eprintid: 10174043
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datestamp: 2023-07-27 13:19:34
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creators_name: Maslin, M.A.
creators_name: Lang, J.
creators_name: Harvey, F.
title: A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations
ispublished: pub
subjects: PRESS_UCL_OPEN_ENV
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: climate change, negotiations, UNFCCC, COP26, COP27, Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol, net zero, climate emergency, environmental social movements
note: © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
abstract: The last 35 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiations to deal with climate change. During the same period of time humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, been progress and some notable successes in the negotiations. In 2015, at COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 196 countries adopted the Paris Agreement stating that they would limit global temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and would pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The first review of the Paris Agreement was at COP26 in Glasgow with many countries pledging to go to net zero emissions by the middle of the century. But currently these pledges, if fulfilled, will only limit the global average temperature to between 2.4°C and 2.8°C. At COP27 in Egypt the core agreements from the Glasgow Climate Pact were maintained and countries finally agreed to set up a loss and damage facility – although details of who will provide the finance and who can claim are still be to be worked out. This article reviews the key moments in the history of international climate change negotiations and discusses what the key objectives are for future COP meetings.
date: 2023
date_type: published
publisher: UCL Press
official_url: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000059
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2038717
doi: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000059
lyricists_name: Maslin, Mark
lyricists_id: MAMAS08
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: UCL Open: Environment
volume: 5
article_number: 8
pagerange: 1-16
issn: 26320886
citation:        Maslin, M.A.;    Lang, J.;    Harvey, F.;      (2023)    A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations.                   UCL Open: Environment , 5     , Article 8.  10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000059 <https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444%2Fucloe.000059>.       Green open access   
 
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