Climate change and international relations

What is it about?

The major features of climate change as a global, complex, and fluid process are well established in the literature as is its constitutive relationship to the framework of the Anthropocene. The chapter begins with the concept of climate powers, which is a way to address the potential of global climate cooperation that is not based on the traditional focus on the formal international regime—the UNFCCC—but on the features and behaviors of nation-states conceived of as plural actors.

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Why is it important?

It then presents the term the "climate commitment approach" (CCA), which is an analytical tool that allows us to assess whether different countries are being drivers for the stabilization or aggravation of the climate crisis, that is, what position they take in the conservative-reformist continuum.

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