I am pleased to announce that Timmons
Roberts and I have a new journal article in Global Environmental Change on
the transition to neoliberal international climate governance. We argue that the contemporary UNFCCC has adopted
neoliberal reforms which leaves crucial gaps in mitigation,
transparency, equity and representation. Here
is the citation, followed by a link for free access to the article and abstract (until November 3):
Ciplet, David, and J. Timmons Roberts. "Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance." Global
Environmental Change 46 (2017): 148-156.
Abstract:
What
are the guiding principles of contemporary international governance of
climate change
and to what extent do they represent neoliberal forms? We document five
main political and institutional shifts within the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and outline core governance
practices for each phase. In discussing the current phase
since the Paris Agreement, we offer to the emerging literature on
international neoliberal environmental governance an analytical
framework by which the extent of international neoliberal governance can
be assessed. We conceptualize international neoliberal
environmentalism as characterized by four main processes: the
prominence of libertarian ideals of justice, in which justice is defined
as the rational pursuit of sovereign self-interest between unequal
parties; marketization, in which market mechanisms, private
sector engagement and purportedly ‘objective’ considerations are viewed
as the most effective and efficient forms of governance; governance by
disclosure, in which the primary obstacles to sustainability are
understood as ‘imperfect information’ and onerous
regulatory structures that inhibit innovation; and exclusivity, in
which multilateral decision-making is shifted from consensus to
minilateralism. Against this framework, we argue that the contemporary
UNFCCC regime has institutionalized neoliberal reforms
in climate governance, although not without resistance, in a
configuration which is starkly different than that of earlier eras. We
conclude by describing four crucial gaps left by this transition, which
include the ability of the regime to drive adequate
ambition, and gaps in transparency, equity and representation.
Best,
Dave
David Ciplet, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Co-Director of the Just Transition Collaborative
www.colorado.edu/jtc
University of Colorado--Boulder
Office phone: 303.735.4533
http://www.colorado.edu/envs/
david.ciplet@colorado.edu
Book: Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality, available through MIT Press at: https://mitpress.mit.edu/
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