The show must go on? Revisiting the script of international climate cooperation 10 years after Paris
Join the Environment and Climate Politics Working Group for an online event on the state and direction of global climate governance 10 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 five of the SI authors to discuss their contributions.
The speakers will be:
- Maria Jernnäs (Linköping University) Measure-ability: The Paris Agreement’s Transparency Regime and the Making of the Calculating State
- Cecilia Oliveira (RIFS Potsdam) Remaking the Amazon? The Emergence of Transterritorial Spaces of Governmentality
- Florian Steig (Oxford University) The Global Politics of Sea Level Rise Adaptatio
- Angela Oels (Augsburg University) More than an Empty Bucket? The Competing Rationalities in the Operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage
- Maarten Hajer (Utrecht University) The Script of the Science–Policy Interface: Performative Routines in Climate Politics
Registration will close two hours before the event begins.