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What is UNFCCC Conference

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence
United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC) is the international organization formed after the UN earth summit in Brazil to govern issues that relate to reducing global green house gases and mitigate the effects of climate change. It organizes conference of the parties where over 192 countries that have ratified the document gather to negotiate on issues of climate change.
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The Environmentalism and Politics of Climate Change: A Study of the Process of Global Convergence through UNFCCC Conferences
Moses Metumara Duruji (Covenant University, Nigeria) and Duruji-Moses Favour Urenma (Covenant University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch018
Abstract
This study examined the environmentalism and politics of climate change by undertaking a study of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) focusing on the Kyoto Protocol document and the UNFCCC conferences held after Kyoto that has centered on how to garner consensus on the way forward for the global community. The study also probed why the agreement at Kyoto, Japan started having problems when a change of government occurred in the United States with a Republican President that leaned towards the interests of big business most of whom would bear the most costs if the policies as articulated in the Kyoto protocols were to be executed and why the Democratic presidency of Barrack Obama has been slow in pushing forward the agreement at Kyoto. The study concluded that national political interests of the major powers seem to have stalled the implementation of the Kyoto protocol but a change in the dynamics of global leadership spectrum can have a significant impetus in producing an agreement on climate change.
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