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2. Central Bank Policies and Climate Change. Where Do We Stand?
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Vollmer, Uwe
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CENTRAL banking industry ,BANKING policy ,GOVERNMENT policy on climate change ,FINANCIAL security ,MONETARY policy ,CLIMATE change ,PRICE regulation - Abstract
The article reviews the literature on the relationship between climate change and central bank policies. Central banks conduct monetary policy and are responsible for macroprudential supervision. The article focuses on the consequences of transition and physical risks for financial stability and price stability. It also asks what role central banks can play in slowing climate change and what implications climate change has for the future strategy and for the monetary policy framework of the Eurosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Translating Climate Change Anthropology and the Travelling Idea of Climate Change - Introduction.
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de Wit, Sara, Pascht, Arno, and Haug, Michaela
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In the prairies of Alberta, Canada, winters are cold, wood is scarce. This place is home to Native Americans - many of them are highly educated nowadays. One summer, a young Native American Chief, college-educated and incapable of reading the signs of Mother Nature, was asked by his people how cold the next winter will be. Embarrassed of not mastering the traditional skills for predicting the weather, and to be on the safe side, he said to his people: 'Well, I think this will be a pretty cold winter this year.' He then sought help from his college friend, a meteorologist at the local Weather Channel station. 'Tell me, Joshua, don't you think we are facing a cold winter this year?' Equally unable to predict the weather so far ahead, and also to be on the safe side, Joshua the meteorologist confirmed the Chief's opinion: 'Oh, I think this will be a really cold winter', was his answer. So the Chief went back to his people and announced: 'Folks, this year, I know, the winter will be particularly cold - let's all join forces to collect as much wood as we can'. A few weeks later the Chief asked Joshua for a more accurate prediction of the winter. The meteorologist answered: 'I am certain this will be an extremely cold winter!' Back with his people, the Chief announced: 'People - I have signs that this winter will be so cold that none of our ancestors, as long as our memory reaches, have encountered. Let's collect all the wood we can find!' Just before the winter, the Chief consulted his meteorologist friend again, and the meteorologist told him: 'This is going to be a record-breaking winter!' Curious about his certainty, the Chief asked: 'Joshua, tell me, how can you be so certain about this?' To which the meteorologist replied: 'You know, my friend, I have never seen this before in my entire life: all the Native Americans have been collecting wood like crazy this year' (adopted from Huang 2013, 415 - 416, in de Wit 2017, 151). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Climate Change: A GAP Analysis Based on Third World Approaches to International Law.
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GUPTA, JOYEETA
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CLIMATE change , *GAP analysis (Planning) , *INTERNATIONAL law ,UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Thirty years have passed since the climate change issue first emerged on the global scientific and political agenda. It has now been twenty years since negotiations on climate change issues began. This paper argues that it is now time to take stock of the progress made on the issue of climate change against the background of increasing critique of the international legal system. It argues that there are five types of critique of the functioning of international law: environmentalist, democratic, neo-liberal, epistemic, and third world. This paper selects the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) critique as its starting point and identifies three elements of a TWAIL approach, referred to as a GAP analysis. Thus far, TWAIL has not specifically examined environmental issues, nor have environmental lawyers taken a TWAIL perspective on climate change. This paper will therefore ask whether the goals of developing countries are being met, whether there is an explicit or implicit bias in the arguments underlying the regime, and whether a perception of patterns of inequity is emerging. Using this analytical framework, this paper examines the history of the regime over five time periods and discusses its five inherent contradictions. More specifically, it examines the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, focusing in particular on the targets countries are willing to adopt in the post-2009 period, and concludes that developing country goals are not being met. Although the climate change regime began with good intentions and norms, these are scarcely being implemented in line with the spirit of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and patterns of inequity are, in fact, emerging. Furthermore, as the treaty negotiations are hostage to the domestic politics of the United States, the challenge to international lawyers and scholars is to find ways of proactively designing law so that it is capable of addressing global environmental problems both effectively and in a way that is not seen as prejudicing the interests of two thirds of the members of the United Nations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
5. Rising Waters, Shrinking States: The Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction.
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SCHOFIELD, CLIVE
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ABSOLUTE sea level change , *ECONOMIC zones (Law of the sea) , *BASELINES (Maritime law) , *CLIMATE change , *INTERNATIONAL law - Abstract
Global sea levels are rising and this trend has been linked to anthropogenically- induced climate change. This phenomenon has raised concerns over a range of threats to coastal States and coastal-dwelling populations. While this paper reviews these issues, its main focus is on the potential implications ofsea level rise on national claims to maritime jurisdiction. Such claims are generally measured from baselines along the coast. The paper examines, in particular, the predominant type of baseline used by coastal States, that is, "normal" baselines coinciding with iow water lines along the coast. The traditional implication of using the low-water line as the basis for measuring maritime claims is that as the low waterline along the coast changes or "ambulates," so too will the maritime limits measured from it. As sea levels rise, normal baselines are likely to retreat inland leading to potentially substantial losses in the areas of nationally-claimed maritime spaces. Options to preserve the maritime claims of coastal States threatened by sea level rise are explored, It is argued that there is a growing need for a departure from the traditional norm of ambulatory normal baselines and consequently shifting maritime jurisdictional limits in the interests ofproviding marine users with stability, clarity and certainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
6. Climate Change and International Law: Exploring the Linkages Between Human Rights, Environment, Trade and Investment.
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AERNI, PHILIPP, BOlE, BERTRAM, COTTIER, THOMAS, HOLZER, KATERYNA, JOST, DANNIE, KARAPINAR, BARIS, MATTEOTTI, SOFYA, NARTOVA, OLGA, PAYOSOVA, TETYANA, RUBINI, LUCA, SHINGAL, ANIRUDH, TEMMERMAN, FITZGERALD, XOPLAKI, ELENA, and BIGDELI, SADEQ Z.
