Creating a mutual gains climate regime through universal clean energy services

Moomaw, William R.; Papa, Mihaela

doi:10.1080/14693062.2011.644072

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“…While the commodification is most visible in the Kyoto Protocol's tradable quantified limitation and reduction obligations (QELROs), non-tradable emission targets in principle have the same effect of transforming the hitherto freely available sink capacity of the atmosphere into a managed resource. This understanding is reflected in policy-makers' frequent statements of concern about overly restricting national access to 'carbon space', which is seen as prerequisite for economic wellbeing and development (Moomaw and Papa, 2012).…”

Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Limiting emissions in such a way creates a scarce resource around which a distributional conflict emerges (Hourcade and Shukla, 2013;Moomaw and Papa, 2012). While the commodification is most visible in the Kyoto Protocol's tradable quantified limitation and reduction obligations (QELROs), non-tradable emission targets in principle have the same effect of transforming the hitherto freely available sink capacity of the atmosphere into a managed resource.…”

Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the historical and current focus on emission targets may restrict the ability of policy makers to frame their contributions in narratives that are compatible with national political discourses (Moomaw and Papa, 2012;Sterk and Hermwille, 2014). That is, the focus on emissions impedes achieving shared meaning (signification) among the national and international levels.…”

Section: Multi-dimensional Mitigation Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has led to a situation in which political incentives strongly point in the direction of adopting weak rather than strong commitments/contributions, in order to preserve development space and/or to maximise the volume of sellable emission units (Moomaw and Papa, 2012;Sterk and Hermwille, 2014).…”

Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate change is thus arguably fundamentally a development problem much more than an environmental problem. Industrialised countries will have to fundamentally redevelop their economies and developing countries will have to develop fundamentally different from how industrialised countries have developed (Moomaw and Papa, 2012;.…”

Section: Rules: Structures Of Legitimation and Significationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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UNFCCC before and after Paris – what's necessary for an effective climate regime?

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What can reasonably be expected from the UNFCCC process and the climate conference in Paris 2015? To achieve transformative change, prevailing unsustainable routines embedded in socio-economic systems have to be translated into new and sustainable ones. This article conceptualises the UNFCCC and the associated policy processes as a catalyst for this translation by applying a structurational regime model. This model provides an analytical distinction of rules (norms and shared meaning) and resources (economic resources as well as authoritative and allocative power) and allows to conceptualise agency on various levels including beyond the nation states. The analysis concludes that the UNFCCC's narrow focus on emissions targets, which essentially is a focus on resources, has proven ineffective. In addition, the static division of industrialized and developing countries in the Convention's annexes and the consensus-based decision-making rules have impeded ambitious climate protection. The article concludes that the UNFCCC is much better equipped to provide rules for climate protection activities and should consciously expand this feature to improve its impact. Policy relevanceThe international community is negotiating a new global climate agreement, to be adopted at the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in December 2015 in Paris and to be applicable from 2020. This article analyses the successes and limitations the UN-FCCC has had so far in combating climate change and it develops recommendations how to enhance efforts within and beyond the framework of the Convention. From our analysis we derive two main recommendations for an effective and structurationally balanced treaty: First, multi-dimensional mitigation contributions going beyond emission targets could strongly improve countries' ability to tailor their contributions around national political discourses. Second, the UNFCCC regime should be complemented with another treaty outside of the UNFCCC framework. This 'Alliance of the Ambitious' would allow the pioneers of climate protection to move ahead and enjoy the benefits of co-operation. The dynamics generated through such a club approach could be fed back into the UNFCCC, leading to increased ambition by others in future commitment cycles.

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Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

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Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multi-dimensional Mitigation Contributionsmentioning

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Section: Resources: the Structure Of Dominationmentioning

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Section: Rules: Structures Of Legitimation and Significationmentioning

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A Transformative Perspective on Climate Change and Climate Governance

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Frantzeskaki

2020

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Cultural Diversity and Sustainability Metagovernance

Meuleman¹

2012

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In the 20 years since the United Nations summit on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the world has become more diverse, turbulent, fast and multi-polar. Tensions between old and new forms of politics, science and media, representing the emergence of what has been framed as the knowledge democracy, have brought about new challenges for sustainability governance. However, the existing governance frameworks seem to deny this social complexity and uncertainty. They also favour centralised negotiations and institutions, view governments as exclusive decision makers, and imply hegemony of Western economic, political and cultural principles. This is also reflected in the language of sustainability governance: it is centralist and is referring to monolithic concepts (the economy, the climate, the Earth System) rather than embracing diversity and complexity.This chapter sheds light on the problematic relations between cultural diversity, sustainable development and governance. These three concepts share a normative character, which is always a good predictor of trouble if interaction takes place.It is argued that the implementation deficit of sustainable development can be traced back to three problems: a neglect of the opportunities which cultural diversity offers, an implicit preference for central top-down political solutions, and an underestimation of the 'wickedness' of many sustainability challenges. It is concluded that sustainability governance should be more culturally sensitive, reflexive and dynamic. This requires institutions, instruments, processes, and actor involvement based on compatibility of values and traditions rather than on commonality or integration. It also calls for situationally effective combinations of ideas from hierarchical, network and market governance. This implies an approach beyond traditional forms of governance, towards a culturally sensitive metagovernance for sustainable development, beyond disciplinary scientific research, beyond states and other existing L. Meuleman (*)

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Creating a mutual gains climate regime through universal clean energy services

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

UNFCCC before and after Paris – what's necessary for an effective climate regime?

UNFCCC before and after Paris – what's necessary for an effective climate regime?

A Transformative Perspective on Climate Change and Climate Governance

Cultural Diversity and Sustainability Metagovernance

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