[gep-ed] Mid-COP webinar

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone!

I'm doing a webinar tomorrow to recap week 1 and look ahead to week 2. It's
not the most conducive time for those in North America, but if you
register, you'll be notified when the recording is up.
https://www.iisd.org/events/cop-28-halfway-point-webinar

Happy to answer any and all questions as well (if I can!).

Very best,
Jen

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[gep-ed] Systematic literature reviews

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello,

Does anyone have a great example, or guidance on how to do a systematic
review of the literature? I have a student that will prepare a "how to"
guide over the summer, which will hopefully help undergrads and MAs learn a
bit about the method.

As always, happy to compile and share the results.

Many thanks.
All the best,
Jen

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[gep-ed] Potential network of pollution-focused scholars

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello GEPED-ers,

There are negotiations underway (just) on establishing a science-policy
panel for pollution: think of an IPCC for chemicals and wastes. Much is up
in the air - notably the scope. But one thing seems clear already - there
is far more input and coordination by physical scientists than social
scientists on the panel's design, inputs, outputs etc.

I'm thinking of putting together a loose network of social scientists
(broadly construed) interested in chemicals, wastes, or pollution more
generally - the overall aim will be to coordinate our work in a way that
responds and provides input to this panel.

If you're interested, could you please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAGRrlPEt8aFIch19K1rgWjV1Ah5ttov4pDk8CzdqMk/edit?usp=sharing


If you have any experience in this sort of thing, I'd welcome any input.
I'm certain that I don't know what I'm getting myself into.

All the best,
Jen

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Re: [gep-ed] Google Doc ESS Panels for ISA 2023 - Montréal, Québec, Canada

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear Prakash and colleagues,

Many thanks for the google doc - it's an excellent idea! I added a panel on
dynamism in global institutions. I'd welcome papers that conceive of
dynamism broadly, and happy to change the abstract to fit others' interests.

All the best,
Jen

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 1:02 PM Kashwan, Prakash 
wrote:

> Dear GEP Colleagues:
>
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>
> As always, the ISA 2023 CFP has a  June 1 deadline.
>
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> If you’d like, please use the following Google Doc to help coordinate
> panel proposals/CFP that several GEP-ed/ESS members have floated. To avoid
> the bot-take over, it may be helpful not to share the link in public or on
> other electronic-lists, with large memberships. It should be okay to share
> this link in smaller close-knit circles.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14RBcFfuDsPunuwXZHi8BRJYe_ENlugqZCSOHLP-FdiI/edit?usp=sharing
>
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>
> More broadly, I’d love to hear any ideas and suggestions you may have
> about ESS programming for ISA 2023.
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>
> Best wishes,
>
> Prakash
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> Prakash Kashwan, Ph.D. (Google Scholar
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> Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
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> corner of human life. Catastrophic climate change, an ever-morphing global
> pandemic, widening democratic decline, rising economic inequality,
> increasing violence, and worries of geopolitical rivalry and war join
> deeply entrenched systemic racism and sexism to create a toxic cocktail.
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> repressive police responses to social protests across many parts of the
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[gep-ed] Environmental Politics job at Swansea

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone,

There is a job in environmental politics at Swansea University. I'm told
that the focus on policy analysis is secondary - they would like someone
who can contribute to a public policy programme, but they are mostly keen
to have someone that focuses on environmental issues.

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swansea/current-vacancies/details/?nPostingId=110464=139136=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD=UK=suext


I can't speak to Swansea U directly, but happy to sing the praises of
beautiful Wales.

Best,
Jen

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Re: [Ext] Re: [gep-ed] Tragedy of the Commons

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for the wonderful discussion and resources. I've made a slightly
different choice on this question: I chose not to directly teach the work
of a racist, who was also wrong. I agree there are insights for
environmental politics, but they are covered by prisoner's dilemmas,
Ostrom's work on the commons, and other ideas cited above.

