Essays about: "multilateral climate governance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words multilateral climate governance.

1. 1. Climate Leadership in the Trade Regime Complex : An Assessment of the United States Preferential Trade Agreements

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Jens Wickström; [2022]
   Keywords : International Climate Leadership; Global Governance; The US; Preferential Trade Agreements; Regime Complex;

   Abstract : Emissions keep rising, states keep trading, and Earth will be 1.5°C warmer within five years. These are results of inadequate global governance. As globalisation has brought complexity to the international settings, creating overlapping webs of interactions: no International Organisation has properly responded. READ MORE

3. 2. Profiting from or fighting climate change? A case study of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ivan Davydov; [2022]
   Keywords : climate change; sustainability; liberal environmentalism; climate clubs; climate governance; OGCI; Oil and Gas Climate Initiative; non-state actors; private actors; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Following recent developments in multilateral cooperation, literature on global climate governance has paid increasing attention to non-state actors. Contributing to this debate, this study focuses on a new group of businesses that aim to combat climate change, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). READ MORE

4. 3. Overcoming social barriers to urban green adaptation : a social representations approach to local environmental governance

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Johanna Desthon; [2022]
   Keywords : urban green adaptation; green infrastructure; climate adaptation; nature-based solutions; social representations;

   Abstract : In May 2020, the Stockholm City Council adopted a new environmental program for the period 2020–2023. The sustainability goals within Agenda 2030 have been a guide for the environmental program, and the purpose of the program is to manage and coordinate the city's operations to achieve the vision of a climate-smart and ecologically sustainable Stockholm. READ MORE

5. 4. Evaluating urban climate policies : A comparative case study of Stockholm and Dublin

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Jerker Bohman; [2020]
   Keywords : international relations; urban climate governance; cities; climate policy; climate mitigation; climate adaptation; analytical framework; document analysis; comparative case study; Stockholm; Dublin;

   Abstract : Climate change is a collective action problem that has been seen as something that needs a global solution. This has resulted in multilateral agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, which can largely be said to have been unsuccessful so far. This has led to an increased awareness of the potential of cities as being part of the solution. READ MORE

6. 5. Climate Change Leadership in the eyes of Business

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Mathilde LEMAIRE; [2020]
   Keywords : climate change; leadership; business; Big3; Paris Agreement;

   Abstract : In 2015, the COP21 creates a new hybrid mode of multilateral governance, which aims to make the action of non-states actors a bridge between the political commitments and the government’s actions. The business world is one of these actors with ambitious new roles to implement the Paris Agreements and its NDCs. READ MORE