Climate Change Politics through a Global Pledge-and-Review Regime: Positions among Negotiators and Stakeholders

Sustainability

Katarina Buhr¹  Susanna Roth¹ 

[1] IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 210 60, SE-100 31 Stockholm, Sweden; E-Mails:

关键词: climate change;    critique;    legitimacy;    negotiations;    pledge-and-review;    politics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su6020794

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Pledge-and-review is an essential pillar for climate change mitigation up until 2020 under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In this paper, we build on a survey handed out to participants at the Seventeenth Conference of Parties in 2011 to examine to what extent climate negotiators and stakeholders agree with existing critiques towards pledge-and-review. Among the critique examined, we find that the one most agreed with is that the pledges fall short of meeting the 2 degree target, while the one least agreed with is that pledges are voluntary. We also find that respondents from Annex 1 parties are more critical than respondents from Non-Annex 1 parties. Negotiators display strikingly similar responses regardless of where they are from, while there is a remarkable difference between Annex 1 and Non-Annex 1 environmental non-governmental organizations. We build on these results to discuss the legitimacy of pledge-and-review.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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