This BioRes’s issue looks at the possible elements that could form part of a new global climate deal, which delegates from nearly 200 nations are currently negotiating at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
This report provides an overview of the development of the negotiations within the UNFCCC since COP 19 in Warsaw. It summarises the key developments in 2014 and provides short overviews for all negotiation areas.
In a new article for the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Daniel Bodansky and Elliot Diringer explore alternative models for a 2015 climate change agreement that can balance national flexibility and international discipline to achieve both broad participation and ambitious commitments.
The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides…
Social-psychology, equity and climate change negotiations / Sonja Klinsky. Cape Town. MAPS Programme, May 2014, 37 p. (research paper ; 18) http://www.mapsprogramme.org/wp-content/uploads/Paper_Social-psychology-equity-and-climate-change-negotiations.pdf This paper addresses the equity debates within climate policy, and draws attention to underlying social-psychological patterns that could shape ideas about what feels fair...
This paper proposes a “policy menu approach” to the UN climate negotiations held in Bonn 10 to 14 March. The negotiations for a new international climate agreement in 2015 seek innovative ways to increase short term and long term mitigation momentum are needed…
The book charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change.
International negotiations have failed to achieve an ambitious outcome to limit climate risks. A Cournot outcome where countries determine their mitigation commitments in the full knowledge of those by others could be an important step. It would avoid a Stackelberg (leader-follower) outcome where one or more major emitters impose a level of climate risk on the rest of the world…
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
