Interesting panel. But though I commend academics for seeking to understand and provide options for others to implement, would urge you to think along the following lines:
I am baffled at the lack of research effort/focus on the key players that are responsible for most of the emissions - namely, the huge multi-national corporations. If you try to regulate them locally, they can and will move operations elsewhere to avoid C-taxes or caps. I think we are more likely to get significant reductions if we take a carrot/stick approach, whereby MNCs have much to gain from internalizing GHG impacts via upstream to downstream sustainability efforts, and much to lose to their competitors if they do not do this. Worldwide policies can be developed to do this (e.g., international appliance and/or sustainability standards). MNCs prefer uniform standards than a variety of national ones. Also, we live in an age of interconnectedness that enables us to promote one company over their competitors to billions of consumers worldwide. These options are strangely ignored (to my knowledge) in both academic and policymaking forums. The COPs do not appear to be succeeding to the degree needed. Our planet's health continues to deteriorate. Urge you to consider research in the areas I've outlined above. Rafael -----Original Message----- From: Pam Chasek <[email protected]> To: gep-ed <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 8:55 am Subject: [gep-ed] FW: Climate Change Group - ISA 2013 CFP I am sending this out on behalf of Matthew Bishop. His contact info is at the bottom of the email. Pam Also, I was wondering if you could distribute the following call for ISA 2013 please? Both myself and Chris Holmes (Southampton) have a panel proposal which we are intending to link as two joint panels for ISA 2013. At present, we have roughly 3 papers for each panel, and need a couple more for each in order to be able to submit both. We are also looking for chairs/discussants if anyone is interested. The details are below. Please note that these are very much drafts and we’re happy to work with prospective participants to finesse them further. Best wishes, Matthew Bishop --- ISA climate panel 1 – COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES on CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE The rich literature on climate change governance which has proliferated during the past three decades remains somewhat limited in three main respects. First, it tends to focus on the high politics at the global level which are characterised by attempts to establish a mitigation regime to succeed Kyoto. Second, it mainly addresses the interests of the major developed country and emerging players, from Europe, North America and the so-called BRICS, particularly in the context of climate change diplomacy. Third, the focus of both the academic and policy debates on the question of mitigation has obscured the equally important imperative of adaptation; that is, the theorising of climate change-resilient economic transitions, as well as the political institutions to govern them. As a result, contemporary debates are deficient in both an intellectual and practical sense, something which carries grave consequences for many societies, especially those which are at risk of suffering the most devastating consequences of climate change. This panel seeks to redress the balance. It brings together scholars with a varied regional focus to map how governance responses to climate change are emerging in different parts of the world, at the local, national and regional levels, and which are not adequately captured by the extant literature. It then seeks to interrogate these developments critically, assessing the wider implications for both practical adaptation imperatives and theoretical debates on climate change governance. ISA climate panel 2 – MAPPING THE DIFFUSION OF CLIMATE POLICY Questions of climate policy are intimately bound up with questions of diffusion. On one hand, greenhouse gases, whilst produced by specific actors at specific times and places and within particular regimes of governance, are globally diffuse by nature. Yet, on the other hand, policy-making procedures surrounding climate rely on the institutional landscape of governance at the global (e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), regional (e.g. European Union) and national levels to disseminate and realise climate-related objectives. This panel examines the diffusion of climate change policy with particular attention paid to how discursive framing at different nodal points in the science-governance-policy chain acts to accelerate or retard the diffusion of climate change policy. The panel also examines precisely how patterns of governance themselves govern the diffusion of climate policy. Underlying contributing papers is the question of whether existing modes of governance and existing framing devices help or hinder the urgent need to match climate change policy to the globally diffuse nature of climate change itself. --- Dr Matthew L. Bishop Lecturer, Institute ofInternational Relations Managing Editor, Caribbean Journal of International Relations University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-868-662-2002 (ext. 83238) My profile on academia.edu (with more papers etc.) is here... 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