Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties
Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties
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10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.005
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2020-07
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6
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C. Wamsler;Niko Schäpke;Carolin Fraude;D. Stasiak;T. Bruhn;M. Lawrence;Heike Schroeder;L. Mundaca
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作者：
C. Wamsler;Niko Schäpke;Carolin Fraude;D. Stasiak;T. Bruhn;M. Lawrence;Heike Schroeder;L. Mundaca
向无化石能源社会过渡的技术和政策解决方案是存在的，许多国家可以负担得起过渡，迅速采取气候行动的合理理由比比皆是。然而，仍然缺乏有效的行动。占主导地位的政策方针未能以接近避免潜在灾难性未来所需的速度、规模或深度采取行动。尽管在《联合国气候变化框架公约》（《气候公约》）下进行了30年的气候谈判，并在国家、跨国和国家以下各级采取了广泛的行动，但情况仍然如此。因此，越来越多的从业者和学者认为，问题的根源也必须得到解决-气候紧急情况产生的心态（或范式）。在此背景下，我们调查了决策者对不同心态和内在品质的需求的看法，这些心态和内在品质可以支持谈判和启动气候行动，沿着可能实现这种心态转变的因素。数据是在2019年第25届《联合国气候变化框架公约》缔约方会议（COP 25）期间举办的参与式研讨会上收集的，包括调查、社交媒体交流和对缔约方会议与会者的半结构化访谈。我们的研究结果强调了参与者之间的广泛共识，即需要一种思维方式的转变，这种转变可以支持新的沟通和协作方式，这种方式基于更多的认知，存在和行动的关系模式。它们还表明，这种思维方式的转变正在各部门和各背景下出现，但尚未在集体和系统层面出现。最后，他们强调了变革技能的重要性和实验性安全空间的必要性。后者被视为一种明显的表现和推动者，可以通过共享的自我反思、经验和实践来支持机构变革。我们提出了一个变革性的技能框架，并得出结论，进一步的研究需求和政策建议。
Technological and policy solutions for transitioning to a fossil-free society exist, many countries could afford the transition, and rational arguments for rapid climate action abound. Yet effective action is still lacking. Dominant policy approaches have failed to generate action at anywhere near the rate, scale or depth needed to avoid potentially catastrophic futures. This is despite 30 years of climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and wide-ranging actions at national, transnational and sub-national levels. Practitioners and scholars are, thus, increasingly arguing that also the root causes of the problem must be addressed – the mindset (or paradigm) out of which the climate emergency has arisen. Against this background, we investigate decision-makers’ views of the need for a different mindset and inner qualities that can support negotiating and activating climate action, along with factors that could enable such a mindset shift. Data were collected during participatory workshops run at the 25th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP25) in 2019, and comprise surveys, as well as social media communication and semi-structured interviews with COP attendees. Our results underline vast agreement among participants regarding the need for a mindset shift that can support new ways of communication and collaboration, based on more relational modes of knowing, being and acting. They also suggest the emergence of such a mindset shift across sectors and contexts, but not yet at the collective and systems levels. Finally, they highlight the importance of transformative skills and the need for experimental, safe spaces. The latter are seen as a visible manifestation and enabler that can support agency for change through shared self-reflection, experience and practice. We present a transformative skills framework, and conclude with further research needs and policy recommendations.