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CLIMATE change , *INTERNATIONAL environmental law , *HUMAN rights , *FOREIGN trade regulation , *CLIMATE change mitigation ,UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) - Abstract
Mapping the relevant principles and norms of international law, the paper discusses scientific evidence and identifies current legal foundations of climate change mitigation, adaptation and communication in international environmental law, human rights protection and international trade regulation in WTO law. It briefly discusses the evolution and architecture of relevant multilateral environmental agreements, in particular the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the potential role of human rights in identifying pertinent goals and values of mitigation and adaption and eventually turns to principles and rules of international trade regulation and investment protection which are likely to be of crucial importance should a new multilateral agreement fail to materialize. The economic and legal relevance of rules on tariffs, border tax adjustment and subsidies, services and intellectual property and investment law are discussed in relation to the production, supply and use of energy. Moreover, lessons from trade negotiations may be drawn for negotiations of future environmental instruments. The paper offers a survey of the main interacting areas of public international law and discusses the intricate interaction of all these compo- nents informing climate change mitigation, adaptation and communication in international law in light of an emerging doctrine of multilayered governance. It seeks to contribute to greater coherence of what today is highly fragmented and rarely discussed in an overall context. The paper argues that trade regulation will be of critical importance in assessing domestic policies and that potential trade remedies offer powerful incentives for all nations alike to participate in a multilateral framework defining appropriate goals and principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
7. Climate Change and Everyday Life in Toineke Village, West Timor: Uncertainties, Knowledge and Adaptation.
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Hornidge, Anna-Katharina and Scholtes, Fabian
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CLIMATE change ,ECONOMICS ,RISK society ,POOR people ,THEORY of knowledge ,RISK assessment - Abstract
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- 2011
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8. The Arctic Council at 15 Years: Edging Forward in a Sea of Governance Challenges.
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VANDERZWAAG, DAVID L.
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CLIMATE change , *SEA ice , *BOTANY , *REGIONAL cooperation , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *POLLUTANTS - Abstract
With the impacts of climate change on the Arctic, including the thinning and decreasing extent of sea ice and projected dramatic increases in access to and development of regional resources, the adequacy of existing governance arrangements for the Arctic is increasingly being questioned. Through a two-part format, this article reviews how the Arctic Council is faring as the key regional governance institution for the Arctic since being established pursuant to a Declaration adopted by the eight Arctic States in September 1996. How the Council has edged forward the regional cooperation agenda through its six working groups and Ministerial meetings is first described. The recent governance innovation of establishing task forces to negotiate regional instruments on search and rescue and emergency preparedness and response is highlighted. The paper then turns to provide an overview of key challenges confronting the Arctic Council: fully implementing existing commitments and recommendations; completing the Arctic Council's restructuring; addressing future governance of ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction in the Arctic; and strengthening the 'Arctic voice' in international fora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
9. Climate Change: What Should Liberals Do?
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Novak, Mikayla
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CLIMATE change ,LIBERALISM ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,ECONOMIC liberty ,PROGRESSIVISM ,POLITICAL doctrines - Abstract
Ecological sustainability issues, including the desire to ameliorate climate change impacts upon economic, social and political systems, figure prominently in twenty-first century public discourses. Despite growing community agreement over the need to avert the worst effects of climate change, a perceived lack of political progress in advancing multilateral climate-change policy is fueling dissatisfaction over the capacity of technocratic administration to deliver solutions to tackle this deep-seated and, for some, existential problem. We draw upon classical liberal insights, and utilize the contextually-aware systems approach of "entangled political economy," to consider a constructive case for actions on climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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10. Framing Climate Change Adaptation from a Pacific Island Perspective - The Anthropology of Emerging Legal Orders.
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Klepp, Silja
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Kiribati is among the many islands in Oceania that are highly affected by anthropogenic climate change and has, as such, adopted a proactive role to deal with adaptation. The article analyses how the government brings together climate change discourses with its struggle for new rights and resources for the country. The awareness of anthropogenic climate change has generated new parameters for law-making processes and emerging legal orders. The article develops a new concept of how to frame the cultural and social impacts of climate change from a Pacific Island perspective, in order to overcome shortcomings of the widely-employed notions of 'vulnerability' and 'resilience' as frames for adaptation to climate change in Oceania. By employing the notion of climate change as a 'travelling idea', combined with the 'anthropology of emerging legal orders', the research perspective presented here enables us to analyse emerging social and legal orders that evolve in face of climate change and particular global framings, which will be illustrated here by recent developments on the island state of Kiribati in the central Pacific. It combines the theoretical perspective of legal pluralism with aspects of the 'sociology of emergence' of de Sousa Santos and Rodriguez-Garavito, who shed light on bottom-up processes in justice building and on emerging rights in the Global South (2005). It will be argued that other regions, particularly the often migration-unfriendly Global North, can learn from the new concepts of belonging, migration and solidarity as empowering strategies that are developing in Oceania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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