The role of the G20 in governing the climate change regime

Kim, Joy Aeree; Chung, Suh-Yong

doi:10.1007/s10784-012-9173-2

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“…Despite the G20's lack of success in forcefully advancing climate negotiations in the face of these differences, the G20 has worked on policies and ideas related to financing climate change mitigation since its formation as a leader's forum in 2009 (Tienhaara, ), and in ongoing dialogue to phase out member states’ fossil fuel subsidies (Kim and Chung, , p. 369–70). However, while fossil fuel subsidies is an extremely complicated and sensitive issue for some member states of the G20, it is again the case that the rhetoric has not been matched with considerable action.…”

Section: The G System and The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One additional element of the G20 that holds some promise with regards to climate change is that the G20 has increasingly become a forum for ‘engaging wider shareholders’ evident in efforts by world leaders to engage with business leaders about climate change in 2010 (Kim and Chung, , p. 371). This process of engagement has been expanded beyond business in the form of formalised G20 outreach processes.…”

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“…The G20 is significant in this regard because it includes the big carbon emitters in terms of the developed states ‘most capable’ to reduce emissions (Cooper and Thakur, ; Eckersley, ), and also includes emerging economic states like China and India as well as a range of economically significant countries from around the world. This avoids the often unproductive division between developing and developed states (Eckersley, ; Kim and Chung, ). However, while a smaller but more diverse membership makes the G20 an important coordinating forum in global governance, there are questions as to whether non‐member states are willing to follow the G20 with regards to climate action (Eckersley, , p. 33–4), as it does not include the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.…”

Section: The Potential Of the G20mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The G20 and Climate Change: The Transnational Contribution of Global Summitry

Slaughter

2017

Global Policy

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This article examines the prospective role of the G20 (Group of Twenty) in contributing to current efforts to address climate change. This article contends that the G20 has the potential to be a site of policy coordination of economically significant states and transnational policy actors which could support the implementation of the Paris Agreement reached at the 21st conference of the parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015. While this article demonstrates that the G20 and its predecessors have considered the topic of climate change without great success, it articulates the ways that recent developments within the operation of the G20 offers new prospects for addressing this crucial policy issue. These prospects rest primarily upon seeing the G20 as a form of global summitry which is not only an international forum but also a transnational framework of policy makers which offer the possibility that G20 deliberations can be more open to a wider variety of perspectives and more effectively engage with transnational efforts to address climate change.

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The G20 and Climate Change: The Transnational Contribution of Global Summitry

Slaughter

2017

Global Policy

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“…Yet, the UNFCCC has not been successful in setting the world on a path to meet the 2 degree target 1 . Meanwhile, other forums, such as the G20 and subnational forums, have increasingly become sites of climate change initiatives [2][3][4][5][6] . There has, however, to date been no systematic evaluation of what forums climate change policy-makers and practitioners perceive to be needed in order to effectively tackle climate change.…”

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Views on alternative forums for effectively tackling climate change

Hjerpe¹,

Nasiritousi²

2015

Nature Climate change

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First paragraph:This year (2015) marks the 21st formal anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and in December a new climate treaty is expected to be reached. Yet, the UNFCCC has not been successful in setting the world on a path to meet the 2 degree target 1 . Meanwhile, other forums, such as the G20 and subnational forums, have increasingly become sites of climate change initiatives [2][3][4][5][6] . There has, however, to date been no systematic evaluation of what forums climate change policy-makers and practitioners perceive to be needed in order to effectively tackle climate change. Drawing on survey data from two recent UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), we show that there exists an overall preference for state-led, multilateral forums. However, preferences starkly diverge between respondents from different geographical regions and no clear contender to the UNFCCC emerges. Our results highlight difficulties in coordinating global climate policy in a highly fragmented governance landscape.International efforts to tackle the challenges posed by climate change have in the past two decades centered on multilateral negotiations under the UNFCCC. Several scholars note however that the international negotiations under the UNFCCC have produced diminishing returns over time 7 . This has generated discussions about whether multilateralism should be abandoned in favor of minilateralism 8 , along with suggestions to shift the negotiations to other smaller and more flexible forums 9

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“…Resource governance has been the subject of considerable attention over the last number of years, leading to initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) or the Natural Resource Charter (NRC) (Carbonnier, ). In addition, a key element of national energy policies, like energy subsidies, has been addressed by the G20 (Kim and Chung, ; Lesage and Van de Graaf, ).…”

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Fragmented Energy Governance and the Provision of Global Public Goods

Escribano¹

2015

Global Policy

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This article analyses global energy governance from an international political economy and global public goods (GPG) perspective. It first describes the fragmentation that characterises energy governance and its current trend towards an increasingly inter‐polar and polycentric pattern. Then, it shows how the myriad of dedicated international energy regimes conform to an energy regime complex that provides a diverse set of GPG rather than a single international energy regime. Then, global energy governance is analysed from a global public good angle, (1) categorizing the different institutional energy‐related arrangements according to the public good they intend to provide; and (2) highlighting that the supply of such institutional arrangements is greatly influenced by the different provision technologies that are applied to the different energy‐related global public goods.

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The role of the G20 in governing the climate change regime

Cited by 44 publications

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The G20 and Climate Change: The Transnational Contribution of Global Summitry

The G20 and Climate Change: The Transnational Contribution of Global Summitry

Views on alternative forums for effectively tackling climate change

Fragmented Energy Governance and the Provision of Global Public Goods

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