Climate change as a transformation challenge : a new climate policy paradigm?
- The Paris Agreement marks a milestone in international climate policy. Though, the positive appraisal was not unanimous. This article will argue that the Paris Agreement embraces a new paradigm. Climate change is no longer seen as a clear-cut environmental problem, nor as a developmental issue, but as a challenge to fundamentally transform global societies. While criticism through the lens of the former paradigms is worthwhile, the Paris Agreement should be acknowledged as a pacemaker for the transformation processes that lay ahead of us.
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| Document Type: | Peer-Reviewed Article |
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| Author: | Lukas HermwilleORCiDGND |
| URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-62761 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.25.1.6 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Source Title (English): | Gaia |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 19 |
| Last Page: | 22 |
| Divisions: | Energie-, Verkehrs- und Klimapolitik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 320 Politik |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence: |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung |
