International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral

Kelsey, Nina

doi:10.1162/glep_a_00631

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“…Some literature has begun examining how to weaken obstructionist vested interests (Meckling & Nahm, 2022). With this article, we harness different strands of research to open a research agenda on how reforms could be designed to challenge vested interests and how to set off a 'green spiral' (Kelsey, 2021) whereby actors who support climate action are strengthened. In doing so, we highlight the potentials and challenges of institutional reform aimed at strengthening climate progress.…”

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Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling

Nasiritousi,

Buylova,

Fridahl

et al. 2024

Global Policy

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How can the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) be made more effective? This paper argues that in order to make the UNFCCC fit for purpose, there is a need to identify the specific institutional reforms that can create ripple effects to accelerate climate action across governance levels and relevant organisations. Longstanding calls to reform the UNFCCC have targeted inefficient procedures with the intent to promote effective outcomes and – after entry into force of the Paris Agreement – to transform the UNFCCC towards holding more implementation‐focused deliberations. Despite such calls, UNFCCC reform has been modest, at best. Central to the failure of reform proposals are vested interests with conflicts of interest that seek to obstruct climate action. Without addressing these elephants in the room, reform proposals will make modest contributions to overcoming key challenges. It is due time to start retargeting institutional reform from addressing procedural inefficiencies at the UNFCCC towards addressing vested interests. We propose a new research agenda to understand ways to undermine incumbent actors seeking to preserve business as usual and support new entrants that facilitate climate action through green spiralling. A reform process addressing vested interests could improve both procedural efficiency and implementation.

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Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling

Nasiritousi,

Buylova,

Fridahl

et al. 2024

Global Policy

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“…under pressure from investors). Depending on the circumstances, firms with more environmentally friendly operations may even have an incentive to lobby in favour of stricter standards, as these would give it an edge over competitors, giving rise to a "green spiral" (Kelsey, 2021).…”

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Environmental impacts along food supply chains

2022

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about environmental impacts along food supply chains, looking at the contribution of different stages of the supply chain, the impact of different products, heterogeneity among producers, and the role of international trade. This review shows that most environmental impacts in food supply chains occur through land use change or at the stage of agricultural production. Livestock (especially ruminant livestock) has a higher footprint than plant-based food. However, there is also important heterogeneity among producers, even within the same region. A significant share of total environmental impacts is "embodied" in international trade, although considerably less than half. In terms of evidence gaps, some impacts (e.g. biodiversity, soil carbon) have been less studied, and there are geographic and product blind spots. Moreover, existing evidence is not sufficiently granular. While important evidence gaps thus exist, the overall picture that emerges is one of a rapidly growing evidence base, which can inform innovative supply chain initiatives to reduce impacts. This is one of four papers developing work on addressing evidence gaps on food systems in OECD countries (OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 183 to 186).

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Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

Yang¹

2023

Global Environmental Politics

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Developing countries are growing apart on environmental issues. International environmental negotiations are no longer characterized merely by the North–South conflict. Rising powers have come to divide the Global South and redefine the Common-But-Differentiated Responsibilities principle. This article explains the divergence of China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, one of the first global environmental agreements that differentiates obligation between developing countries. China and India, the world’s two largest hydrofluorocarbon producers, ended decades of collaboration and split the rest of the developing world behind them. I argue that developmental strategy and political institutions shape the preferences and influences of industrial, governmental, and social stakeholders, thereby explaining their negotiation behavior and outcome. This article explains why China moved faster and further than India on negotiations for hydrofluorocarbon regulation. It has important implications for the two rising powers’ implementation of the Kigali Amendment and for their position formulations on other environmental issues.

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International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling

Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling

Environmental impacts along food supply chains

Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

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