Webpages tagged with «Climate change»

How has the EU changed its negotiation strategy in the global climate regime after the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, and how can the Union ensure a more just climate strategy?

Just as the coronavirus, climate change is an existential threat that requires urgent measures. So why are we not treating it with the same kind of urgency, asks GLOBUS researcher Thomas Diez.

Thomas Diez gave a keynote speech at the Marmara Conference on European Studies (MCES) in Istanbul in February 2020.

Solveig Aamodt, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Elin Lerum Boasson, University of Oslo

Thomas Diez gave a presentation on power transition in Europe at the 13th Pan-European conference on international relations in Sofia on 14 September 2019

Franziskus von Lucke held a public lecture at the rehearsal opening of the Tübingen Zimmertheater at the Institute for Theatrical Futurology on 5 May 2019.

Franziskus von lucke presented at a workshop during the Week of Links on 12 April 2019

Franziskus von Lucke held a public speech during the Tübingen Fridays for Future demonstration on 24 May 2019.

What are the implications of the EU's changing approach to climate negotiations, and what should be the main focus of EU climate policy going forward?

University of Tübingen convened a workshop on China, the EU and global climate justice in Berlin in March 2020.

The new Brazilian government’s seeming neglect of the climate issue causes instability in international climate negotiations, and puts pressure on other large economies like India and China to help fulfil the goals of the Paris Agreement, argues GLOBUS Researcher Solveig Aamodt. But are these countries up to the task?

GLOBUS researchers chaired the panel The European Union: Promoting or obstructing global justice? at the EUSA conference in Denver, Colorado in May 2019. They also participated in various other panels at the conference.

Mai'a K Davis Cross has published an article in the Journal of European Integration, asking: Why was the EU finally able to increase its influence at the 2015 UN summit in Paris?

GLOBUS researcher Alexa Zellentin spoke at the Presidential Inauguration of UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life on 5 February 2018.

Few international negotiations attract such a broad collection of peoples of the Earth as the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Analysing the COP23 negotiations in Bonn, GLOBUS researcher Solveig Aamodt argues that while states are the legally recognized claimants of justice in the negotiations, some steps have been taken to give those most vulnerable to climate change a due hearing. Is there any role at all for non-state actors in such negotiations?

Mai'a K. Davis Cross and Diarmuid Torney explore the contribution diplomacy has made to the EU’s external environmental and climate policies in this book chapter 'Environmental and Climate Diplomacy: Building Coalitions Through Persuasion'.

The GLOBUS partner O.P. Jindal Global University hosted GLOBUS researchers for a week-long visit in November 2017.