EOAS Special Seminar -- 9/14/2018
Yannick Glermarec from United Nations Women
Seminar Title: "Reconciling National Interests and Global Climate Justice to Achieve the Paris Agreement"

Cosponsored by EOAS, The Dept of Ecology Evolution & Natural Resources, Dept of Environmental Sciences, Dept of Human Ecology, and the Rutgers Climate Institute.

Abstract: The Paris Agreement on climate change revolves around nationally determined contributions (NDC). This ‘’bottom-up” approach
side steps the core disagreements on how to distribute greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions across countries that
hampered earlier efforts to reach a global deal on climate change. It acknowledges that the ambition of the global climate response
will be determined by Parties’ understanding of their national interests. The aggregate effort currently envisaged in NDCs is
insufficient to avoid disastrous climate change. Climate stability is a global public good and Parties will ratchet up their mitigation
efforts only if it is individually rational to do so. To increase the ambition of NDCs, it will be essential to convince Parties that the
short-term benefits of robust national climate action outweigh its costs.
Low carbon technologies are increasingly competitive and can generate significant net development benefits. However,
optimizing net development benefits of climate policies is anything but trivial. They vary depending on local settings and do not
benefit all equally. To be effective, climate policies must be perceived as just. Climate justice links human rights, development
and climate regimes to make climate action a development win for all. A climate justice perspective provides a normative,
analytical and procedural framework to assess ex-ante potential net development benefits and to legitimize action to realize them.
Far from being antinomic, national interests and climate justice goals can be mutually supportive.

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