The Glue That Binds Or The Straw That Broke The Camels Back Exploring The Implications Of Us Reengagement In Global Climate Change Negotiaitions
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Author | : Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
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For many years the roles of the main state players in climate politics were well defined, if not desirable. The United States was the rogue state; the European Union was the vocal champion; the rapidly developing economies were the understandably absent but essential missing links and the small island states and the least developed countries were the indignant victims. Recent global climate negotiations, however, reveal the extent to which political roles and relationships are in flux and a new, more complex political alignment is emerging. Leading up to 2009, the global community had long pressed the United States to re-engage in international climate policy and to implement progressive domestic action on climate change. The United States had been viewed as “the indispensable nation” whose presence or absence from international climate negotiations controlled the ability of the international community to build a meaningful global climate regime. Heeding these calls, and led by President Barack Obama, the United States actively re-engaged in international climate negotiations leading up to, and during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The rapid re-engagement of the United States in international climate politics in 2009, however, failed to offer the panacea needed to facilitate global consensus and action on climate change. Instead, U.S. efforts to renew global climate leadership revealed the extent to which global power is now shared among key nation-states. In this way, negotiations at the Copenhagen Climate Conference began to reveal the parameters of a new political order. The United States, China and India are at the center of that political order, with China increasingly revealing the extent to which it can control global negotiations. Following this realignment, a central question confronting the global community is whether the re-ordering advances efforts to create a global framework for addressing climate change or, in fact, prompts devolution of power to a smaller group of political players. That is, has the United States unwittingly ceded its position as the “indispensable nation” to China and, if so, what are the consequences not only for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process but also for alternative or parallel efforts to structure an effective and equitable global climate change regime. To begin to unpack these questions, Part II of this Article examines the evolution of climate politics from 1997-2010. Part II first considers the value of the popular narrative of global climate change politics, which focuses on singling out political leaders and laggards, before looking individually at the evolving roles of the United States and China in global climate politics. Part II continues by discussing how 2009 turned out to be an eventful year for global climate politics, beginning with great optimism but ultimately ending amongst dissolution and divergence Part III examines, in more detail, the events of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to reveal the extent to which global climate politics have undergone significant reordering since the 1997 negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. Finally, Part IV explores the implications of the emergent political order for future climate change negotiations and argues for the importance of maintaining an emphasis on multilateralism moving forward into a post-Kyoto world.
Author | : Matthew Humphreys |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317047915 |
This book undertakes a critical appraisal of the concept of sustainable development in the European Union. In addition to existing issues of sustainability, it examines the development of a European "general principle" of sustainable development. This original, critical approach examines legal, political, and economic implications of the emergence of the principle and places the impact of such in local, national, intranational, and international contexts. While essentially focusing on the development of the principle, the discussion also includes a normative assessment of current policy and practice, and appraises European efforts in the light of international goals.
Author | : Christina Voigt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2019-04-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108497179 |
Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.
Author | : Association of Christian Schools International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Children of missionaries |
ISBN | : 9781583310090 |
Author | : Timothy O'Riordan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0197265537 |
Tipping points are zones or thresholds of profound changes in natural or social conditions with very considerable and largely unforecastable consequences. Tipping points may be dangerous for societies and economies, especially if the prevailing governing arrangements are not designed either to anticipate them or adapt to their arrival. Tipping points can also be transformational of cultures and behaviours so that societies can learn to adapt and to alter their outlooks and mores in favour of accommodating to more sustainable ways of living. This volume examines scientific, economic and social analyses of tipping points, and the spiritual and creative approaches to identifying and anticipating them. The authors focus on climate change, ice melt, tropical forest drying and alterations in oceanic and atmospheric circulations. They also look closely at various aspects of human use of the planet, especially food production, and at the loss of biodiversity, where alterations to natural cycles may be creating convulsive couplings of tipping points. They survey the various institutional aspects of politics, economics, culture and religion to see why such dangers persist.
Author | : Lorenzo Magnani |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2011-09-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642219721 |
This volume sets out to give a philosophical “applied” account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book’s primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for “moral” reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete moralities. The author’s fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as “coalition enforcement”, “moral bubbles”, “cognitive niches”, “overmoralization”, “military intelligence” and so on, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author’s original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book might help us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically “violent beings”. To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing.
Author | : Soner Cagaptay |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2019-09-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786726343 |
Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it. Erdogan has picked an unorthodox model in the context of recent Turkish history, attempting to cast his country as a stand-alone Middle Eastern power. In doing so Turkey has broken ranks with its traditional Western allies, including the United States and has embraced an imperial-style foreign policy which has aimed to restore Turkey's Ottoman-era reach into the Arabian Middle East and the Balkans. Today, in addition to a domestic crackdown on dissent and journalistic freedoms, driven by Erdogan's style of governance, Turkey faces a hostile world. Ankara has nearly no friends left in the Middle East, and it faces a threat from resurgent historic adversaries: Russia and Iran. Furthermore, Turkey cannot rely on the unconditional support of its traditional Western allies. Can Erdogan deliver Turkey back to safety? What are the risks that lie ahead for him, and his country? How can Turkey truly become a great power, fulfilling a dream shared by many Turks, the sultans, Ataturk, and Erdogan himself?
Author | : Aleksander Paroń |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004441093 |
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in European historiography as aggressors and destroyers whose appearance led to only chaotic decline and economic stagnation. Making use of historical and archaeological sources along with abundant comparative material, Aleksander Paroń offers here a multifaceted and cogent image of the nomads’ relations with neighboring political and cultural communities in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Author | : Selden Rodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : Phil Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139461451 |
Since the publication of its first edition, this textbook has become the definitive student introduction to the subject. As with earlier editions, the seventh edition gives a clear understanding of fundamental legal concepts and their importance within society. In addition, this book addresses the ways in which rules and the structures of law respond to and impact upon changes in economic and political life. The title has been extensively updated and explores recent high profile developments such as the Civil Partnership Act 2005 and the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. This introductory text covers a wide range of topics in a clear, sensible fashion giving full context to each. For this reason An Introduction to Law is ideal for all students of law, be they undergraduate law students, those studying law as part of a mixed degree, or students on social sciences courses which offer law options.