scholarly journals Global climate change policies: from Bali to Copenhagen and beyond

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Boston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
International Climate ◽  
National Framework ◽  
International Climate Change

In early December 2007, the island of Bali in Indonesia hosted the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 3rd Conference of the Parties serving as a Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP3) to the Kyoto Protocol. Attended by almost 11,000 participants and observers from across the globe, Bali marked the climax of a period of unparalleled international climate change summitry (Chasek, 2007). The decisions taken at COP13 have been variously hailed as a ‘major breakthrough’ (Egenhofer, 2007) and as an utter failure – ‘the mother of all no-deals’, to quote Sunita Narain (2008) and ‘even worse than the Kyoto Protocol’ according to George Monbiot (2007)

scholarly journals International climate change negotiation: the role of Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-395
Author(s):  
Marcela Cardoso Guilles Da Conceição ◽  
Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues ◽  
Fernanda Reis Cordeiro ◽  
Fernando Vieira Cesário ◽  
Gracie Verde Selva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
International Negotiation ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Essential Condition ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

The increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere raises the average temperature of the planet, triggering problems that threaten the survival of humans. Protecting the global climate from the effects of climate change is an essential condition for sustaining life. For this reason, governments, scientists, and society are joining forces to propose better solutions that could well-rounded environmentally, social and economic development relationships. International climate change negotiations involve many countries in establishing strategies to mitigate the problem. Therefore, understanding international negotiation processes and how ratified agreements impact a country is of fundamental importance. The purpose of this paper is to systematize information about how climate negotiations have progressed, detailing key moments and results, analyzing the role that Brazil played in the course of these negotiations and the country’s future perspectives.

scholarly journals How news media (de-)legitimize national and international climate politics – A content analysis of newspaper coverage in five countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 518-540
Author(s):  
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw ◽  
Senja Post ◽  
Mike S Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
National Level ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
International Climate

Implementing global climate change policies on the national and sub-national level requires the support of many societal actors. This support depends on the perceived legitimacy of climate policies, which can be sustained by legitimation debates in domestic news media. This article analyses legitimation statements on climate politics in newspapers of five countries for three Conferences of the Parties in 2004, 2009 and 2014 ( n = 369 legitimation statements). According to our data, it is mainly the legitimacy of international climate policies (instead of national ones) which is evaluated in national fora, and it is usually portrayed negatively. However, there is a noticeable shift in the arguments used over our 10-year period of analysis, moving from efficiency as the dominating evaluation criterion to questions of fairness in the distribution of costs and gains.

Geoengineering: Ethical Considerations and Global Governance

2013 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying CHEN ◽  
Zhe LIU
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
International Community ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Plan B ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Ethical View

Human society is facing great challenges to address global climate change. How to move the international climate process forward is still a serious problem for politicians. Geoengineering's, so called Plan B to cope with climate change has attracted attentions of the international community with a lot of debate on its impact, risks from an ethical view as well as global governance at the level. In this paper, we focus on some important issues of geoengineering including the definition, characteristics, ethics and global governance, etc. and then put forward some suggestions for China's considerations.

Climate change, social policy, and global governance

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Gough
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
The Relationship

This paper considers the challenge to global social policy posed by global climate change. It sets side by side global social policies and global climate change policies, and surveys the governance of each. The first part summarises global social policy in recent years, distinguishing (1) the policies and practices pursued in the global arena, and (2) the structures of global governance and the role of significant global actors. The second part repeats this at a greater length for global climate change. The third part then considers the relationship between these two sets of policies/practices and governance structures, in particular the potential conflicts between the pursuit of social justice and environmental sustainability. It identifies two possible responses – compensation and co-benefits – and maps these onto current global actors, before concluding with a radical vision of eco-social policy.

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