Environment, Climate Change, Sustainability
Can Religion Teach Us to Protect Our Environment? Analyzing the Case of Hinduism
Can religion serve as a complementary normative framework to environmentalism? And what are the challenges of moving from religious theory to practice?
After Katowice: Three Civil Society Strategies for Ratcheting Up Climate Ambition
The recent climate conference in Katowice, Poland was a milestone for the Paris Agreement, and it points to the role NGOs can play in encouraging states to ratchet up climate ambition.
Environmental Success Stories: Solving Major Ecological Problems & Confronting Climate Change by Frank M. Dunnivant
Global environmental challenges such as climate change are sometimes viewed as so daunting and complex that we can only aim to mitigate rather than solve the problems they cause. In this book, Frank M. Dunnivant responds with a series of “success stories” designed to instruct on the role of environmental science in policymaking.
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
In this book, Morton’s central question is whether solar geoengineering ought to be part of society’s climate policy portfolio. The author educates, illuminates, and helps the reader connect the dots, but he does not take sides. Instead, he elevates the debate to a new level that acknowledges the enormous trade-offs involved.
Clustering Countries, Changing Climates: An NGO Review to Close the Ambition Gap
The bottom-up element of the Paris Agreement has led to a substantial mismatch between the sum of individual countries’ proposed emissions cuts and the collective goal to hold global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. In this online exclusive, Ewan Kingston proposes a new NGO review of climate contributions that will encourage countries to do more to close the so-called ambition gap.
The Paris Agreement, World Citizenship and National Sovereignty
Nicholas Chan’s contribution to the current issue of Ethics and International Affairs makes the observation that the Paris Agreement on climate change focuses on a “‘bottom-up’ structure, emphasizing national flexibility in order to ensure broader participation”–with the hopes that this nod in favor of national sovereignty will make it easier for governments to set and […]
Climate Contributions and the Paris Agreement: Fairness and Equity in a Bottom-Up Architecture
Ethical questions of fairness, responsibility, and burden-sharing have always been central to the international politics of climate change and efforts to construct an effective intergovernmental response to this problem.
Governing the Environment: Three Motivating Factors
What motivates agents to change global governance arrangements? A look at governance of the environment provides answers.
