Location
Ceremonial Mootcourt Room
Start Date
4-7-2012 10:15 AM
End Date
4-7-2012 12:00 PM
Description
Increasingly it is becoming apparent that addressing global environmental problems through international diplomacy is not working optimally. Through the lenses of the recent Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COPs 15-17) this paper will analyse international environmental diplomacy and assess the extent to which it has been useful in promoting the objectives of sustainable development. In particular it appears that progressively geopolitics is supplanting the underlying aim of international environmental law i.e. to deal with global environmental challenges. I conclude that there is a need for a rethink of how do we address global environmental problems to take into account the failure of the current international legal processes. An approach grounded in an understanding of the potential of regional diplomacy and agreements is preferred and could be more effective than global approaches.
Presentation
Included in
The Climate Change COP 17 Debacle: Is This the Beginning of the Failure of International Environmental Diplomacy?
Ceremonial Mootcourt Room
Increasingly it is becoming apparent that addressing global environmental problems through international diplomacy is not working optimally. Through the lenses of the recent Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COPs 15-17) this paper will analyse international environmental diplomacy and assess the extent to which it has been useful in promoting the objectives of sustainable development. In particular it appears that progressively geopolitics is supplanting the underlying aim of international environmental law i.e. to deal with global environmental challenges. I conclude that there is a need for a rethink of how do we address global environmental problems to take into account the failure of the current international legal processes. An approach grounded in an understanding of the potential of regional diplomacy and agreements is preferred and could be more effective than global approaches.