Essays about: "United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change.

  1. 1. Is Climate Displacement in Legal Limbo? An examination of the protection of climate migrants in international refugee and climate change law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Emmie Eklund; [2023]
    Keywords : Public International Law; Refugee Law; Climate Change Law; Climate Displacement; Climate Migration; Climate Refugee; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines international legal protection for persons displaced across boarders due to climate change. Rapid climate change and escalating climate threats are projected to displace up to 2.1 billion people, roughly 25% of the global population, by 2050. READ MORE

  3. 2. POSSIBLE TIMING OF THE TRANSITION FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL TO INDUSTRIAL CLIMATE IN THE CENTRAL TO NORTHERN OF SWEDEN, BASED ON PROXY DATA FROM TREE-RINGS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Mika Falkensjö Oppenheim; [2022-09-28]
    Keywords : Tree-ring; maximum latewood density MXD ; Scandinavia; pre-industrial; industrial climate;

    Abstract : Earth’s climate has varied through time, with orbital forcing as the most dominant force on the climate system the last million years, causing glacial-interglacial cycles. The last glacial period ended about 11.6 thousand years (kyr), ago and the last interglacial maximum around 6.5 kyr ago. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploring the Participation of Youth Activists and Advocates from the Global South at COP26

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Katarzyna Pawelczyk; [2022]
    Keywords : climate activism; youth climate activism; COP26; Global South; youth participation; youth engagement;

    Abstract : The climate crisis is one of the most pressing challenges of the global development agenda. In recent years, young people have been publicly recognised as key stakeholders in efforts to address it. READ MORE

  5. 4. Balanced interests in the Paris Agreement : Analysis of COP attendees’ interests at multilateral climate negotiations pre- and post-the Paris Agreement

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Douglas Cederlund; Karl Hammarsten; [2021]
    Keywords : Mitigation; Adaptation; Financing; Paris Agreement; UNFCCC; Multilateral negotiations; Utsläppsreducering; Anpassning; Finansiering; Parisavtalet; UNFCCC; Multilaterala förhandlingar;

    Abstract : The United Nations climate change conferences are the utmost platform for climate change negotiations and are convened under an international treaty known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The causes of greenhouse gas emissions are deeply embedded in the economic and social activity on a global scale and yet, developing countries are expected to evolve into developed countries without straining the environment further. READ MORE

  6. 5. The United Nation and the threat of climate change : A critical security study of UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Axel Västermark; [2021]
    Keywords : Security; Climate Change; Copenhagen Theory; Securitization;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the language of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement through the lens of security. It departs from the observation that the securitized rhetoric on climate change is not matched with the kind of policies such rhetoric would suggest is necessary. READ MORE