I do this for two reasons. First, I ask my students if they have heard the
phrase "tragedy of the commons" or the basic argument (after I outline it).
Maybe one student has. In other words, I would be introducing this phrase -
and all its baggage - into their repertoire, and perpetuating its continued
use in various circles. Second, I'm not comfortable giving a diverse
student population a reading with such problematic racist language. A lot
could be done to prep students and to debrief with them, but I've made the
decision to not put my students in that situation in the first place and
risk further marginalizing some of them from academia.

I talk to my students that this is an idea that they may hear about. That
it's become a popular stand in for many of the complex ideas that we
discuss in class. I explain that when people use it, they strip it of its
ideological foundations / project, and forget that it's empirically wrong.
I provide some of the resources already cited above, but I do not direct
them to the original work.

I don't claim this is the best response to this difficult issue, but it's
the one I've decided for the time being.
All the best,
Jen

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:35 PM 'Jonathan Rosenberg' via gep-ed <
gep-ed@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Dimitris makes a great point.  On a personal note--I am currently teaching
> 2 courses:  Environmental Politics and Policy, and International
> Development.  It is instructive to consider how differently Theodore
> Roosevelt figures in the historical background for each of them.
>
> Best,
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:29 PM Stevis,Dimitris <
> dimitris.ste...@colostate.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ron and all:
>>
>> A very interesting discussion that cannot be limited to Hardin’s
>> misreading of history- as this old poem suggests -
>> http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/“stealing-common-goose”#sthash.B7yCrydB.dpbs
>>
>>
>> The environmental movement, in the US and other colonial countries, has a
>> significant share of racist, eugenisist etc founders, such as Muir, Madison
>> Grant,  Osborn Sr (Museum of Natural History), Julian Huxley (UNESCO) and
>> others https://orionmagazine.org/article/conservation-and-eugenics/ and
>> https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history For
>> a longer account see
>> https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/border-walls-gone-green
>>
>> It may useful for IEP to address these wider genealogy and how it has
>> influenced the framing and study of environmental politics, certainly for
>> the older amongst us. Focusing on Hardin is necessary but should not
>> obscure this broader and painful context within which he acquired
>> legitimacy. This is all the more timely as this story is used by the
>> neoliberal right to criticize environmentalism as a whole -
>> https://capitalresearch.org/article/a-darker-shade-of-green-environmentalisms-origins-in-eugenics/
>>
>> Perhaps there is an ISA workshop in this.
>>
>> D
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2020, at 8:58 PM, Rafael Friedmann 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I’d like to see examples of how we’ve been able to effectively counter
>> the interests of the few to continue with Business-as-usual
>> overexploitation or exclusion of externalities and limited analyses of
>> broader systemic impacts. This is the crux more than how much we liked or
>> not TOC and Hardin. Give me solutions! Give me examples of what has worked
>> – but on a massive scale—which is what is needed to actively and
>> successfully tackle the broad impacts we are seeing and will otherwise
>> experience with global climate change.
>>
>> Rafael
>> *From: *DG Webster 
>> *Sent: *Monday, August 31, 2020 10:13 AM
>> *To: *Ronald Mitchell 
>> *Cc: *GEP-Ed List 
>> *Subject: *Re: [gep-ed] RE: Tragedy of the Commons
>>
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>> Thanks for raising the discussion. I was horrified when I first read the
>> full version of Hardin't ToC piece, having only read excerpts in various
>> courses. My last book, Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries, is
>> essentially a long, drawn-out refutation of the ToC as the fundamental
>> problem in fisheries governance. It's probably too fisheries-centric for
>> most but the core concept of power disconnects links up Ostrom, Buck, and
>> other great suggestions here. In short: When the people making decisions
>> about resource use (through markets, government, etc.) are able to insulate
>> themselves from the costs of overexploitation, power disconnects are wide
>> and environmental damage will be high. When the people making decisions
>> about resource use are vulnerable to those costs, then power disconnects
>> are 

[gep-ed] Pedagogy for Sustainability - google doc

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone,

The GEP-Ed community certainly delivered. Here is a list of the sources
people put forward. I've given everyone with the link the ability to
comment. So if there is more to add in any respect, please leave a comment
and I'll add the citation, text, etc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gR1kq06yp4R_9WoxrhSv0YNhp5L9ve6hSyQiEmY_ccs/edit?usp=sharing


A few people mentioned online simulations (and Beth and Ron's messages are
also in this vein). Is there interest in putting together a database of
such resources? I'm happy to set something up.

