气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.09.003
	Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance
	Ciplet D.; Roberts J.T.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	46
英文摘要	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. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change; Climate justice; Inequality; Neoliberal environmental governance; United nations framework convention on climate change
学科领域	analytical framework; climate change; conceptual framework; decision making; environmental justice; environmentalism; governance approach; innovation; neoliberalism; private sector; socioeconomic conditions; sovereignty; sustainability; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
语种	英语
scopus关键词	analytical framework; climate change; conceptual framework; decision making; environmental justice; environmentalism; governance approach; innovation; neoliberalism; private sector; socioeconomic conditions; sovereignty; sustainability; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117218
作者单位	University of Colorado Boulder, 397 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, United States; Brown University, IBES, Brown University, Box 1951, 85 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ciplet D.,Roberts J.T.. Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance[J],2017,46.
APA	Ciplet D.,&Roberts J.T..(2017).Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance.Global Environmental Change,46.
MLA	Ciplet D.,et al."Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance".Global Environmental Change 46(2017).