Abstract
Multilateral arrangements have been a talking thing for decades now. As the globalization process unleashed nations’ potential to converge on matters of concern, there has been a spiraling increase in agreements and arrangements. Climate change is the buzzword in multilateral arrangements now. In the recent past, startling changes in environment have caught the attention of countries, both developed and developing, to take a call of action. The present discourse seeks to understand multilateral arrangements’ itinerary in facing global climate change.
Highlights
As Barack Obama rightly said, “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent threat of a changing climate (The White House, 2014).” Climate change has taken over as the “first thing first” in the agenda of multilateral organizations and arrangements
Article 1(2) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.”
The extension of members involved in the UNFCCC from 154 to 194 is an astounding achievement in itself
Summary
As Barack Obama rightly said, “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent threat of a changing climate (The White House, 2014).” Climate change has taken over as the “first thing first” in the agenda of multilateral organizations and arrangements. As the global civilization underwent transition from a primitive society to an industrial-based one, countless innovations and inventions brought into fore a whole lot of new production functions These involved generous employment of coal and fossil fuels and the usage just multiplied with centuries passing by. For the whole of North America, the United States’ share of carbon emission was an astounding 89 percent, dropping by one percentage point in 2017 vis-à-vis 2016.The drop in coal consumption by the United States as evident in Table 1 and thereby a reduction in carbon diffusion is reflected on account of an increase in use of renewable sources of power generation. Though the world is endowed with numerous multilateral arrangements for climate change policy formulation, there exist in the vicinity of bilateral and regional trade agreements consistent efforts to mitigate climate catastrophe triggered by extensive fossil fuel deployment
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