Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime
The UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of the problems and solutions. A new emergent frame of understanding could be detected in the press, which the author calls the ‘out-dated worldvi...
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description | The UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of the problems and solutions. A new emergent frame of understanding could be detected in the press, which the author calls the ‘out-dated worldview’ frame. This frame contains a critique of the clear-cut division between developing vs. developed countries from the 1992 Rio Convention, and may influence how we understand burden-sharing roles in a new global climate deal. In an eager attempt to include all major polluters within a new climate regime, there is a danger that the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ will be ignored, which may be an attempt to excuse the rich industrialized countries from their responsibility after 150 years of benefitting from fossil-fuel-driven development. |
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spelling | doaj.art-3e622ee6158b4bca9b603081f0b022fa2023-08-02T08:14:27ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192015-06-01361354910.1515/nor-2015-0004Worldview Struggles under a New Climate RegimeJohannessen Jill0Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of BergenThe UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of the problems and solutions. A new emergent frame of understanding could be detected in the press, which the author calls the ‘out-dated worldview’ frame. This frame contains a critique of the clear-cut division between developing vs. developed countries from the 1992 Rio Convention, and may influence how we understand burden-sharing roles in a new global climate deal. In an eager attempt to include all major polluters within a new climate regime, there is a danger that the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ will be ignored, which may be an attempt to excuse the rich industrialized countries from their responsibility after 150 years of benefitting from fossil-fuel-driven development.https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0004climate dealclimate negotiationscop17kyoto protocolclimate framingclimate representations |
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title | Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime |
title_full | Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime |
title_fullStr | Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime |
title_full_unstemmed | Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime |
title_short | Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime |
title_sort | worldview struggles under a new climate regime |
topic | climate deal climate negotiations cop17 kyoto protocol climate framing climate representations |
url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0004 |
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