The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue

Aykut, Stefan Cihan; Maertens, Lucile

doi:10.1057/s41311-021-00325-0

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“…The actors that are coming to be involved in the governing of urban climate change are now working in multiple and overlapping configurations linked through shared frames about natureas-an-urban-climate solution. Scholars have pointed to the "climatization of global politics" where "climate change is increasingly becoming the frame of reference for the mediation and hierarchization of other global issues" (Aykut and Maertens 2021). Our paper shows that the interaction between frames related to cities and nature and those related to climate governance is leading to an expansion in the boundaries of what climate governance is, in turn shifting what it means to govern the climate in practice.…”

Section: Urban Transnational Governance Is An Important Part Of An Em...mentioning

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Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change

Tozer¹,

Bulkeley²,

Xie³

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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Multiple visions for how urbanism can respond to the climate crisis and foster sustainability have emerged on the international agenda, including the ecocity, low-carbon city, smart city, and resilient city. These competing visions have been joined by one deploying “nature-based solutions.” We examine how nature-based solutions are emerging as a linchpin holding together the nature and climate agendas and what this means for where and by whom nature-based solutions are forming part of transnational urban governance. We argue that this field is animated by four frames connecting urban nature and climate: nature for resilience, nature for mitigation, the integrated benefits of nature, and nature first. Diverse actors, from conservation organizations to design firms to transnational municipal networks, draw on these frames and adopt new governance arrangements such that what it means to govern climate in the city is shifting. How this emerging nature–climate governance complex is structured will generate new momentum for governing urban nature over the coming decade.

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Section: Urban Transnational Governance Is An Important Part Of An Em...mentioning

confidence: 80%

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change

Tozer¹,

Bulkeley²,

Xie³

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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“…They are thus sites where the global is produced and enacted, and where local and national concerns are brought into the context of UN governance agendas. One way this has been captured is through the notion of climatisation, which denotes a specific form of synchronisation of discourses, agendas and practices that occurs at COPs, but also extends beyond the conference spaces (Aykut & Maertens, 2021). The global nonetheless takes on a specific shape and appearance at each UN summit, climate COP or biodiversity meeting.…”

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Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance

Aykut,

Rödder,

Braun

2024

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Environmental mega conferences have become the format of choice in environmental governance. Conferences of the Parties (COPs) under the climate change and biodiversity conventions in particular attract global media attention and an ever-growing number of increasingly diverse actors, including scholars of global environmental politics. They are arenas for interstate negotiation, but also temporary interfaces that constitute and represent world society, and they focalise global struggles over just and sustainable futures. Collaborative event ethnography (CEE) as a research methodology emerged as a response to these developments. This volume retraces its genealogy, explains its conceptual and methodological foundations and presents insights into its practice. It is meant as an introduction for students, an overview for curious newcomers to the field, and an invitation for experienced researchers wishing to experiment with a new method. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…Marie Hrabanski's work, which draws on that of Aykut, also explores the process whereby agriculture has been put on the agenda in climate negotiations over the last 20 years, as well as the discursive and symbolic transformations that enabled this climatization of the theme of agriculture, particularly within the framework of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) (Hrabanski, 2020;Hrabanski & Le Coq, 2022). 2 Moreover, the concept of climatization has been extended to the analysis of other types of arenas further removed from climate negotiations, particularly in the special issue edited by Stefan Aykut and Maertens (2021), which investigates the reframing processes at play in certain sectors, such as the military and the defence industry, and in certain institutions (United Nations Security Council) and transnational social movements.…”

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Greening, climatizing, and decarbonizing: an inquiry into the transformation of productive sectors and activities

Granjou,

Banos,

Le Berre

et al. 2024

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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The new post-COP21 climate regime is ushering in a range of reorientations and transformations of productive activities and economic sectors, based on their place in the global carbon cycle and carbon flows. This introductory article to the special issue on “The Politics of Decarbonization” explores how a focus on the promises of decarbonization observed in various productive sectors can contribute to our understanding of the current transformations of these sectors, their practices, and their production models in the face of climate change. We begin by (I) situating the special issue’s project in relation to the works on greening and ecological modernization published since the 1990s and particularly in relation to the critique of climate capitalism, so as to emphasize the continuities as well as the specificities that a focus on decarbonization policies entails. We then outline (II) the aims of the special issue in relation to the recent literature on climatization: far from seeking to standardize the treatment of the climate issue within a specific social science discipline, we feel it is important to contribute to a multidisciplinary and critical approach to the revival of productivism and the depoliticization of change often associated with decarbonization policies. This issue develops a range of perspectives anchored in different social science fields and disciplines, particularly looking at the forestry, energy, mining, agriculture, research, and bio-economy sectors.

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The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue

Cited by 26 publications

References 52 publications

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change

Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance

Greening, climatizing, and decarbonizing: an inquiry into the transformation of productive sectors and activities

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