The Paris Agreement and climate change negotiations: Small Islands, big players

Ourbak, Timothée; Magnan, Alexandre

doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1247-9

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“…This will be a difficult task as the world has already experienced around 1°C of anthropogenic global warming to date (Haustein et al, ), although recent work has suggested it may still be achievable (Millar et al, ). Much of the impetus for the 1.5°C global warming target came from small island states concerned about sea level rise (Ourbak & Magnan, ). Here we show that the largest beneficiaries of reduced global warming, with respect to limiting perceptible temperature change, are people living in tropical regions.…”

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The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming

King

Harrington

2018

Geophysical Research Letters

175

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The Paris Agreement aims to keep global warming well below 2°C above preindustrial levels with a preferred ambitious 1.5°C target. Developing countries, especially small island nations, pressed for the 1.5°C target to be adopted, but who will suffer the largest changes in climate if we miss this target? Here we show that exceeding the 1.5°C global warming target would lead to the poorest experiencing the greatest local climate changes. Under these circumstances greater support for climate adaptation to prevent poverty growth would be required.

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The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming

King

Harrington

2018

Geophysical Research Letters

175

102

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“…Paragraph 52 of the Paris Agreement states “… Article 8 of the Agreement does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation.” Nonetheless, the Paris Agreement is still “premised on the concept of differentiated responsibilities” (Lees, , p. 61). This relates to the acknowledgment that nations which have disproportionately benefited from fossil fuel‐based economies have a responsibility to help states that already are and/or are likely to face the most severe L&D, which they have contributed very little toward—SIDS being a case in point throughout the literature (Adelman, ; Hoad, ; Ourbak & Magnan, ). Debate surrounding liability and compensation are framed by several key areas including ethics (31%), law (29%), justice (29%), equity (16%), and human rights (16%), which are all well represented.…”

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Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

McNamara

Jackson

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change researchers argue that a residual domain exists beyond the limits of adaptation to prevent deleterious climate change impacts: this has been labeled as "loss and damage." Over the last 8 years, there has been significant growth in loss and damage scholarship thus making it imperative to take stock of what we know already and directions for future research. We undertook a quantitative review of academic publications (n = 122) in the loss and damage field to date and documented study characteristics, thematic areas, trends, gaps, and opportunities. The first publication appeared in 2010 before a significant increase in published research after 2013. Although increasingly diverse over time, loss and damage studies have primarily focused on technical, political, and normative questions. Our analysis suggests the following: that researchers predominately conceptualize loss and damage as "limits to adaptation"; that the literature is more practical (i.e., descriptive, does not challenge underlying presuppositions) than critical (i.e., challenges underlying presuppositions) in orientation; that loss and damage is conceived as both an occurring and future condition; and that economic dimensions of loss and damage are prioritized in studies. Recommended future research directions include empirical and theoretical explorations of the potential for transformational change; understanding what people value and how they can engage with loss and grief; ensuring the perspectives of the most vulnerable groups are included in decision-making; and greater policy-relevant research and critical analyses of loss and damage conceptualizations and the Warsaw International Mechanism.

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“…Concern about climate change impacts, commencing in the late 1980s, has been channelled into long‐term lobbying in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Pacific Island leaders have made consistent arguments at successive UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties (COP) for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, to reduce the risk of sea‐level rise and other climate change impacts (de Agueda Corneloup and Mol, ; Ourbak and Magnan, ). Pacific Island leaders have been instrumental in building a sense of solidarity and alliance between climate‐affected peoples and nations.…”

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Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific

Farbotko

McMichael

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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With the expectation of adverse climate change impacts, some (often majority) Indigenous populations of the Pacific are expressing a preference to remain on Indigenous lands for cultural and spiritual reasons. In some cases, Indigenous people express preparedness to die on traditional territory rather than relocate, representing a new type of agency and resistance to dispossession. This is a prominent politics of place of relevance to emerging debates and decision-making around retreat and relocation. If climate change is experienced by populations as an existential threat to culture, identity and place-based connections, voluntary immobility can be an important adaptation strategy that helps to strengthen cultural and spiritual resilience among those facing the prospect of a lost homeland. This paper argues that voluntary immobility decisions need ethically robust and culturally appropriate policies and practices, particularly when a site is deemed by external experts to be no longer fit for human settlement. National governments, civil society groups, international organisations and donors will need to: engage in culturally meaningful dialogue with communities about relocation and immobility; respect, protect and fulfil the rights of 'immobile' people and those on the move; and confirm that in situ adaptation options have been exhausted.

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The Paris Agreement and climate change negotiations: Small Islands, big players

Abstract: Climate change poses an existential threat to Small

Cited by 133 publications

References 17 publications

The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming

The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming

Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific

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