Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais - RBPI (Brazilian Journal of International Politics)
Global Climate Governance and Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
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Publication date: Jan 2012
The Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais - IBRI (Brazilian Institute of International Relations) is pleased to announce the publication of the Special Edition of Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais - RBPI (Brazilian Journal of International Politics), entitled "Global Climate Governance and Transition to a Low Carbon Economy", edited by Eduardo Viola, Full Professor of International Relations at the University of BrasÃlia and by Antônio Carlos Lessa, Associate Professor at the same institution and chief editor of RBPI.
The main objective of this special edition is to present the most recent perspectives on global governance for climate changes and the challenges for achieving a green economy.
This Special Edition contains the following papers:
- Editorial - Global climate governance and transition to a low-carbon economy: a special issue of RBPI, by Eduardo Viola & Antônio Carlos Lessa.
- Climate governance in an international system under conservative hegemony: the role of major power, por Eduardo Viola, MatÃas Franchini e ThaÃs Lemos Ribeiro.
- Climate paradox of the G-8: legal obligations, policy declarations and implementation gap, by Hans Guenter.
- The G-77, BASIC, and global climate governance: a new era in multilateral environmental negotiations, by: Kathryn Ann Hochstetler.
- Fighting climate change in the air: lessons from the EU directive on global aviation, by Nicole de Paula Domingos.
- An overview of domestic aspects in US climate policy, by Solange Reis Ferreira, Kelly Ferreira & Tullo Vigevani
- Dilemma of choice: China’s response to climate change, by Ming-Te Hung & Tung-Chieh Tsai
- The contribution of the European Union to global climate change governance: explaining the conditions for EU actorness, by Carolina B. Pavese & Diarmuid Torney.
- The Brazilian position on forests and climate change from 1997 to 2012: from veto to proposition, by Fernanda Viana de Carvalho.
- Governance of global climate change in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Amazonian municipalities of Brazil, by Cristina Inoue.
