8 Jul 2018

What Governance in a World Rattled by Climate Change ?

Session 27

The International Climate Conference held in Paris (COP 21) ended in December 2015 with the approval of the Paris Agreement by 195 States: the first universal agreement in this field. This marked a historic step-forward in climate geopolitics, with a consensus now reached on the reality of climate deregulation and the necessity to act rapidly to prevent global warming of more than 2°. However, USA’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement – in a grand gesture of defiance with regard to multilateralism – represents a “stress test” for the new strategy to combat climate change.

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This defection is all the more problematic in that, since the Agreement entered into force, numerous studies have confirmed how urgent action is needed – the UN’s Emissions Gap Report (2017), the EIA’s World Energy Outlook in 2017 – leading to the mobilisation of 15,000 scientists (BioScience, November 2017) in conjunction with COP 23.

These tensions raise questions on the governance of problems caused by climate deregulation:

  • Can America’s defiance as a State be compensated by the leadership of other States (China, Europe, etc.) in preserving the dynamics behind the Agreement?
  • Will non-state players (NGOs, cities and regions, companies and so on), highly prominent since COP 21 (including North American players during COP 23), play a decisive role in its implementation?
  • How can solidarity be ensured, given the impending and ever-growing environmental migrations, even with vigorous action to contain emissions?
  • How can the foundations be laid for a “climatic justice” (i.e. compensation for States that are victims of deregulation and have historically produced low emissions)?

Coordination


Patrice GEOFFRON

Member

Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Marc LANDRE

Editor in chief

Le Figaro

Biography

Speakers


Jean-Pierre CLAMADIEU

Chief Executive Officer & Member Of The Board Of Directors

Solvay

Biography

Guillaume FAURY

President

Airbus

Biography

Jean-Yves LE GALL

President

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales

Biography

Corinne LEPAGE

Former Minister of the Environment

France

Biography

Erik ORSENNA

Member

Académie Française

Biography

Børge OUSLAND

Polar explorer

Biography
All the speakers

Contributions

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