Book Description
Contributed articles; partly with reference to India and Canada.
Author : North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : New York NY
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Climatic changes
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Contributed articles; partly with reference to India and Canada.
Author : Shawkat Alam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107055695
Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.
Author : Alberto Ansuategi
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Jan Beermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3658171464
Jan Beermann addresses persistent research gaps in urban climate governance and North-South cooperation. He compares the form, processes and outcomes of four local climate protection projects conducted as part of German-Indian urban cooperation and explores the conditions associated with the success and/or failure in these initiatives. The study concludes that North-South city partnerships struggle to fully realise their potential to foster global climate protection efforts, specifically in terms of post-project sustainability, multi-level governance coordination, and mutuality. On the basis of these findings, practical policy recommendations on how to maximise the outcomes and broaden the scope of urban climate cooperation are provided.
Author : J. Timmons Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0262264412
The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial nations, including the United States, refuse to curtail their own excesses unless developing countries make similar sacrifices. Meanwhile, although industrialized countries are responsible for 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, developing countries suffer the "worst and first" effects of climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods, and storms, because of their geographical locations. In A Climate of Injustice, J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley Parks analyze the role that inequality between rich and poor nations plays in the negotiation of global climate agreements. Roberts and Parks argue that global inequality dampens cooperative efforts by reinforcing the "structuralist" worldviews and causal beliefs of many poor nations, eroding conditions of generalized trust, and promoting particularistic notions of "fair" solutions. They develop new measures of climate-related inequality, analyzing fatality and homelessness rates from hydrometeorological disasters, patterns of "emissions inequality," and participation in international environmental regimes. Until we recognize that reaching a North-South global climate pact requires addressing larger issues of inequality and striking a global bargain on environment and development, Roberts and Parks argue, the current policy gridlock will remain unresolved.
Author : Patti L. Petesch
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This study provides a road map of the principal measures that are proposed to slow climate change, deforestation, & species extinction, as well as the areas of agreement & disagreement between North & South. It will assess the potential costs to the developing world to stem these goal threats & discuss how these costs might complement & compete with other economic & environmental needs.
Author : J. Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9401589259
The climate change problem can only be effectively dealt with if global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be reduced substantially. Since the emission of such gases is closely related to the economic growth of countries, a critical problem to be addressed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) is: how will the permissible emission levels be shared between industrialised (ICs) and developing countries (DCs)? The thesis of this book is that the long-term effectiveness of the FCCC runs the risk of a horizontal negotiation deadlock between countries and the risk of vertical standstill within countries if there is little domestic support for the domestic implementation of measures being announced in international negotiations. The research question is: Can one observe trends towards horizontal deadlock and vertical standstill and if yes, how can the treaty design be improved so as to avoid such potential future bottlenecks? The research focuses on the perspectives of domestic actors on the climate convention and related issues in four developing countries: India, Indonesia, Kenya and Brazil. The following key findings emerge from the research: 1. Handicapped negotiating power: The common theme of the foreign policy of DCs is that ICs are responsible for the bulk of the GHG emissions and need to take appropriate domestic action.
Author : Bikal Dhungel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3640902432
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, grade: 2,7, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: The rise of south-south cooperation has added a new perspective in the changing nature of world trade. The emergence of China, India, Brazil and South Africa can result in a changed global industrial setting which could ultimately help to solve the global problem of poverty. The role of South-South cooperation in linking industrial development, the expansion of trade and poverty reduction is not a new subject in international dialog today. ‘In Latin America and the Caribbean, South-South cooperation is a very important mechanism not only to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, but also for a regional development agenda concerned with social inequality and weak institutions, as well as with the fight against poverty’ reports FRIDE, an European think tank for global action. The Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels in May 2001, emphasized the importance of South-South cooperation in capacity-building and setting best practices, particularly in the areas of health, education, training, environment, science and technology, trade, investment and transit transport cooperation.
Author : Maike Sippel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2022
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Author : Irving M. Mintzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1994-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521479141
Reconstructs negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.