The UN climate change negotiations and the role of the United States: assessing American leadership from Copenhagen to Paris

Parker, Charles F.; Karlsson, Christer

doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1442388

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“…How then should we understand the focus of articles on the COP15? The starting point is the coverage of the negotiations to explore an integrated agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol (Bodansky, 2010;Parker & Karlsson, 2018). Much more important than the Copenhagen Accord was how the South African print media reported on the agreements of participants of the COP15 -they maintained it was possible to decrease global temperature to less than 2 o C.…”

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“…South Africa led the international community in the adoption of a roadmap, the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. The roadmap was regarded as a tool to aid the establishment of a new legally binding protocol, and playing a vital role in the transition towards achieving emissions reduction targets beyond 2020 (Chan, Falkner, Goldberg, & van Asselt, 2018;Parker & Karlsson, 2018). Therefore, 2009 and 2011 were chosen because of the key role executed by South Africa during the focusing events.…”

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“…It was perceived as a legal force agreement to reduce atmospheric concentration of major greenhouse gases. This is particularly important in climate negotiations for one reason -the creation of mechanisms for emissions trading and emission reduction projects (Parker & Karlsson, 2018). A number of studies demonstrated an increase in the coverage of climate change (Sampei & Aoyagi-Usui, 2009).…”

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Content Analysis of South African Sunday Newspaper Coverage of the Durban and Copenhagen Climate Change Conferences

Mulaudzi

Kioko²

2020

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Since the first United Nations climate change conference in 1995, newspapers have been vital in increasing coverage of climate change. Amidst growing number of events around climate change, the influence of international climate change conferences in newspaper coverage of climate change has not been fully interrogated in post-apartheid South Africa. This study aims to discover how three major South African Sunday broadsheet newspapers represented the Copenhagen conference (COP15) in 2009 and the Durban conference (COP17) in 2011. It used a national sample for the years 2009 and 2011, covering the City Press, The Sunday Independent and Sunday Times. The study carried out quantitative analysis of 58 articles published in the three leading Sunday newspapers between 01 January and 31 December. The direct involvement of South Africa on the Copenhagen and Durban climate change negotiations had an influence in the level of newspaper coverage. The frequency of articles published per month increased in November and December for all the years of interest. The dominantly reported main topics associated with COP are greenhouse gas emissions and the Kyoto Protocol. Both COP15 and COP17 were discussed frequently at a local level - domestic geographical scope. Overall, the article identified that South African print media is not consistent in the representation of COP. In order to better the reporting of international climate talks, print media has to be actively involved in integrative and collaborative engagement with COP relevant stakeholders.

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Content Analysis of South African Sunday Newspaper Coverage of the Durban and Copenhagen Climate Change Conferences

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Kioko²

2020

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“…This opposition has remained stable despite a number of significant domestic and international developments that have created an entirely new political context for climate action over the last two decades. First, while global emissions keep increasing, China has overtaken the United States as the largest annual emitter of GHG, redistributing global leadership expectations (Parker and Karlsson 2018). Second, driven by technological development and favorable policy-making elsewhere in the world, global energy markets have shifted in favor of renewables with rapidly declining costs for solar and wind power.…”

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The Paris Agreement on Climate Change—Made in USA?

Milkoreit¹

2019

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The 2015 Paris Agreement established a new logic for international climate governance: the pledge-and-review system. In 2009, the same idea had been proposed in the Copenhagen Accord, but was then forcefully rejected by the negotiation community. Explaining this turnaround, I analyze the role of the United States in the international climate negotiations, using Putnam’s two-level game framework and Snidal’s k-group theory. U.S. domestic politics imposed significant constraints on the terms of the Paris Agreement, contributing to the emergence of the new treaty architecture. Until 2015, U.S. negotiators were either unable or unwilling to bring the demands of political actors at the domestic and international levels in alignment. President Obama achieved this alignment in 2015 by creating international support for a treaty without legally binding obligations that could circumvent a Congressional ratification barrier. The latter required a surprising move: the proactive engagement of China despite the structural context of hegemonic transition.

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“…The United States offered to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 17% below the 2005 levels by 2020 at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009. Then, Under Paris agreement in 2015, the United States targeted to reduce greenhouse gases by 26%-28% below 2005 levels by 2025 (Parker et al, 2018). The construction industry is regarded as one of the most dynamic and ever changing sectors in world's economy.…”

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A hybrid fuzzy-optimization method for modeling construction emissions

Marzouk¹,

Abdelakder²

2020

10.5267/j.dsl

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Construction emissions have become a major concern that has risen extensively in the last few decades. This paper introduces a building information modeling (BIM)-based model to evaluate the environmental and economic consequences of different project alternatives. The model calculates direct, indirect emissions and primary energy for the overall project life cycle. A hybrid fuzzy multi-objective non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) problem is designed to model the uncertainties associated with the quantification of the judging attributes, and consequently to find the most sustainable materials by minimizing the objective functions; project duration, project life cycle cost, project overall emissions and total project primary energy. Finally, TOPSIS is applied to select the most sustainable material for each construction component among the set of Pareto optimal solutions. A case study of an academic building in Saudi Arabia is presented in order to exemplify the practical features of the proposed model.

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The UN climate change negotiations and the role of the United States: assessing American leadership from Copenhagen to Paris

Cited by 61 publications

References 31 publications

Content Analysis of South African Sunday Newspaper Coverage of the Durban and Copenhagen Climate Change Conferences

Content Analysis of South African Sunday Newspaper Coverage of the Durban and Copenhagen Climate Change Conferences

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change—Made in USA?

A hybrid fuzzy-optimization method for modeling construction emissions

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