Newell, Peter and Taylor, Olivia (2020) Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective. Globalizations. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1474-7731

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Abstract

With fires, storms, social protests and climate strikes sweeping the world, 2019 should have been a tipping point in how the world responds to global heating. This was the backdrop to the COP25 climate change summit which took place in Madrid in December 2019. This paper assesses the outcomes of the meeting and the path towards the critically important meeting in Glasgow at the end of 2020. It analyses and explains the key points of contention over levels of ambition, the rules which should govern global carbon markets and sensitive issues such as loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change. The analysis is situated within a broader geopolitical and economic context of right-wing populism, deepening forms of marketisation and financialisation of responses to climate change and against a background of a world increasingly feeling the effects of the climate crisis.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	climate change; United Nations; Conference of the Parties
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Geography School of Global Studies > International Relations
Research Centres and Groups:	Centre for Global Political Economy
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Depositing User:	Peter Newell
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2020 08:11
Last Modified:	15 Aug 2021 01:00
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/89733

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