POLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Climate Group, The Negotiation, Capacity Building
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Polb81 lecture 11 march 25th 2013. International community has tried to govern climate change. Help states deal with problems that they can"t solve. What kind of problem is climate change: cooperation climate change is a multilateral cooperation because causes and effects are distributed globally. No government can handle climate change by itself. Institutionalism tells us that we should use the tool of multilateral cooperation to solve problems: climate change is a problem of emission reductions. This is the key since 1990: climate governance is about mitigation. Before 5 to 7 years ago, the problem of mitigation. Last 5 7 years it was a problem of adaptation and mitigation. Multilateral negotiation in some way, are simple. 1980s and early 1990s is when climate change got on the international agenda. Climate scientist said that carbon dioxide was going up too quickly and there needs to be potential change in climate.