Tag: global governance
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.
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.
Global Governance and Keystone States
Critical challenges—environmental collapse, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and crime, and state collapse—pose existential questions to the continued existence of nation-states.
