The effectiveness of UN environmental institutionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 317-336 - 2007
Steinar Andresen
This is a study of the effectiveness of key UN institutions focussing on environment and sustainable development: the global conferences on development and the environment, the CSD and UNEP, primarily its co-ordinating functions. According to the indicators used to measure effectiveness here, it is concluded that the overall effectiveness of these institutions is quite low. This particularly appli...... hiện toàn bộ
Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation effortSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 117-134 - 2017
Ceecee Holz, Sivan Kartha, Tom Athanasiou
The problem of fairly distributing the global mitigation effort is particularly important for the 1.5 °C temperature limitation objective, due to its rapidly depleting global carbon budget. Here, we present methodology and results of the first study examining national mitigation pledges presented at the 2015 Paris climate summit, relative to equity benchmarks and 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation...... hiện toàn bộ
Removing fuel subsidies: How can international organizations support national policy reforms?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 327-340 - 2017
Joel E. Smith, Johannes Urpelainen
This article investigates how international organizations can support fuel subsidy reform. Departing from earlier studies, we focus on the ability of international organizations to assist national governments directly in the enactment and implementation of national reforms. While international organizations lack the capacity to directly enforce policy or force countries to abolish subsidies, they ...... hiện toàn bộ
Inclusive development, leaving no one behind, justice and the sustainable development goalsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 - Trang 115-121 - 2023
Joyeeta Gupta, Courtney Vegelin
The focus on inclusive development within the 2030 Agenda highlights the contradiction between an inherent ‘business-as-usual’ approach subject to a few restrictions and a radical reformation of the global system. Inclusive development is elaborated through the idea of leaving no one behind, a human rights and a justice approach. Against this background, this perspective argues that there is need ...... hiện toàn bộ
Multicriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental Agreements in assessing international forestry projectsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 117-137 - 2010
Rocío Dánica Cóndor, Antonino Scarelli, Riccardo Valentini
The three Rio Conventions—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification—face the challenge to create synergies at different levels. The objective of this article is to describe how we have assessed synergies between the Rio Conventions at the project level in the forest sector. Since th...... hiện toàn bộ
The “top-down” Kyoto Protocol? Exploring caricature and misrepresentation in literature on global climate change governanceSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 673-692 - 2022
Joanna Depledge
The literature on global climate change governance frequently refers to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a “top-down” instrument, often in unfavourable comparison with the 2015 Paris Agreement, described as “bottom-up”. However, the meaning ascribed to “top-down” is often left undefined, contributing to a surprisingly widespread misunderstanding that the Kyoto Protocol, and in particular its emission ta...... hiện toàn bộ
Access and allocation: the role of large shareholders and investors in leaving fossil fuels undergroundSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 303-322 - 2020
Joyeeta Gupta, Arthur Rempel, Hebe Verrest
An under-researched story is how large shareholders (e.g. Pension Funds) and investors (e.g. Export Credit Agencies) whose investments in fossil fuels may amount to trillions of dollars are implementing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and in particular leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU). Hence, this paper addresses the question: What arguments are used by shareholders and investors in m...... hiện toàn bộ