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In Quest of a Shared Planet - Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Hardcover)
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In Quest of a Shared Planet - Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Hardcover)
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Based on the author's eight years of fieldwork with the United
Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared
Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective
on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement,
anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing
global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took
nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her
detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding
of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her
to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this
slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it.
With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws
out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within
the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within
country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating
tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of
the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or
is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of
deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had
committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving
between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN
system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions
into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action,
loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries
attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we
understand the Global South's pursuit of loss and damage not only
as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the
Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure
that future. With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of
doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN
that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of
confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts
of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which
have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the
urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed
for meaningful and sustainable climate action. Deeply insightful
and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call
to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth
have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to
understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it
(for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique
it-with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable
alternatives. In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from
the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access
basis.
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