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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.
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its
effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international
cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation strategies such
as those agreed at the Durban Platform of December 2011. This
climate regime aims to define responsibilities, mechanisms, funding
and compliance in order to achieve a clear objective regarding the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Although tackling the causes
of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also
essential to examine the effect of climate change and what
international cooperation can take place to ensure global
adaptation measures. This pioneering book deals exclusively with
the politics of why adaptation as a global responsibility continues
to be ignored. Scientific consensus is that the impacts of climate
change are increasing, as evident from the greater frequency,
intensity and magnitude of climate disasters in recent years. This
book asks why anticipatory and planned measures for reducing
vulnerability to the impacts of climate change should not be
regarded as a global responsibility in the same way as mitigation.
This discrimination is likely to continue unless the framing and
legal basis of adaptation can be strengthened. It is with this aim
in place that Professor Khan utilises his experience in academia
and as a negotiator to analyse the politics surrounding this
important issue. In this book the author sets out a framework for
establishing a legally-binding adaptation regime under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the view to
reducing the gap between the strategic focus on mitigation and
adaptation. This is invaluable research for students researching
climate change from a variety of disciplinary perspectives,
including the politics, law and economics of the issue.
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its
effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international
cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation strategies such
as those agreed at the Durban Platform of December 2011. This
climate regime aims to define responsibilities, mechanisms, funding
and compliance in order to achieve a clear objective regarding the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Although tackling the causes
of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also
essential to examine the effect of climate change and what
international cooperation can take place to ensure global
adaptation measures. This pioneering book deals exclusively with
the politics of why adaptation as a global responsibility continues
to be ignored. Scientific consensus is that the impacts of climate
change are increasing, as evident from the greater frequency,
intensity and magnitude of climate disasters in recent years. This
book asks why anticipatory and planned measures for reducing
vulnerability to the impacts of climate change should not be
regarded as a global responsibility in the same way as mitigation.
This discrimination is likely to continue unless the framing and
legal basis of adaptation can be strengthened. It is with this aim
in place that Professor Khan utilises his experience in academia
and as a negotiator to analyse the politics surrounding this
important issue. In this book the author sets out a framework for
establishing a legally-binding adaptation regime under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the view to
reducing the gap between the strategic focus on mitigation and
adaptation. This is invaluable research for students researching
climate change from a variety of disciplinary perspectives,
including the politics, law and economics of the issue.
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.
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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