Climate Clubs and Their Relevance Within the Paris Agreement
Climate Clubs and Their Relevance Within the Paris Agreement
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10.1007/978-3-319-54699-5_3
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2017
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Michele Stua
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作者：
Michele Stua
由于外交危机可能压倒关于气候变化国际制度的谈判，某些新的理论气候政策模型开始在国际辩论中站稳脚跟。基于减少参与者数量的小规模谈判的假设，以及合作国家的“小边”俱乐部带头应对气候变化的想法，迅速在学者和政策制定者中传播，导致一些评论家将其视为可能的“最后立场”解决方案，以防国际气候谈判失败。《巴黎协定》的突破，被大多数人誉为"自由主义"的最终胜利，最终超过了任何小的单边野心，至少在气候谈判过程中是这样。尽管如此，围绕《巴黎协定》雄心勃勃的目标的实施的高度不确定性可能为特定类别的"小边"模式（称为"转型俱乐部"）在新的国际气候制度中找到自己的重要空间提供了机会。在描述气候俱乐部的一般特征和"转型俱乐部"的具体特征的同时，本章讨论了后者在气候变化国际辩论的未来发展中可能有效发挥作用的程度。
As diplomatic crisis threatened to overwhelm the negotiations for an international regime on climate change, certain new theoretical climate policy models began to gain a foothold in international debate. Hypotheses for smaller scale negotiations based upon a reduced number of actors, as well as the idea of ‘minilateral’ clubs of cooperating countries taking the lead in acting against climate change, quickly spread among scholars and policy makers, leading several commentators to view them as possible ‘last stance’ solutions in case the international climate negotiations failed. The Paris Agreement breakthrough, hailed by most as the ultimate victory of ‘multilateralism’, eventually overtook any minilateral ambition, at least concerning the climate bargaining process. Nevertheless, the high degree of uncertainty surrounding the implementation of the Paris Agreement’s ambitious objectives may represent a window of opportunity for a specific category of ‘minilateral’ models, known as ‘transformational clubs’, to find their own significant space within the new international climate regime. While describing the general characteristics of climate clubs and the specific features of ‘transformational clubs’, this Chapter discusses to what extent these latter may effectively play a role in the future developments of the international debate on climate change.