Changing the game: the Paris Agreement and the role of scientific communities

Ourbak, Timothée; Tubiana, Laurence

doi:10.1080/14693062.2017.1348331

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“…Taken together, there are conflicting views of the extent to which the IPCC's efforts to create credible assessments should be deemed successful [12,[39][40][41]. Nevertheless, it has been shown that the IPCC has played an important role leading up to many meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), not least in the preparations for the 21st COP meeting in Paris in December 2015 [42].…”

Section: The Ipcc and Climategatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The studies showed how Climategate contributed to the continuing polarization between climate science on one hand and climate skeptics on the other, and how Climategate resulted in the IPCC suffering a loss of trust as their credibility as knowledge producers was questioned (e.g., [14,17,22,48,49]). Despite this crisis and the polarizing tendencies, the IPCC has once again strengthened its position as a knowledge producer and has continued to play an important role as an indirect contributor to policy processes and decision making, such as the Paris Agreement in 2015 (e.g., [42]).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

Gustafsson

2019

Sustainability

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To create a societal change towards a sustainable future, constructive relations between science and policy are of major importance. Boundary organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have come to play an important role in establishing such constructive relations. This study contributes to the development of empirically informed knowledge on the challenge of balancing different expectations for how the science–policy relation is to be constructed to create trustworthy knowledge and policy decisions, i.e., when to be what and to whom. This study revisits Climategate and uses the public debate on the IPCC’s credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance that followed Climategate as an analytical window to explore how the IPCC balanced the science–policy relation in a trustworthy manner. The analysis is based on a document study. The study shows how different expectations on the science–policy relation coexist, and how these risks create a loss of trust, credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance. Thus, for boundary organizations to have a chance to impact policy discussions, reflexivity about the present epistemic ideals and expectations on knowledge production is of major importance, and must be reflected in an organizational flexibility that is open to different strategies on how to connect science and policy in relation to different actors and phases of the knowledge production process.

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Section: The Ipcc and Climategatementioning

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Section: The Ipcc and Climategatementioning

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Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

Gustafsson

2019

Sustainability

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“…It will thus be key in the future for AOSIS members to also pay attention to ensure that discourses and practices are mutually consistent, reducing the risk of destroying their credibility and undermining their diplomatic efforts of recent decades. An opportunity will be, for example, the development and implementation of their long-term low carbon strategies, one of the keys of the Paris Agreement (Ourbak and Tubiana 2017).…”

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

2017

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“…The fact that adaptation is so complex-being cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional with political, economic, environmental and social dimensions-has led to a great amount of work, but without proposing a common framework [5]. There is no single, universal metric that fits the reality of adaptation as there is for mitigation [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The parties affirmed that "adaptation must be addressed with the same priority as mitigation" [1,2]. Under this framework, the COP invited "all Parties to enhance action on adaptation" [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] by "planning, prioritizing and implementing adaptation actions, including projects and programs" [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. The Paris agreement (COP21) provided numerous indications and details about adaptation, mainly in Article 7 [2].…”

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Adaptation Strategies for Water Resources: Criteria for Research

Salerno

2017

Water

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Abstract:The Paris Agreement presents new fields of research related to the adaptation strategies to climate change. A challenge for future research consists in developing context-specific guidelines to support adaptation. This Special Issue on "Adaptation strategy to climate change for water resources" is born in this context. It contains 15 scientific studies facing a diversity of issues inherent to the adaptation strategies for water resources. This editorial analyses how the authors of this collection of papers decided to develop and present their research in order to identify criteria to contribute defining, in a near future, standardized approaches and practices for adaptation studies. Papers have been categorized in two major fields: "Studies for the development of adaptation scenarios" and "Studies for the development of adaptation solutions". Papers belonging to both categories are generally found missing to treat the 'uncertainty' issues arising and the implementation of the proposed adaptation strategies. Studies investigating future adaptation scenarios are generally found to be unbalanced in favor of the assessment of future impacts on water resources and less towards the provision of adaptation scenarios. When these studies do not provide elements to manage the specific uncertainty related to the proposed adaptation solutions, at least exploring the uncertainty related to the climatic and impact scenarios is strongly recommended. Studies providing methodological and/or procedural examinations on adaptation solutions are recommended to suitably report the climatic, environmental, and social context for which the action has been developed. A reduction of uncertainty and an easier implementation of proposed measures could be induced from this.

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Changing the game: the Paris Agreement and the role of scientific communities

Cited by 47 publications

References 18 publications

Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

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

Adaptation Strategies for Water Resources: Criteria for Research

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