The show must go on? Revisiting the script of international climate cooperation ten years after Paris

Join the Environment and Climate Politics Working Group for an online event on the state and direction of global climate governance ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement. 

Drawing upon a newly published Special Issue in Global Environmental Politics (edited by Florian Steig, Eva Lövbrand and Angela Oels), this event asks how the “script” for international climate cooperation is discursively (re)produced, performed, and reconfigured at a time when liberal environmentalism is under threat by great power rivalry, rising anti-climate populism, and accelerating climate disasters. How can it be that the annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the 1992 UNFCCC, serving as the Meetings of the Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement, continue as normal when the world as we know it is coming undone? How can countries claim that “the Paris Agreement is working” when their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are clearly “off target” and leading us to a 2.8°C warmer world by the end of this century? To answer these questions, the event brings together leading critical-interpretative scholars across political science, science and technology studies, sociology, and human geography.

Registration will close two hours before the event begins.