Environmental Advocacy
Vannak Koiy
Learning Spaces Technician @ University of Oklahoma | BS Civil Engineering & BA Mathematics
Climate change is a global challenge for the commons. Its causes – man-made greenhouse gas emissions – and its impacts are spread not equally across the international system, transcending the traditional borders and jurisdictions of the states of the international political system. As a result, it is particularly difficult to establish causality in objective terms. The definitions of 'historical responsibility' and 'right to growth' are used frequently in debates on climate change – but their sedimentation is minimal. These claims may be especially problematic due to the assignment of these principles to individual states, neglecting the host of non-state entities operating within and across national borders – all of which share a degree of accountability. Its basic point is that, among a number of national and international , it remains the state that can drive a viable climate change policy. Without the heaviness of the state and the capacity of the state as a national body to inspire behavioral change, neither the daunting scale nor the imminent time horizon of climate mitigation and adaptation is feasible. As the logic behind the CoP15 Paris Agreement has been understood, in a world structured by a system of states, the State remains an effective focal point for these national and international coordination acts in relation to other states. My argument is actually that the state must constitute the vital agent of political change for subsequent decades ahead, both nationally and internationally. At a national level, it can organize and steer fiscal, monetary and sector-policies like those of energy, transport, agriculture, the communications industry and housing in such a way that both businesses and consumers are motivated to shift behavior towards a carbon-neutral society. This model of the state is one among a regulated free enterprise that uses the coordination of state direction with market dynamism to effect broad social change. Governments respond to markets as they plan ahead with regard to climate change (the rapid fall in the price of solar and wind energy...) and much of the new green infrastructure will be locally distributed and assembled. That said, governments are the sole governance body with appropriate fiscal and monetary tools to set up the rebuilding of national economies with new strategic priorities; to steer and to guarantee concerted action across sectors; and to guarantee, In turn, that this action is underpinned by the principles of ‘a just transition'. If the timeline to a 50 percent reduction of carbon emissions is 2030, then the state must so organize and steer that solutions to global climate change are integrated. Climate action requires political action precisely because the size of the task, as well as the time during which it must be accomplished, cannot be met without political action.
Keeping forests intact also helps prevent floods and drought by regulating regional rainfall. And since many indigenous and forest peoples believe in tropical forests for their livelihoods, investments in reducing deforestation provide them with the resources they have for sustainable development without deforestation. Deforestation is foremost to global climate change.
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