Event Date: September 23, 2014 - 11:30 am
Location: FSS4007, 120 University Private, , Ottawa
CHRISTIAN HOLZ, University of Ottawa.
Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN).
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. A light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. The presentation starts at 11:45 a.m. The event ends at 12:45 p.m.
Audio:
[audio:http://web20.uottawa.ca/academic/socialsciences/cepi-cips/holz_2014-09-23.mp3]
Climate change mitigation necessitates effort sharing. As a result, one of the most crucial questions for climate change politics is: How can different political entities share the overall effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fairly? On the global scale, the overall effort must be shared between countries or groups of countries. In political federations, such as Canada, federation members must share the effort. Globally, the discussion on equitable effort sharing is mature and a number of operationalizations are available. Further, equity considerations can be guided by the equity principles contained in the UN climate convention. In Canada, this discussion is in its infancy at best but important lessons can be learned by examining the applicability of various approaches to international effort sharing to the Canadian federation. Holz will discuss early results of an application of one of such approach for Canadian effort sharing: The Equity Reference Framework approach is explicitly rooted in the convention equity principles and emphasizes the role of responsibility (for creating the climate crisis) and capacity (to act to overcome it).
Christian Holz is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s School of Political Studies. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he served as the Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, a network of nearly 100 organizations committed to working together to advance action on climate change at all levels of government in Canada. For the past ten years, he continues to be involved with Climate Action Network International, engaging in various roles related to their advocacy work at the UN climate change negotiations. His main research interests are the role of equity and fairness as enablers of ambitious action in domestic and international climate policy and the role of civil society in international climate change politics. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Glasgow for a thesis that combined an ethnography of climate change advocates at UN negotiations with further developing the social theory of the public sphere.
This event is part of the IPEN Lunchtime Seminar Series.