All the best,
Jen

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[gep-ed] Pedagogy for sustainability

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone,

I write with an ask - and the usual offer to send around the suggestions.
I'm working on a chapter loosely titled "Teaching in a time of
environmental crises" for an upcoming Oxford Handbook on pedagogy.

Any suggestions you have of writing or projects related to pedagogy and
sustainability would be greatly appreciated.

Very best,
Jen

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Re: [gep-ed] what is going on in the world?

[Jennifer Allan]

Hi everyone,

There is a media effect here of course. The Conversation UK said no to a
pitch I made about holding a virtual COP (a ridiculous idea being floated
here in the UK by people that have clearly never been to a COP). Despite
this idea being considered in the Guardian and Independent, the Environment
Editor said "there's little on climate these days because we're all doing
COVID."

Hopefully BAU can start to re-emerge in the coming months.
Best,
Jen

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gernot Wagner  wrote:

> Indeed plenty of other news still happening -- from locust plagues in East
> Africa to 65% oil price drops to continued Trumpian shenanigans.
>
> All that said, *shouldn't *Covid refocus the sort of stuff we are, in
> fact, following?
>
> I realize all of us experience Covid-19 rather differently -- full
> disclosure: I'm married to an NYU Langone/Bellevue doc, a place that'll get
> swamped with thousands of cases in the coming days. But I'd think up to
> ~30% US unemployment this quarter, ~50% quarterly GDP drop, etc. etc. -- to
> say nothing of, well, people dying -- would surely change what we do.
>
> There's the immediate term: None of us should pretend to be
> epidemiologists -- that's what Twitter is for -- but all of us have some
> relevant skills. E.g. a couple enviro/natural resource economist colleagues
> just wrote a paper within a week
>  on critical
> child care needs of medical staff. Their prior medical/child care
> expertise: none. They just had the idea and knew how to get and analyze the
> data.
>
> Then, of course, there's the longer term.
>
> We've all heard the Milton (& Rose!) Friedman quote around how actions
> taken in a crisis “depend on the ideas that are lying around.” Well, that
> Friedman quote doesn't go the other way. I trust there'll be plenty of
> ideas generated B.C. (Before Covid) that will withstand the test of time.
>
> Many won't.
>
> We won't all agree what that means. In fact, I trust very few of us have
> spent much time on that so far (see: saving lives, now). But e.g. science
> denial might look rather different A.C., after millions having experienced
> some of the effects first-hand.
>
> I realize it's easier to teach sunk cost to undergrads than to go through
> it oneself and purge that multi-year research project, but I'd venture to
> say that, say, the B.C. results of that perfectly designed cross-country
> survey on attitudes toward revenue-neutral carbon taxes will feel more like
> a historical case study A.C.
>
> *Gernot Wagner, **New York University*
> gwagner.com
> *Keep in touch: *gwagner.com/#newsletter
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Pam Chasek 
> wrote:
>
>> And for those of you focused on domestic environmental issues:
>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-environment-coronavirus_n_5e755cf7c5b63c3b6490a703?fbclid=IwAR3k--1qKMx-PzdUgqjedVCyrm3aeb2TBTA2v9ahOPp6p456qzrWXy6LYk4
>>
>> Pam
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 8:32 PM DG Webster 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> BBC and al Jazeera are slightly better at tracking other news, but not
>>> by much.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:08 PM Wendy Jackson 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 To answer your second question, I think it depends on the government
 department in question. I work for a foreign ministry (NZ), and almost all
 hands are on deck for COVID-19 response. Most countries are having massive
 consular emergencies, trying to get nationals back home, responding to
 questions from in-country non-nationals, navigating all of the border
 complexities (think of people transiting countries, families with mixed
 residency status, etc.). I cannot speak for all governments, but here this
 effort is requiring resource from across the business. This has an impact
 on all work being done; we have people backfilling, and backfilling the
 backfilling, but some work is indefinitely postponed. Every govt department
 will be affected in its own way (sorting economic packages for business;
 dealing with tourists who are still here; sorting out school policy;
 ensuring food and other supply chains are stable; etc.).

