The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and the MAPS programme at the Energy Research Centre, Cape Town organised a workshop entitled:
Building the Hinge: Reinforcing National and Global Climate Governance Mechanisms
The workshop was held from December 5-7, 2013 at Neemrana Fort-Palace, Alwar, to explore the scope for productive dialogue beyond the binary view that the choice is between “top down” or “bottom up” approaches to climate change. Instead, the objective was to focus on the linkages between the two and the ways in which each can be harnessed towards a climate regime that is both equitable and effective. The workshop was organized around two questions:
- How can the global climate regime support, enhance, and amplify national and sub-national actions to achieve equitable and effective climate protection?
- How can these actions effectively support more robust iterations of a global climate regime?
Participants included practitioners and academics focused on national policies, transnational initiatives and the UNFCCC process, drawn from around the world.
This event was part of a series of collaborative fora hosted by the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and the MAPS programme at the Energy Research Centre, Cape Town to stimulate conversation about global and national governance of development and climate change, in the context of local planning and in the lead up to negotiation of the 2015 UNFCCC agreement.
For further details please see the workshop report and short discussion notes (listed below) prepared by the participants.
Notes by Participants
Domestic Climate Policy
Jennifer Morgan: US Climate Policy – The Past is Prologue
Teng Fei: China Case Study
Michael Grubb: UK Climate Change Policy – The New Politics
Emily Tyler: South Africa: A Case Study on National and Sub-national Climate Policy Experiences
Matias Franchini: Case Study: Low Carbon Developments in Brazil (2005-13), Case Study: Low Carbon Developments in Argentina (2005-13)
Mulugeta Ayalew: Low Carbon Development in Ethiopia
Youba Sokona: Climate resilient and low carbon development: an African wide perspective
Michele Betsill: Cities and Climate Change Governance
D. Raghunandan: India’s domestic climate policy: small disparate steps, no strategy
Conceptual
Navroz K. Dubash: Beyond the Climate Trilemma: The Continued Salience of the UNFCCC in Climate Governance
Xolisa Ngwadla: The conceptions and misconceptions of the Equity Reference Framework in the run-up to Warsaw
Harro van Asselt: The UNFCCC and its institutional environment: Harnessing Fragmentation
Bronwen Morgan: Using Insights from Regulatory Theory to Reinforce National and Global Climate Governance mechanisms
Michele Betsill and Matthew Paterson: Linkages in a Global Climate Governance Complex
Antto Vihma: A New Round of Negotiations, age-old Issues
International and UNFCCC
Halldor Thorgeirsson: Harnessing Domestic Imperatives to Drive and Sustain Contribution to a Global Objective
Lavanya Rajamani: Interplay between Architecture and Differentiation in the Negotiations for the 2015 Agreement
Harald Winker: Multilateral Adjustment of National Commitments
Bert Metz: Making a Pledge and Review system work: National Green Growth Plans, Policies and A Different Approach to Equity
Jacob Werksman: Where did Warsaw Strike the Balance between “Facilitative” and “Prescriptive” Approaches?
T. Jayaraman: India in the Post-Durban Global Negotiations Scenario
Amb. Chandrasekhar Dasgupta: India and Climate Change: The Life and Death of an Ambitious Initiative
Mariama Williams: Re-girding the Climate Finance Pillar of the Global Governance of Climate Change
