Prove Paris was more than paper promises

Victor, David G.; Akimoto, Keigo; Kaya, Yoichi; Yamaguchi, Masatake; Cullenward, Danny; Hepburn, Cameron

doi:10.1038/548025a

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“…Research in this area also maps out how networks of policy elites are engaging in the climate debate (Fisher, Leifeld, et al 2013;Fisher, Waggle, et al 2013;Fisher et al 2018). Similar claims are made in the social science literature on polycentric governance (Cole 2015;Dorsch and Flachsland 2017;Gillard et al 2017;Hsu et al 2017;Ostrom 2014;Spreng and Sovacool 2016), with some focus on global climate politics since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 (Oberthür 2016;Victor et al 2017). Polycentricity refers to a form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making.…”

Section: Governancementioning

confidence: 68%

Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change

Jorgenson¹,

Fiske²,

Hubacek³

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This article provides a review of recent anthropological, archaeological, geographical, and sociological research on anthropogenic drivers of climate change, with a particular focus on drivers of carbon emissions, mitigation and adaptation. The four disciplines emphasize cultural, economic, geographic, historical, political, and social-structural factors to be important drivers of and responses to climate change. Each of these disciplines has unique perspectives and makes noteworthy contributions to our shared understanding of anthropogenic drivers, but they also complement one another and contribute to integrated, multidisciplinary frameworks. The article begins with discussions of research on temporal dimensions of human drivers of carbon emissions, highlighting interactions between long-term and near-term drivers. Next, descriptions of the disciplines' contributions to the understanding of mitigation and adaptation are provided. It concludes with a summary of key lessons offered by the four disciplines as well as suggestions for future research.

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Section: Governancementioning

confidence: 68%

Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change

Jorgenson¹,

Fiske²,

Hubacek³

et al. 2018

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“…In turn, such research serves to support the UN climate negotiations by informing the development of common issues, methods, and metrics for NDCs. This is essential for tracking countries' progress made in implementing and achieving NDCs, to review NDCs, and for countries to submit new and more ambitious NDCs every 5 years (see UNFCCC 2015b; Victor et al 2017). Despite the critique presented in this Letter, we are convinced that such research can make NDCs a crucial instrument for international cooperation and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change effectively.…”

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Beyond headline mitigation numbers: we need more transparent and comparable NDCs to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change

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Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) were key to reaching the Paris Agreement and will be instrumental in implementing it. Research was quick to identify the 'headline numbers' of NDCs: if these climate action plans were fully implemented, global mean warming by 2100 would be reduced from approximately 3.6 to 2.7°C above pre-industrial levels (Höhne et al. Climate Pol 17:1-17, 2016; Rogelj et al. Nature 534:631-639, 2016). However, beyond these headline mitigation numbers, NDCs are more difficult to analyse and compare. UN climate negotiations have so far provided limited guidance on NDC formulation, which has resulted in varying scopes and contents of NDCs, often lacking details concerning ambitions. If NDCs are to become the long-term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies. Our analysis of INDCs and NDCs (Once a party ratifies the Paris Agreement, it is invited to turn its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution Climatic Change (2018) 147:23-29 https://doi

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“…Though these pledges are set to encourage others, it was apprehended that the national governments may not be able to honour these 'paper promises' and as a result, the Agreement will fail like the Kyoto Protocol. Therefore, these promises should be revisited before 2020 when the formal review process will begin [61].…”

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Energy Revolution for Our Common Future: An Evaluation of the Emerging International Renewable Energy Law

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Climate change poses profound threats to the Earth and its people. Its mitigation, therefore, demands common but differentiated actions with comprehensive and coordinated approach. The global community has pledged to mitigate various greenhouse gases in some international soft law instruments. Exploitation of renewables to generate energy and produce electricity is simultaneously suggested for the last couple of decades as a viable alternative in mitigating climate change. This gets momentum with the adoption of the historical and universally ratified Paris Agreement in 2016 where energy is placed at the heart of the Agreement. Energy, where renewable energy is a branch, is generally regulated and governed domestically and so, international legal regime is still evolving in this regard. In the absence of any specific and direct international instrument on energy and renewable energy, published literatures have considered this topic from different directions ranging from climate change to the principle of national sovereignty, economic, trade and investment issues. In this backdrop, this paper aims to introduce various renewable sources, prospects and challenges in their promotion that may help to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. Relevant international law provisions have been evaluated, performances of the relevant regional and international organizations active in this sector are highlighted and some of the disputes in this area considered in international forums are duly addressed. It is revealed that strong political will of the global community in fulfilling their commitments made so far in different international forums is the key to transforming the world into a better one for the future generation.

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Prove Paris was more than paper promises

Cited by 135 publications

References 7 publications

Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change

Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change

Beyond headline mitigation numbers: we need more transparent and comparable NDCs to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change

Energy Revolution for Our Common Future: An Evaluation of the Emerging International Renewable Energy Law

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