International Cooperation on Climate Change
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- Created on: 13-06-15 18:13
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- Why international cooperation on climate change is hard to achieve
- 'Collective good' and national interest
- Adaption and mitigation is expensive
- States are encouraged to be 'free riders'
- Cost to the economy
- Especially for developed states e.g. USA
- Demorcacy
- Party competition such as Congress
- Clinton- didn't agree to Kyoto 1997
- Party competition such as Congress
- Adaption and mitigation is expensive
- Tensions of developed and developing states
- 'Solidarity rights' of developing states; the right to develop
- Climate changewidens North-South divide
- Targets do not include 'outsourcing'
- 1/3 of developed countries eminence outside borders
- Targets do not include 'outsourcing'
- North argues targets would be on current emissions only
- Economic obstacles
- Radical ecology
- Captialist modernity does not suit ecology
- Only eco-anarchism, eco-socialism, eco-feminism can help
- Fossil fuels - the cheaper option- will always be favoured by TNCs and states
- Radical ecology
- Ideological obstacles
- Materialistic values of society
- Our systems are geared towards economic growth only
- So there must be a revisionof values
- 'Collective good' and national interest
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