The BRICS on climate change global governance

Rinaldi, Augusto Leal; Martuscelli, Patrícia Nabuco

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“…Yet, Russia continues to be reluctant in its international commitments (Gladun and Ahsan 2016). It consistently engages with the UNFCCC (Graybill 2015), but like other emerging economies (Rinaldi and Martuscelli 2016), its modest GHG emission reduction pledge has cast doubt on its dedication to keeping GMT below 2 C (Sharmina 2017). Additionally, Russia's local governance engagement with climate change is almost entirely absent, creating a disconnect between local needs and understandings of the ACC threat (Graybill 2015).…”

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Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case

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Poberezhskaya

2022

Climatic Change

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In this paper, we consider climate scepticism in the Russian context. We are interested in whether this has been discussed within the social scientific literature and ask first whether there is a discernible climate sceptical discourse in Russia. We find that there is very little literature directly on this topic in either English or Russian and we seek to synthesise related literature to fill the gap. Secondly, we consider whether Russian climate scepticism has been shaped by the same factors as in the USA, exploring how scientists, the media, public opinion, the government and business shaped climate scepticism in Russia. Climate scepticism in the USA is understood as a ‘conservative countermovement’ that seeks to react against the perceived gains of the progressive environmental movement, but we argue that this is not an appropriate framework for understanding Russian climate scepticism. Articulated within a less agonistic environment and situated within an authoritarian regime, Russian expressions of climate scepticism balance the environmental, political and economic needs of the regime under the constraints of a strong ‘carbon culture’ and closed public debate.

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Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case

Ashe

Poberezhskaya

2022

Climatic Change

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“…States most impacted by the effects of climate change, including those generated through climate solutions, uncertain that industrialized states will deliver on their climate commitments may alter their own decisions around climate change. If, for example, emerging economies like Brazil and India fear that industrialized states like the United States and Australia will not take reciprocal climate action, they may limit or refuse their own climate action in order to protect their divergent interests and values (Leal‐Arcas, 2013; Rinaldi & Martuscelli, 2016). Such concerns reflect how trust dynamics can shape global climate governance: the prevalent mistrust and distrust among different constellations of actors surrounding their interests and motivations reduce their willingness to cooperate while also generating seemingly insurmountable differences for establishing and making progress toward collective goals (Badrinarayana, 2011).…”

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“…Such concerns reflect how trust dynamics can shape global climate governance: the prevalent mistrust and distrust among different constellations of actors surrounding their interests and motivations reduce their willingness to cooperate while also generating seemingly insurmountable differences for establishing and making progress toward collective goals (Badrinarayana, 2011). This lack of action, in turn, impacts the credibility these different governance actors hold with each other, and with their respective constituents, to act as governors in the climate crisis (Hall & Persson, 2018; Rinaldi & Martuscelli, 2016).…”

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Toward a relational approach in global climate governance: Exploring the role of trust

Suiseeya

Elhard

Paul

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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What role does trust play in global climate governance? For decades, claims of mistrust and distrust have dominated climate change policy arenas: doubts about climate change science and disagreements over rights and responsibilities related to mitigation, adaptation, loss, and damages undermine trust, impeding progress toward effective global climate action. And although frequently invoked in explanations of weak or failed climate action, there is limited research exploring the role of trust as a distinct concept in global climate governance. Here we seek to address this gap by developing a relational framework that focuses attention on how trust dynamics shape cooperation in four types of relationships: reliance, reciprocity, responsibility, and recognition. Applying this framework to the UNFCCC, we consider how efforts like expanded participation impact the relational landscape in global climate governance. We focus in particular on Indigenous Peoples and non‐state actors to demonstrate how the UNFCCC's efforts to address its legitimacy and credibility problems have neither adequately considered trust nor created opportunities to develop the transformative relationships needed for more effective climate governance. We suggest that greater attention to trust can help scholars and practitioners better understand how relational phenomena shape the landscape of governance possibilities. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance

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“…Less work has considered the role of the BRICS in global climate governance (Leal-Arcas, 2013;Br€ utsch and Papa, 2013;Gladun and Ahsan, 2016;Rinaldi and Martuscelli, 2016), and few studies have examined the capacity of the BRICS to shape global climate governance in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris climate agreement (for an exception see Viola and Basso, 2016). There are two important reasons for doing so.…”

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After the Paris Agreement: What Role for the BRICS in Global Climate Governance?

Downie

Williams

2018

Global Policy

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The rising power of the BRICS is now at the centre of debates about the future of global governance. Despite the consensus that the political, economic and strategic differences between the BRICS trump the commonalities, the BRICS have managed a level of cooperation that has exceeded expectations. This has led to inquiries about their influence on several policy domains, especially global finance. However, less attention has been given to the role of the BRICS in global climate governance, especially in the aftermath of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Following the Paris Agreement, and the US' withdrawal, this paper examines the capacity of the BRICS to re‐shape global climate governance. Based on an analysis of the emissions profile of the BRICS, and multilateral and bilateral meetings between BRICS countries since 2015, it argues that while significant obstacles to the BRICS acting as a coalition remain, there are areas that can be identified where cooperation could be scaled up in coming years.

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The BRICS on climate change global governance

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Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case

Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case

Toward a relational approach in global climate governance: Exploring the role of trust

After the Paris Agreement: What Role for the BRICS in Global Climate Governance?

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