Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss &amp; damage debate

Calliari, Elisa; Serdeczny, Olivia; Vanhala, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102133

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“…However, Wapner (2014) states that a third dimensionclimate suffering-is becoming increasingly familiar. The concept of climate suffering links closely to the issue of 'loss and damage from climate change', which is increasingly important in the climate negotiations and is now considered the third pillar-alongside mitigation and adaptation-of climate policy (Broberg and Martinez Romera 2020;Calliari et al 2020).…”

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Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective

Ajani

Geest

2021

Sustain Sci

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Pakistan is home to a wide range of geographical landscapes, each of which faces different climate change impacts and challenges. This article presents findings from a National Geographic Society funded project, which employed a people-centered, narratives-based approach to study climate impacts and adaptation strategies of people in 19 rural study sites in four provinces of Pakistan (N = 108). The study looked at six climate-related stressors—changes in weather patterns, floods, Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, drought, heat waves, and sea-level rise—in the coastal areas of Sindh, the desert of Thar, the plains of Punjab, and the mountains of Hunza, Gilgit, and Chitral. Speaking to people at these frontlines of climate change revealed much about climate suffering and trauma. Not only is the suffering induced by losses and damages to property and livelihood, but climate impacts also take a heavy toll on people’s psycho-social wellbeing, particularly when they are displaced from their homes. The findings further demonstrate that people try to adapt in various ways, for instance by altering their agricultural practices, but they face severe barriers to effective adaptation action. Understanding people’s perceptions of climate change and incorporating their recommendations in adaptation planning can help policy-makers develop a more participatory, inclusive, and holistic climate resilience framework for the future.

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Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective

Ajani

Geest

2021

Sustain Sci

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“…Recent organisational and trans-organisational ethnographies have revealed the internal logics and everyday rationalities of institutional mechanisms (MacDonald 2015;Thaler 2021). At the international level ethnographic approaches are deployed to make visible and thereby 'make sense' of politics and power in climate negotiations, whether through CEE involving large teams researching at many sites, building on Marcus' (1995) 'multi-site' ethnography (Corson et al 2014) or studies undertaken by fewer researchers (Calliari et al 2020).…”

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“…By hanging out, researchers can capture how people contextualize their ideas in the before and after moments of formal interviews or by 'following' research participants in their daily work (Billo and Mountz 2015). In international climate governance research, hanging out has often involved following people from the formal negotiation room to corridors and attending 'cocktail parties' (Calliari et al 2020;…”

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Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back

Vanhala¹,

Johansson²,

Butler³

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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What can an “ethnographic sensibility” contribute to research on climate change governance? With its emphasis on meaning making and understanding what may lie beneath more obvious interactions and processes, ethnographic methodologies, particularly collaborative event ethnography, are increasingly deployed to address complex questions and achieve conceptual leverage on issues related to climate governance. Drawing on literature in climate anthropology, material geography, and political ethnography, and with examples from our own fieldwork experiences, we devise a heuristic typology underpinned by an ethnographic sensibility to help guide the fieldwork phase of a research project. Building on the well-established practice of hanging out, we introduce hanging around, which attends to spatiality and matter; hanging in, which addresses issues of access and trust; and hanging back to guide the practice of reflexivity. We articulate what fieldwork with an ethnographic sensibility entails and discuss its potential and implications for climate governance research.

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“…Similarly, expect the issues of Loss and Damage and Climate Justice to be central to the success, perceived and real, of the negotiations. Many vulnerable countries hope that agreements can be secured without the US and EU blocking them (Calliari et al, 2020).…”

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A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations

Maslin

Lang

2022

Preprint

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The last 30 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiation to deal with climate change. During the same 30 years, humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, been progress and some notable successes. In 2015 at COP21, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement stating that they would limit global temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and would pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This was followed up at COP26 in Glasgow with many countries pledging to go net zero emissions by the middle of the century. But currently these pledges, if fulfilled, will only limit global average temperature to 2.4˚C to 2.8˚C. This article reviews the history of international climate change negotiations and examines what the key objectives are for future COP meetings.

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Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate

Cited by 51 publications

References 37 publications

Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective

Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective

Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back

A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations

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