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- Title: Climate Change: Governance Challenges for Copenhagen (Global Insights) (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Report)
- Author : Global Governance
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 259 KB
Description
Climate change has been described as "a diabolical policy problem ... harder than any other issue of high importance that has come before our polity in living memory." (1) To deal with it effectively involves many different policy areas. These include not only the obvious ones like energy, but also others such as macroeconomic and fiscal policy, food security, health, water, trade, biodiversity, and even immigration. The financial implications of climate change--impacts, adaptation, and mitigation--are huge and growing. There is a need for massive deployment of technology, a sector notoriously difficult to regulate. Climate change also involves time frames unknown in public policy. There is currently no overall governance arrangement to integrate all these dimensions. The Bonn-based UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, with its mandate defined by the existing convention and the Kyoto Protocol, can easily be seen as too narrow in scope and expertise, and too small to cope with the scale and complexity of this global challenge. It is often pointed out that the international institutional framework is sectorally based, whereas climate change is inherently a cross-sectoral issue. Another weakness is that the Annex I/non-Annex I distinction on which the convention, the protocol, and, to a large extent, the negotiations under the Bali Road Map are based has outlived its usefulness. The Bali Road Map negotiations have softened this distinction a little by referring to developed and developing countries, but even this cannot adequately reflect the range of responsibilities and capabilities among countries. By 2050, the horizon we need to work toward if the world is to come to grips with global warming forty-two years after the start of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period, the evolution of the world's major economies will have rendered these dualities irrelevant.
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