Modifying the 2° C target: climate policy objectives in the contested terrain of scientific policy advice, political preferences, and rising emissions
Abstract: In the 20 years since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted, progress in global climate policy has been modest. Annual greenhouse gas emissions have increased by over one-third since 1992. Acute conflicts of interest remain a persistent obstacle. One of the few points of general consensus in the international community is on the overarching objective of limiting the temperature increase to two degrees Celsius. If one is to accept key recommendations from scientific policy advisors, emissions will have to be reduced significantly between 2010 and 2020 to stay below the 2°C limit. Yet given that global emissions trends are moving in the opposite direction and will be impossible to reverse in a matter of a few years, this goal is patently unrealistic. And since a target that is obviously unattainable cannot fulfill either a positive symbolic function or a productive governance function, the primary target of international climate policy will have to be modified. Th
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Die Modifikation des 2-Grad-Ziels: klimapolitische Zielmarken im Spannungsfeld von wissenschaftlicher Beratung, politischen Präferenzen und ansteigenden Emissionen
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 30 S.
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Englisch
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begutachtet
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SWP Research Paper ; Bd. 5/2013
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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2013
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-364546
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 1:42 PM CET
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- Geden, Oliver
- Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Time of origin
- 2013
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