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The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a
new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational
job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off,
uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past
decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change.
As an alternative, this book presents a framework on how to build
effective and sustainable capacity systems to meaningfully tackle
this long-term problem. Such a reframing of capacity building
itself requires means of implementation. The authors combine their
decades-long experiences in climate negotiations, developing
climate solutions, climate activism and peer-reviewed research to
chart a realistic roadmap for the implementation of this
alternative framework for capacity building. As a result, this book
convincingly makes the case that universities, as the highest and
sustainable seats of learning and research in the developing
countries, should be the central hub of capacity building there.
This will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and
policy-makers in the areas of climate change and environmental
studies.
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved. The authors show that conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one struggle changes policy, trains political actors, activists, and industry representatives, and can have a significant effect on all future struggles.
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a
new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational
job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off,
uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past
decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change.
As an alternative, this book presents a framework on how to build
effective and sustainable capacity systems to meaningfully tackle
this long-term problem. Such a reframing of capacity building
itself requires means of implementation. The authors combine their
decades-long experiences in climate negotiations, developing
climate solutions, climate activism and peer-reviewed research to
chart a realistic roadmap for the implementation of this
alternative framework for capacity building. As a result, this book
convincingly makes the case that universities, as the highest and
sustainable seats of learning and research in the developing
countries, should be the central hub of capacity building there.
This will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and
policy-makers in the areas of climate change and environmental
studies.
How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators
on addressing climate change-and what threatens their leadership.
Latin American countries have increased their influence at the
United Nations climate change negotiations and offered potential
solutions on coping with global warming. But in the face of
competing priorities, sometimes these climate policies are
jettisoned, undermined, or simply ignored. A Fragmented Continent
focuses on Latin America's three major blocs at the U.N. climate
negotiations and how they attempt to balance climate action with
building prosperity. Brazil has reduced its deforestation but
continues its drive for economic growth and global recognition. A
leftist group led by Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador decries the
injustice of climate change but is highly dependent on the export
of fossil fuels. A new group, including Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru
and supported by Mexico, offers sharp reductions in their carbon
emissions in return for greater action by others; these countries
now have to deliver on their promises. Weaving together issues of
politics and economy, trade, foreign policy, civil society, and
environmental protection, A Fragmented Continent offers a
long-missing perspective on one of this century's greatest
challenges and neglected regions.
Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the
rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.
Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How
effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of
greatest environmental need?
From the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972 to the G8
Gleneagles meeting in 2005, the issue of the impact of aid on the
global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and
debate. How much progress has there been in improving environmental
protection and clean-up in the developing world? What explains the
patterns of environmental aid spending and distribution - is it
designed to address real problems, achieve geopolitical or
commercial gains abroad, or buy political mileage at home? And what
are the consequences for the estimated 4 million people that die
each year from air pollution, unsafe drinking water, and lack of
sanitation?
All of these questions and many more are addressed in this
groundbreaking text, which is based on the authors' work compiling
the most comprehensive dataset of foreign aid ever assembled. By
evaluating the likely environment impact of over 400,000
development projects by more than 50 donors to over 170 recipient
nations between 1970 and 2001, Greening Aid represents a unique,
state of the art picture of what is happening in foreign
assistance, and its impact on the environment. Greening Aid
explains major trends and shifts over the last three decades, ranks
donors according to their performance, and offers case studies
which compare and contrast donors and types of environmental aid.
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved. The authors show that conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one struggle changes policy, trains political actors, activists, and industry representatives, and can have a significant effect on all future struggles.
An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change
politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and
sustainable climate outcomes. After nearly a quarter century of
international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a
crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent
the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face
inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are
expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries.
How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically
inadequate international response to climate change? In Power in a
Warming World, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan,
bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers,
and activists to bear on this urgent question. Combining rich
empirical description with a political economic view of power
relations, they document the struggles of states and social groups
most vulnerable to a changing climate and describe the emergence of
new political coalitions that take climate politics beyond a simple
North-South divide. They offer six future scenarios in which power
relations continue to shift as the world warms. A focus on
incremental market-based reform, they argue, has proven
insufficient for challenging the enduring power of fossil fuel
interests, and will continue to be inadequate without a bolder,
more inclusive and aggressive response.
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