Public Diplomacy and Bridging in the Climate Change Debate: Assessing South Korea's Leadership Role in New Middle Power Forums

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Pandey ◽  
Iain Watson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Middle Power

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE LESSONS OF THE KIMBERLEY PROCESS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-79
Author(s):  
Martin-Joe Ezeudu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Kimberley Process ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
Governance Choices ◽  
Alternative Regime

There has been a great deal of academic discourse about policy and governance choices embedded in the UNFCCC-based regimes for Climate Change action, and they point to the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of such regimes, which is often attributed to the fact that they hinge on the political authority of State actors and lack meaningful enforcement mechanisms. Against this backdrop, this paper argues that an alternative regime may be needed; and that for an effective regulatory framework for Climate Change action to emerge there needs to be a regulatory imperativeness similar to that upon which the Kimberley Process was created, where Non-State Actors play a leadership role. It also argues that in addition to regulatory imperativeness, the making and enforcement of the Kimberley Process provides helpful lessons towards crafting a more effective Climate Change remedial regime.

Growing the ERM Energy and Climate Change Practice Through Knowledge Sharing

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 241-250
Author(s):  
Susanne Etti ◽  
Karen Perkinton ◽  
Bonnie Cheuk ◽  
John Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Service Offering ◽  
Training Service

Given the scale of the climate change crisis and the small window available in which to take action, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) has accelerated and supported the growth of the Energy and Climate Change practice by investing in training, service offering development, sales support, and knowledge management. This paper outlines the innovative approach that the Energy and Climate Change (E&CC) community of practice (CoP) has taken over the last two years to accelerate the growth of the practice using a holistic approach in the promotion of knowledge sharing at all levels across the company. The approach has shown that there are key factors that contribute to the success of the E&CC CoP. Central to this success is the close partnership and relationships between the knowledge sharing facilitator and the business leaders. The approach also demonstrates that the leader must take an active leadership role and spend sufficient time with members of the CoP.

scholarly journals Climate Change and its Increasing Impacts in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhav Karki ◽  
Pradip Mool ◽  
Arun Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Global Events ◽  
Big Rivers ◽  
The Himalaya

There is a general agreement that Climate Change impacting Nepal rather disproportionately compared to its size and its own meagre contribution of the green house gases. However, given its location between two rapidly growing economies of India and China, Nepal cannot escape the rapidly increasing influence of climate and global changes. The rapidly retreating glaciers (average retreat of more than 30 m/year), rapid rise in temperature (>0.06°C), erratic rainfalls and increase in frequency of extreme events such as floods and drought like situation are some of the effects Nepal is facing during the last few years. Most of the big rivers of Nepal are glacier-fed and its main resources of water and hydroelectricity will be seriously affected due to the ongoing changes in glacier reserves, snowfall and natural hazards. Nepal has to prepare itself to try and mitigate these effects if possible and if not adapt to them to reduce their impacts on our lives and livelihoods. Nepal is largely a mountainous country and current indications are that the mountain regions are more vulnerable due to increased warming trends as well as extreme changes in altitude over small distances. These alarming trends not only make Nepal's major sectors of economy such as agriculture, tourism and energy more vulnerable but also endanger the health, safety and wellbeing of Nepali people. Biodiversity - the other important resources of Nepal is also being affected as invasive species will spread fast and useful medicinal, food and nutrition related plants may disappear. Climate change is becoming already dangerous to our survival and we have to do everything possible to prevent it being catastrophic to us. The globally accepted strategy to contain disastrous climate change impacts is Adaptation and Mitigation. For a least developed country such as Nepal, adaptation should be the priority. Nepal is currently preparing National Action Plan on Adaptation (NAPA) which should be made as comprehensive and topical as possible. Well coordinated, quick and serious implementation of NAPA will be extremely important to mitigate and adapt to the growing impacts of climate change in Nepal. Nepal's central location in the Himalaya portends the fact that it is the prime target country of climate change impacts and calls for it to play a leadership role at least in showing political will and playing a responsible role in global events such as the COP-15 at Copenhagen.   DOI: 10.3126/init.v3i0.2425 The Initiation Vol.3 2009 p.30-37

Combating Ineffectiveness: Climate Change Bandwagoning and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Conliffe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Political Feasibility ◽  
Regime Overlap

This article examines the role of linkage politics in revitalizing the largely ineffective UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). I argue that the UNCCD Secretariat has taken a leadership role in driving a regime linkage agenda that has focused disproportionately on linkages to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By comparing the UNCCD Secretariat's attempts to build desertification-mitigation and desertification-adaptation linkages, I propose three criteria for predicting whether regime linkages are likely to benefit source regimes (here the UNCCD): the linkage's contribution to source governance goals; the credibility of knowledge presented by the source regime; and the linkage's political feasibility for the target regime. This analysis shows secretariats to be important actors in linkage politics whose actions can lead to both beneficial and harmful outcomes for the regimes they are intended to serve. Finally, by asking whether desertification issues that overlap with climate change might be better addressed under the UNFCCC, I question when regime overlap indicates regime redundancy and warrants regime death.

Multinational security coalitions and the limits of middle power activism in the Middle East: the Saudi case

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rory Miller ◽  
Sarah Cardaun
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Security Affairs ◽  
Common Vision

Abstract This article examines Saudi Arabia's decision in recent years to use novel and hitherto unexplored informal alliance formats, which we term multinational security coalitions (MSCs). This development was initiated by the new Saudi political leadership under King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who have a much greater inclination to pursue proactive foreign and security policies than their predecessors. However, it will be highlighted that beyond the priorities of individual personalities, this shift in Saudi Arabia's behaviour occurred against the backdrop of significant changes in the existing security environment, including the perceived withdrawal of the United States from the security affairs of the region during the presidency of Barack Obama, and crucially also Saudi Arabia's frustration over the failure of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to develop into a viable security mechanism. The article begins with the introduction of the key ideas relating to institutional design, the conceptual framework for this study. Section two outlines the most important reasons for Saudi Arabia's choice of the MSC format. The third section examines the strengths of the MSC format-especially informality, the resulting low entry-thresholds and the low risk of entrapment-that provided Saudi Arabia with partial and temporary success in recruiting coalition partners and thus bolstering its leadership role. The final section demonstrates, however, that ultimately MSCs are not a panacea. The informality of MSCs that makes it easy for the pivotal state to assemble a coalition also makes it hard for it to forge, and enforce, a common vision.

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