of development), but an agreed definition or rules on this have yet to be formalised or universally accepted (Méjean et al, 2015;Sheriff, 2019). From a scientific point of view, this lack of progress is highly problematic, as fairness is a precondition for working institutions.…”

Section: Fairnessmentioning

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Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems

Frey

Burgess²

2023

Global Discourse

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Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge of our times. In order to cope with it, we have to organise action collectively. The most important way to cooperate globally is through United Nations negotiations, known as ‘conferences of the parties’. However, progress has been very slow, and disillusionment with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process has set in. From a scientific point of view, several obstacles surfacing in these negotiations have been well researched. Institutional analysis may provide suggestions or even solutions to some of these problems. Hence, we think that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations could profit from scientific support. We provide scientific background for three prominent problems: how to reconcile different interests in a global public goods situation; how to ameliorate the consensus decision-making process; and how to design institutions to implement resolutions. Enhancing communication, trust and fairness, and enforcing sanctions, are suggested as key elements for that. Finally, we point to similar processes that have been brought to a successful end.

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Section: Fairnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems

Frey

Burgess²

2023

Global Discourse

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“…This demands robust international cooperation among the global players to tackle the world's environmental challenges of rising emissions and the resulting damage to the natural environment. According to Mejern et al. (2015), international negotiations on climate change have faced difficulties, including a lack of consensus on what is equitable, uncertainty on policy costs and a lack of political commitments.…”

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International cooperation, production side emissions and environmental sustainability

Gani

2023

IJSE

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PurposeRising greenhouse gases have contributed to global warming above the pre-industrial levels with detrimental effects on world climatic patterns. Extreme weather has inflicted drastic impacts, including loss of lives and livelihoods and economic disruption. However, collective international cooperation in adopting greenhouse gas emission mitigating measures can translate into long-run beneficial effects of improving environmental quality. This study examines if international environmental cooperation among the world's top ten polluters can reduce production side emissions.Design/methodology/approachThe panel estimation procedure was applied to data from ten top polluting countries from 2000 to 2019.FindingsThe results revealed a statistically significant inverse association between a nation's commitments to international environmental treaties and carbon dioxide emissions. Other than confirming the environmental Kuznets curve effect, industrial intensification, international trade and law rule are other strong correlations of carbon dioxide emissions.Research limitations/implicationsThe main policy implication is the urgency for the leaders of the world's top ten polluters to actively cooperate in developing and implementing new production-side carbon emission measures as well as the implementation and enforcement of existing international treaties to minimize further environmental damage and let the countries in the lower ranks of carbon emissions to enjoy the long-run benefits of the decarbonized world.Originality/valueThis study makes a new contribution to the environmental research literature by unfolding how collective global cooperation on environmental challenges can help reduce environmental damage in a coherent analytical framework.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-09-2022-0598

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“…These ongoing disagreements did not restrain the expansion of normative scholarship since the launch of INEA. Noteworthy topics of inquiry include the energy transition (Carley & Konisky, 2020;Meadowcroft, 2009), the cap-and-trade system upheld by the UNFCCC regime (Méjean et al, 2015), the distributive practice of determining carbon emission rights (Caney, 2009;Duus-Otterström & Hjorthen, 2019) and carbon trading and -taxation practices (Aldred, 2012;Hammar & Jagers, 2007;Jagers & Hammar, 2009). The normative considerations associated with these practices are embedded within wider concerns over neoliberal and/or market-regulated climate change governance practices, including climate voluntarism, business environmentalism and transnationalism at large (Castro, 2016;Okereke, 2018).…”

Section: Toward Justice: Potentialities and Pitfalls Of "Green Growth"mentioning

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20 Years of global climate change governance research: taking stock and moving forward

Pattberg

Kaiser

Widerberg

et al. 2022

Int Environ Agreements

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Research on global climate change governance is no longer primarily concerned with the international legal regime, state practice and its outcomes, but rather scrutinizes the intricate interactions between the public and the private in governing climate change. This broad trend has also taken center stage within the pages of INEA. Two decades after its establishment, we sketch the main theoretical debates, conceptual innovations and empirical findings on global climate change governance and survey the new generation of climate governance scholarship. In more detail, we sketch how climate governance research has developed into three innovative sub-debates, building on important conceptualizations and critical inquiries of earlier debates. Our aim is not so much to provide an all-encompassing assessment of global climate change governance scholarship in 2022, but rather to illustrate in what important ways current research is different from research in the early phase of INEA, and what we have learned in the process. First, we discuss scholarship on the bottom-up nature of climate governance, developing from earlier ideas on agency beyond the state and the transnationalization of governance arenas. Second, we review contributions that have more systematically engaged with the concept of governance architectures, resulting in a stimulating new academic debate on the characteristics of complex governance systems and the consequences of governance complexity and fragmentation. Third, we note a distinct normative turn in global environmental scholarship in general and global climate governance in particular, associated with question of access, accountability, allocation, fairness, justice and legitimacy. The assessment of each of these debates is centered around questions of effective and legitimate climate governance to counter the climate emergency. Finally, as a way of concluding, we critically reflect on our own scholarly shortcomings and suggest a modest remedy.

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Equity, burden sharing and development pathways: reframing international climate negotiations

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems

Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems

International cooperation, production side emissions and environmental sustainability

20 Years of global climate change governance research: taking stock and moving forward

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