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Participation, ambition and compliance: can the Paris Agreement solve the effectiveness trilemma?
- Source :
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Environmental Politics . Jul2020, Vol. 29 Issue 5, p761-780. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- An effective climate agreement should simultaneously foster broad participation, high ambition, and sufficient compliance: this is the 'effectiveness trilemma'. While the Paris Agreement has been acclaimed for spurring universal participation, its mitigation mechanism – an unenforced bottom-up framework of voluntary pledges – has been criticized for lacking ambition and incentivizing free riding. Does the Paris Agreement come with effectiveness trade-offs? How ambitious is the Agreement, and how likely is it that countries will comply with it? Using an effectiveness formula to assess ambition, I find that the Paris Agreement constitutes an important improvement compared to business-as-usual. Further, based on evidence from interviews with 21 climate negotiators and observers, the compliance prospects of the Agreement are evaluated as moderately positive. I conclude that the Agreement has the potential to overcome the effectiveness trilemma, and outline policy measures for achieving that objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09644016
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environmental Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144474555
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1710322