Six Reasons Why the UN Security Council Should Not Discuss Climate Change
Now may be the right time to shift attention from the UNSC to an alternative forum through which the implications of climate change could be discussed and solutions elicited.
Climate Change: The Lessons from History
Considering the stalemate in climate negotiations it is not likely that the global community can make a joint decision to step forward. Someone has to take the first step – showing the example.
Who Has Moral Responsibility for Climate Change?
Varying degrees of responsibility can be attributed to different parties but the sense of collective responsibility remains. Collective climate change responsibility is not confined to the sphere of governments.
No Need for Despair – Yet
It remains hopeful that with prompt international action a 4ºC warmer world can still be avoided. Studies show there are technically and economically feasible emissions pathways to hold warming below 2ºC.
Whatever Happened to Ozone Layer Politics?
Despite the successes of the Montreal Protocol, the challenges facing global environmental governance have intensified over the last two decades due to changes in rules and attitudes.
Cutting the Gordian Knot: Two Addictions at the Root of Our Climate Change Problem
No matter how we approach climate change, it is crucial that other central environmental concerns, including nature conservation, are not sacrificed in the process of phasing out fossil fuels.
2015 the New Copenhagen? The UNFCCC Process Risks Falling into Faulty Patterns
UNFCCC actors need to converge on overarching processes and strategies, and this necessitates a sober look at past failures, current trajectories and the connections that currently bind them.
The Corporatization of Sustainability
The accelerating market competition to go “green” is not about ensuring the sustainability of the global environment. Rather, it is a competition to turn the concept of sustainability into a business tool.
Nuclear Energy and Resolving Environmental Problems: Examining the Case of India
Enhancing energy production and sustaining the environment are not an either/or choice. India must be greedy enough to want both. Nuclear power does provide a solution worthy of consideration.
Hurricane Sandy: a Climate Change 9/11 for IR Scholars?
Many discussions of global environmental politics eventually get around to this question: should analysts or activists employ doom-and-gloom language to scare people into action?
