DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.916598
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84927910003
论文题名: Agreement, significance, and understandings of historical responsibility in climate change negotiations
作者: Friman M ; , Hjerpe M
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2015
卷: 15, 期: 3 起始页码: 302
结束页码: 320
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Brazilian proposal
; burden sharing
; cumulative emissions
; equity
; historical responsibility
; negotiations
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: For over 20 years, Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have struggled with the normative significance of history for the differentiation of responsibilities. Negotiations on ‘historical responsibility’ have been marked by considerable conflict between developed and developing countries. However, in 2010, the Parties acknowledged the concept in a consensus decision. This article analyses UN Climate Change Conference delegates’ agreement with the decision, whether it reconciled conflict between interpretations of historical responsibility, and the significance that delegates ascribe to the decision for future agreements. The decision has not eliminated conflict between different interpretations. Delegates who understand historical responsibility as linking countries’ historical contributions to climate change to their responsibilities to act agree more with the decision and foresee it having a stronger influence on future agreements than do those viewing the concept in more conceptual terms. The decision marks the start of negotiations concerning how rather than whether historical responsibility should guide operative text. This article demonstrates that (1) the divergent interpretations pose clear challenges for a necessary but demanding agreement on operationalization, and (2) focusing on an ambiguous version of proportionality between contribution to change and responsibility can become a first step for convergence between divergent positions. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80425
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作者单位: Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research – CSPR (Linköping University and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), Department of Thematic Studies, the Unit for Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Recommended Citation:
Friman M,, Hjerpe M. Agreement, significance, and understandings of historical responsibility in climate change negotiations[J]. Climate Policy,2015-01-01,15(3)