Negotiating climate change : a forensic analysis / Aynsley Kellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellow, Aynsley, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Climatic changes.

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985 March 22)--Protocols, etc. (1987 September 15).

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (2015 December 12).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9).

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985 March 22).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2018.

Summary:

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change marked a reset of global climate policy, but was jeopardised by the partisan nature of the debates. In this unique overview, Aynsley Kellow suggests that global policy on climate change should have started with the Paris Agreement, and that almost a quarter of a century has been wasted following the wrong path. Looking critically at the interplay between interests, science, and global norms, Negotiating Climate Change shows how the initial selection of the wrong 'metapolicy' hindered the development of global climate policy. Examining key debates, and the problems which arose from them, Kellow exposes the failings of the Kyoto Process and the subsequent issues raised in the negotiations culminating in the Paris Agreement. Providing analysis of the failings of past decades as well as looking towards the future of climate policy, this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of global environmental politics, environmental governance and international relations, as well as for policy workers in agencies involved in climate policy.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Metapolicy and global climate policy

2. Business interests, energy competition, and climate change

3. Climate science, problem definition and agenda setting

4. Norms in climate negotiations

5. Minilateralism and forum shopping: negotiations and multiple arenas

6. Paris: the end - or a new beginning?

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-821-6