Special Circumstances' and the Politics of Climate Vulnerability
African Agency in the UN Climate Change Negotiations
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| ID | 2303525 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nicholas Chan (0000-0002-6018-2833, Monash University Malaysia, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 314-332 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Africa Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0002-0397 • E-ISSN: 1868-6869 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002039721991151 |
| OpenAlex | W3175230279 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 32 |
African countries are well recognised as being among the worst affected by the impacts of climate change. However, efforts to secure recognition of these 'special circumstances' of African countries within the UN climate negotiations have been unsuccessful, despite this being a continental priority prior to and following adoption of the Paris Agreement. Such status is linked to global priorities for funding adaptation to climate change. This article explores why some other groups of developing countries have been successful in securing such recognition when African countries have not. It provides a historical institutionalist explanation of the path-dependent politics of such institutional recognition, emphasising the timing of when different groups have advanced vulnerability claims, which shapes the opposition that African countries have encountered in their efforts, as relative late-movers, to exercise agency. It highlights contestation surrounding what 'vulnerability' to climate impacts means, and how this contestation has divided Global South solidarity
Agency (philosophy · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Negotiation · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Vulnerability (computing · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Energy and Environment Impacts · International Development and Aid · Law
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments
Anti-fossil fuel norms
Twenty-five years of adaptation finance through a climate justice lens
Politics in Time
Development Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries
Africa in the global climate change negotiations
Exploring the agency of Africa in climate change negotiations
A historical institutionalist view on merging Lulucf and Redd+ in a post-2020 climate agreement
Coalition strategies in the climate negotiations
Africa’s Regional Powers and Climate Change Negotiations
Dynamics of the Southern Collective
The Politics of International Climate Adaptation Funding
Conceptualizing climate vulnerability
Global Trade Governance and the Challenges of African Activism in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
Norm entrepreneurship and diffusion ‘from below’ in international organisations
A Question of Agency
Altruism but not Quite
Historical Institutionalism in International Relations
Emerging Powers and Africa
Briefing
Africa and the rising powers
Development and Climate Aid to Africa
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| Citações por ano | 3 |
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| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |