DOI: 10.1002/wcc.444
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85006089899
论文题名: Safeguarding development and limiting vulnerability: India's stakes in the Paris Agreement
作者: Dubash N ; K
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2017
卷: 8, 期: 2 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Developing countries
; Economic and social effects
; Balance sheets
; Bottom up
; Global context
; Ramp up
; Upper Bound
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; catastrophic event
; climate change
; developing world
; environmental politics
; stakeholder
; vulnerability
; India
英文摘要: India has a great deal at stake in the Paris Agreement. As a large and poor developing country, India stands to gain or lose from both obligations under the Agreement and its effectiveness in addressing climate change. This comment describes India as a premature power in climate politics, locates Indian climate negotiating positions in global context, and develops a balance sheet of India's gains and losses in the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement has received a lukewarm reaction in India because it runs against some key principles of Indian climate politics. However, the Paris Agreement requires assessment by a different set of metrics. Instead of principle-driven changes in national actions, the Paris Agreement architecture relies on inducing changes through procedural commitments and supportive mechanisms. Viewed from this perspective, the Paris Agreement brings some signs of hope for India. The bottom-up contributions should allow India to safeguard development and explore more linkages between development and climate objectives. Even while inadequate, the existing pledges do collectively set an upper bound on catastrophic climate change, although the introduction of a 1.5° goal induces cynicism among Indian stakeholders. The transparency, expert review, and stocktake processes, when combined with regular updates of nationally determined contributions, are designed to ramp up contributions over time. Whether this trajectory is feasible or wishful thinking depends a great deal on future country actions. The Paris Agreement provides a framework within which India could productively engage its interests, even while it by no means guarantees their realization. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e444. doi: 10.1002/wcc.444. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2016 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76180
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
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Dubash N,K. Safeguarding development and limiting vulnerability: India's stakes in the Paris Agreement[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2017-01-01,8(2)