Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system

Castro, Paula

doi:10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system
Authors:	Castro, Paula
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4
Published in:	International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Volume(Issue):	20
Issue:	1
Page(s):	41
Pages to:	60
Issue Date:	2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	1567-9764 1573-1553
Language:	English
Subjects:	Burden sharing; Climate negotiation; Mitigation; UNFCCC
Subject (DDC):	320: Politics 333.7: Land, natural recreational areas
Abstract:	Historically, burden sharing of mitigation in the climate regime was operationalized as a binary division of the world between the Annex I group of industrialized countries with emission reduction targets and the non-Annex I (developing) countries without them. The 2015 Paris Agreement arguably ended such division by introducing a bottom-up system of self-differentiated emission reduction commitments through countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions. This paradigmatic regime shift creates the opportunity to research to what extent it has been accompanied by a similar change in member states’ negotiation positions and policymaking. I explore whether key developing countries’ discourses regarding burden sharing of mitigation have changed pre- and post-Paris and how this relates to their own mitigation contributions. Has the Paris Agreement led to a new way of thinking regarding burden sharing? Do countries in favour of abolishing the Annex I–non-Annex I divide also propose more ambitious climate policies? I rely on text analysis of written position papers submitted to the negotiations, focusing on members of two coalitions at opposite extremes of developing countries’ positions: the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean, a group of progressive countries arguing for more comprehensive climate agreements; and the Like-Minded Developing Countries, a coalition that aims to uphold the regime’s differentiation between developed and developing countries.
Further description:	Accepted version posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich, ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-197017
URI:	https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/197017/ https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25289
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Castro, P. (2020). Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 20(1), 41–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4

Castro, P. (2020) ‘Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system’, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 20(1), pp. 41–60. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4.

P. Castro, “Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system,” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 41–60, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4.

CASTRO, Paula, 2020. Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime : positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics [online]. 2020. Bd. 20, Nr. 1, S. 41–60. DOI 10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4. Verfügbar unter: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/197017/

Castro, Paula. 2020. “Past and Future of Burden Sharing in the Climate Regime : Positions and Ambition from a Top-down to a Bottom-up Governance System.” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 20 (1): 41–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4.

Castro, Paula. “Past and Future of Burden Sharing in the Climate Regime : Positions and Ambition from a Top-down to a Bottom-up Governance System.” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020, pp. 41–60, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09465-4.