DOI: 10.1002/wcc.212
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84876179840
论文题名: Adaptation and international climate policy
作者: Khan M ; R ; , Roberts J ; T
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2013
卷: 4, 期: 3 起始页码: 171
结束页码: 189
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Developing countries
; Economics
; Finance
; Gas emissions
; Greenhouse gases
; Adaptation to climate changes
; Changing climate
; Development project
; Early requirements
; Economic development
; External funding
; Private investment
; Technical solutions
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; carbon emission
; climate change
; developing world
; economic development
; environmental policy
; greenhouse gas
; policy development
; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
英文摘要: Because of the failure of the world to agree an adequate regime to limit greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, adaptation to climate change has risen rapidly in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations since 2007. We closely review the development of policies, institutions, and financing of adaptation in international agreements from 1992 to the present. We conclude that the way the treaty has been built-first as a mitigation regime with adaptation added on only later-has led to some profound problems for marrying the goals of economic development and building climate resilient societies. Particularly there are two problematic areas. First, following mitigation approaches, technical solutions are often the focus in adaptation projects, when social, political, and cultural problems lie at the roots of vulnerability and should be addressed directly. Second, early requirements that external funding would only come if the adaptation effort was clearly 'additional' to what would have been done without a changing climate have been extremely pernicious. By attempting to divide a development project from the 'additional' costs of adapting to climate change, the global policy has shaped adaptation efforts at the local level. To understand how we ended up with such quirky definitions of what counts as adaptation, we need to review the history of adaptation in the negotiated regimes. Finally, we trace the incomplete negotiations over who will pay for adaptation in developing countries, whether that funding will come as grants or loans, as private investment or public funds, and what say recipient countries will have. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76387
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: Department of Environmental Science and Management, North-South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Recommended Citation:
Khan M,R,, Roberts J,et al. Adaptation and international climate policy[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2013-01-01,4(3)