The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Institutionalization in Global Environmental Governance

• 毛利 勝彦

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• パリ協定と地球環境ガバナンスの制度化

Abstract

The Paris Agreement on climate change adopted in December 2015 has pivotal implications for institutionalization in global environmental governance. Among others, the global goal to avoid 2°C of warming using nationally determined contributions transforms forecasting to backcasting as set by planetary boundaries. The backcasting philosophy is similar to what Jean-Pierre Dupuy calls “enlightened catastrophism,” and to indigenous peoples’ perspective of “borrowing the Earth from our children.” An effective ratchet mechanism is required to realize the Paris Agreement’s aspirational goals. This is not only a transformation of the Kyoto Protocol’s cap-and-trade approach, but also an innovative departure from the Cancun Agreements’ pledge-and-review approach. The concepts of backcasting and the ratchet mechanism have practical implications for other environmental issues in implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Journal

• 社会科学ジャーナル

  社会科学ジャーナル (82), 5-24, 2016-09-30

  国際基督教大学

Details

• CRID: 1390009225393581696
• NII Article ID: 120005860626
• DOI: 10.34577/00004173
• ISSN: 04542134
• Web Site: https://icu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/4300
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Allowed