Multi-Level Climate Governance: Strategic Selectivities in International Politics

Brunnengräber, Achim

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“…This links back to the 'fragmentation' of global governance, whereby the management of a problem falls upon diverse international organisations with potentially contradictory objectives ). These fragmentations owe nothing to chance but are rather the product of structural 'selectivities' that are rooted in the global order and protected by powerful interests (Brunnengräber 2013). Saudi Arabia and other fossil fuel interests, for instance, actively worked to prevent any discussion on energy questions within the Climate Convention, so as to thwart any international regulation in that domain (Aykut and Castro 2017;Depledge 2008).…”

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The Climatization of Global Politics

2023

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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 Chapters "The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue", "'Incantatory' governance: global climate politics' performative turn and its wider significance for global politics", "'Climatizing' military strategy? A case study of the Indian armed forces" and "Climatizing the UN Security Council" are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.

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Section: Uneven Political Geographies Of Global Regulationmentioning

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The Climatization of Global Politics

2023

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‘Incantatory’ Governance: Global Climate Politics’ Performative Turn and its Wider Significance for Global Politics

Aykut

Morena

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2022

The Climatization of Global Politics

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The 2015 Paris agreement represents a deep-rooted change in global climate governance.While existing scholarly assessments highlight central institutional features of the Paris shift, they tend to overlook its symbolic and discursive dimensions. Our analysis shows that the Paris architecture combines two core elements: an iterative pledge and review process to stimulate global climate action; and a 'performative' narrative aimed at aligning actors' expectations on the prospect of a low-carbon future. We therefore suggest calling it an incantatory system of governance. We then examine the origins of the new approach, and find that the rise of 'soft law' approaches and communicative techniques in global climate governance are both indicative of a broader process: the entry of management culture in international organisations. Against this backdrop, we examine the prospects, limitations and caveats of the new approach and discuss its wider implications for global politics.

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“…This links back to the 'fragmentation' of global governance, whereby the management of a problem falls upon diverse international organisations with potentially contradictory objectives (Biermann et al 2009). These fragmentations owe nothing to chance but are rather the product of structural 'selectivities' that are rooted in the global order and protected by powerful interests (Brunnengräber 2013). Saudi Arabia and other fossil fuel interests, for instance, actively worked to prevent any discussion on energy questions within the Climate Convention, so as to thwart any international regulation in that domain (Aykut and Castro 2017;Depledge 2008).…”

Section: Uneven Political Geographies Of Global Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Incantatory’ governance: global climate politics’ performative turn and its wider significance for global politics

2020

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The 2015 Paris agreement represents a deep-rooted change in global climate governance. While existing scholarly assessments highlight central institutional features of the Paris shift, they tend to overlook its symbolic and discursive dimensions. Our analysis shows that the Paris architecture combines two core elements: an iterative pledge and review process to stimulate global climate action, and a 'performative' narrative aimed at aligning actors' expectations on the prospect of a low-carbon future. We therefore suggest calling it an incantatory system of governance. We then examine the origins of the new approach and find that the rise of 'soft law' approaches and communicative techniques in global climate governance are both indicative of a broader process: the entry of management culture in international organisations. Against this backdrop, we examine the prospects, limitations and caveats of the new approach and discuss its wider implications for global politics.

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Multi-Level Climate Governance: Strategic Selectivities in International Politics

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

The Climatization of Global Politics

The Climatization of Global Politics

‘Incantatory’ Governance: Global Climate Politics’ Performative Turn and its Wider Significance for Global Politics

‘Incantatory’ governance: global climate politics’ performative turn and its wider significance for global politics

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