Does the Paris Agreement represent a fundamental transformation of climate politics? success in negotiation transformation in that sense

Issues with PA

Strength or how it overcomes PA

Obstacles/ complexities of climate change -> MORAL STORM

first act that imposes obligation on all countries + pledge and review -> more ambitious than previous year + transparrency

talk about tokyo and copenhague

GLOBAL, INTERGENERATIONAL 3 CHARACTERISTICS -> Dispersion of causes and effects, fragmentation agency, institutional inadequacy

issue of fair disrtribution of emission reduction, ethical question which generation share the cost?

economic approach -> modest and gradually increase efforts (cost and benefit reading)

rendall -> clean debt financing approach -> engineering myth?

4 SETS of challenge that we face in cooperation that we called gridlock by hale

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china and us working together -> able to artfully manange these tension (which is one of the main obstacle in) p. 9 + bridge differences -> durable commitment

polittical compromises was neeeded look at past agreemntt why iit failed thats why ndc -> needed to get support

The proposals were designed to achieve breadth of partici
pation
rather than depth of commitment in the first instance through a flexible and
pragmatic accommodation of national differences to draw in all major emitters and
then build depth of commitment over time via a nationally determined approach to
draw support from the more progressive and vulnerable parties.

changed the logic of international climate governance, previously built on interrnational negotiation or legally binding mitigationn in nsome way solve the distribution problem

in copenhague also propose pledge and review system but was rejecteed by developing couunntries

Despite European efforts, the KP was ineffective in
reducing global emission and slowing global temperature
change (Almer and Winkler 2017). The climate regime
remained unsuccessful given an unwilling and an in
sufficiently
strong candidate for hegemon milkoreeit

overcome domestic barrrier -> And congressional opposition to in
ternational
climate agreements has been a stable feature of
American politics since 1997

kp -> The KP
established legally binding mitigation requirements only
for developed countries, exempting all developing coun
tries,
including China and India, from such obligations

argumennt that pa will fall bcs us withdrawal unntrrue -> After President Trump announced his intention
to withdraw from the treaty in June 2016, many countries,
especially k-group members, publicly reconfirmed their milkoreit p.13, even if US backdown -> still possible if kggrroup consist of .,.. p.14

Wallace -> what elicit what government are willing to do and able to do is most important p.12