Introduction to International Climate

Based in a critical examination of normative principles expressed in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it considers how conceptions and principles of justice can guide international burden-sharing approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and applies these to controversies within international climate politics.

HIGHLIGHTS The role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is one of the most contested concepts in international climate policy.

In the second part, the rationale and methodologies for reconfiguring international climate governance are discussed in more detail.

In the second part, the rationale and methodologies for reconfiguring international climate governance are discussed in more detail.

This session will explore the new interdisciplinary research agenda that will be needed to underpin and help deliver forest expansion and improved tree health, management and protection as key international climate policy objectives.

The absence of a legally binding international instrument specifically protecting the human rights of older persons and minimal references to older persons in key international climate instruments attest to the lack of attention to and visibility of older persons in national and international law.

The global energy system has a long way to go to meet international climate goals, and significant investment in renewable energy is required to accelerate the energy transition (IRENA, 2016, 2019).

To respond to the finite availability and to meet international climate goals, a change to a renewable energy and raw material basis is inevitable and represents a highly complex task.

The extant economic and strategic interest-based expla- nations do not sufficiently explain some key anomalies in India’s international climate policy and have justified such contradictions in India’s diplomatic dis- course as realpolitik or pragmatic diplomacy.

In the context of international climate policy, our findings indicate that individual commitments (as negotiated in the Paris Agreement) and complex common commitments (as negotiated in the Kyoto Protocol) tend to have only limited success in promoting cooperation.

Emissions trading schemes (ETSs) have been a central component of international climate change policies, as a carbon pricing tool to achieve emissions reduction targets.

Yet their underlying narratives seriously challenge several core assumptions of national and international climate change adaptation policies, rooted in ecological modernization, technocentrism and neoliberalism.

The results suggest that environmental policy stringency and oil prices are effective drivers of environment-related technology innovation, and that commitment to international climate agreements also spurs green innovation.

1 maps the political problem of climate change in broad terms, beginning at the level of the individual and moving to development of and compliance with an international climate agreement.

In the second part, the rationale and methodologies for reconfiguring international climate governance are discussed in more detail.

By studying and interpreting the guiding principles of President Xi Jinping’s important speeches at the Leaders Summit on Climate and the video summit between China, France and Germany, this paper goes over the basic thinking of China’s participation in international climate governance and the Chinese approach to tackling global climate change, and sums up China’s achievements in the fields such as transition to green and low-carbon development, energy structure adjustment, greenhouse gases control, the construction of national carbon market, as well as its contribution to tackling global climate change.

These have largely been developed under short-term funding streams and, as a consequence do not currently deliver the robust, near real time, sustainable estimate of ocean C uptake that we believe is necessary to support international climate negotiations and the development of adaptation/mitigation strategies.

The results call for greater 20 participation of religious institutions in the international climate negotiations in order for society 21 to address the planetary emergency of climate change.

To accomplish the national and international climate goals, building renovation and optimisation of their energy and resource efficiency are essential.

Offshore geological carbon storage (GCS) is a rapidly developing technology essential for meeting international climate goals.

What are the implications of different perceptions of justice for the emission reduction policies of the three major polluting countries, the United States, China and India? And how do they shape the development of the international climate regime? Based on an independently developed analytical framework, this theory-driven comparative study is one of the first to examine international and national negotiating positions according to different dimensions of climate justice.

Global climate governance is also no longer restricted to multilateral negotiations under the UN Climate Convention: it increasingly extends beyond the international climate regime to climatize other areas of global politics.

An additional sustainable development package, including international climate finance, progressive redistribution of carbon pricing revenues, sufficient and healthy nutrition and improved access to modern energy, enables a more comprehensive sustainable development pathway.

In the context of international climate finance, the focus has been on mobilizing private finance for adaptation and in addressing barriers that prevent investments from materializing.

Based in a critical examination of normative principles expressed in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it considers how conceptions and principles of justice can guide international burden-sharing approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and applies these to controversies within international climate politics.

This paper identifies complementary and conflictual dynamics between industrial policy and environmental policy in both domestic and international climate politics.

Scientists and security professionals alike reaffirm what we are witnessing with our own eyes: The earth is warming at a rapid rate; climate change affects international peace and security in complex ways; and the window for international climate action is slamming shut.

Thus, we assert some of the main features of traditional political approach to climate change include: an emphasis on costs and the impact of measures to address climate change in the American economy and its economic growth; the questioning of climate science as insufficient to justify the costs of the action; the questioning of the differentiation between developed and developing countries as a valid argument for the US to take the lead in international climate action; the resistance to assume mitigation commitments that collide with the principle * Este artículo fue realizado en el contexto de una estancia de investigación en el Georgetown Climate Center, apoyada por el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de Argentina y la Comisión Fulbright.

President Biden, as pledged during the election, is seeking to regain leadership in international climate cooperation as well as promoting net- zero emissions and energy transition in the United States.

Therefore, a better understanding of the obstacles and opportunities that the interactions between domestic and international policy pose for the design of successful international climate cooperation is of utmost importance.

The important insight offered in this short article is that a fundamental difference exists between international climate law and domestic climate law that goes beyond the difference in prescriptive and incentivizing law and has to do with the logic of the problem of climate change, viz.

The paper also contains an overview of reactions to the Paris Agreement by analysts and experts in international climate law.

Determining international climate mitigation response strategies is a complex task.

ABSTRACT Strong climate institutional governance is necessary for countries to meet their international climate mitigation commitments.

This paper provides insights into the implications of a global coal phaseout in the power generation sector across different regions under international climate targets.

This threatens the achievement of international climate targets and points to the need for concerted international action aimed at the phase-out of fossil energy resources.

<p>The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) is a major international climate modelling initiative.

It achieves this through an analysis of the composition of the international climate modelling basis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), viewed from the perspective of the Brazilian Earth System Model (BESM) – the scientific project which placed a Latin American country for the first time inside the global modelling bases of the IPCC.

This chapter presents the state of art of gender considerations in international climate agenda, and India’s national policies, projects and local initiatives.

The European Union (EU) and its member states are among the few global actors remaining with the means and determination to follow up on supporting the international climate agenda.

Together with improved governance, such actions will be crucial for Brazil to reduce pressure on standing forests; strengthen Indigenous land rights; and design effective climate mitigation strategies needed to achieve its national and international climate commitments.

Pacific Island Countries are most vulnerable to the disastrous impacts of climate change; they also, however, manifest some of the most ambitious international climate commitments.

This paper examines how climate policies in these two arenas are related and to what extent domestic and international climate ambitions are complementary or disparate.

The panel will focus on the role of carbon markets amidst increasing international climate ambition and cooperation, touching upon integration, interdependence, arbitrage and carbon leakage aspects.

The study includes more than 147 thousand cases with diverse combinations of building characteristics and all international climate zones.

The purpose of this study was to provide a guideline for the selection of technologies suitable for ASHRAE international climate zones when designing high-performance buildings.

It is revealed that a precise alignment of the expansion of renewable energies with international climate protection targets would strongly mechanise rural areas and significantly transform their land use patterns.

The potential spatio-temporal patterns of renewable energies, which take into account international climate protection strategies, were neither analysed nor exactly visualised in their landscape complexity.

It was found that Turkey has been demanding to be recognized as a developing country in the international climate instruments.

The absence of a legally binding international instrument specifically protecting the human rights of older persons and minimal references to older persons in key international climate instruments attest to the lack of attention to and visibility of older persons in national and international law.