IR 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Carbon Offset, Carbon Emission Trading, 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
21 Dec 2016
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Cop 22 is coming up, meaning that we"ve been meeting globally to do something about this for 22 years now. Specific ensembles of ideas, concepts, and categorization that are produced, reproduced, and transformed in a particular set of practices . Judith butler says it sets the limits of acceptable speech, where can the conversation go and what"s taboo. Probably not gonna talk about environmental reparations at the un. Three main discourses that happen at the cops. Green governmentality - technocratic, top-down governance for addressing environmental issues. Prices on emissions, carbon trading, carbon offsets. These guys are dominating the discussion right now. Reform civic environmentalism - let"s get the discourse out there, increase transparency, cooperate, make democracy work. Not bucking the system, reform rather than radical. Well you have the un framework convention on climate change unfccc. Established 1990, kicks off 1992 at earth summit. Encourages ghg stabilization, doesn"t make any requirements. A big negotiation entity with near universal membership.