 I work on a multilateral desk (UN relationship management), and BAU has
 slowed to a trickle. As Pam noted, UN meetings are being scaled down,
 postponed, or cancelled. Some processes related to those meetings (e.g.,
 informals, regional consultations) are happening, although at a slower
 pace. Multilats are also shifting their focus to COVID-19 matters - how
 this manifests will vary by each agency.

 Apologies for writing in haste but hopefully a view from a government
 is helpful.

 Wendy

 On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:38 PM Peter M Haas 
 wrote:

> Has anyone got any suggested feeds that cover all the other issues
> that we used to study?  Has the media become corona obsessive, or have
> governments and other actors 

[gep-ed] New report on State of Global Environmental Governance

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear colleagues,

This only partly counts as self promotion, but nevertheless the usual
apologies apply.

The ENB team has put together a brief report on the State of Global
Enviornmental Governance in 2019. We look at the hits, misses, linkages
(er, regime complexes), SDGs, and what’s to come in 2020. It’s written with
the non-expert in mind so this may be a good teaching resource.

https://www.iisd.org/library/environmental-governance-2019

All the best,
Jen

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[gep-ed] Donors in global governance

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello geped-ers,

A couple years ago, someone shared an exercise they conduct with their
students to teach about the role of donors. Of course, I can't find it now
when I need it.

I'm looking for an exercise for my activism class, to help illustrate how
donors' priorities and demands for measurable results can influence NGO and
social movement strategies. Happy to compile and send the list back to
everyone.

All the best,
Jen




Jen Iris Allan
Lecturer, Cardiff University


Allan, J. I. (2019). Dangerous Incrementalism of the Paris Agreement. *Global
Environmental Politics*, *19*(1), 4-11.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/glep_a_00488

Allan, J. I. (2018). Seeking Entry: Discursive Hooks and NGOs in Global
Climate Politics. *Global Policy*, *9*(4), 560-569.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10./1758-5899.12586

Allan, J.I. and Hadden, J. (2017). Exploring the Framing Power of NGOs in
Global Climate Politics. *Environmental Politics 26 (4)*: 600-620.
*http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2017.1319017*


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Re: [gep-ed] Gender & job talks

[Jennifer Allan]

Hello everyone,

Stacy, thank you for sending the gender & job talks article. Sad, but good
to see attention to the issue.

This useful handout circulated Twitter a little while ago: it helps counter
the implicit biases that can sneak into reference. So we can feel that we
have some tools at our disposal. letters:
http://www.csw.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/csw_2015-10-20_lorbias_pdf_0.pdf

Best,
Jen



On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Stacy VanDeveer 
wrote:

> GEP colleagues,
> While not strictly about global environmental politics, it seemed too
> important not to share.
> I’m quite sure it will be of interest to many of you, and to many doctoral
> students and post-docs who must endure the job market.
> http://www.broomcenter.ucsb.edu/sites/www.broomcenter.
> ucsb.edu/files/broom_docs/socsci-06-00029%20-%20Blair-
> Loy%20et%20al%20March%202017.pdf?utm_content=buffereb586&
> utm_medium=social_source=twitter.com_campaign=buffer
>
> --SV
> --
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> Professor & PhD Program Director, Global Governance & Human Security
> Dept. of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance
> McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies
> University of Massachusetts Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125
> stacy.vandev...@umb.edu
>
> GGHS Info:  https://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/globalgov_phd
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Carleton University

Team Leader
*Earth Negotiations Bulletin*
International Institute for Sustainable Development


Allan, J.I. and Hadden, J. (2017). Exploring the Framing Power of NGOs in
Global Climate Politics. *Environmental Politics 26 (4)*: 600-620.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2017.1319017

Allan, J.I. and Dauvergne, P. (2013). The Global South in Environmental
Negotiations:The Politics of Coalitions in REDD+. *Third World Quarterly 34
(8)*: 1307-1322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.831536

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[gep-ed] ISA Panel on chemicals and wastes governance & activism - call for papers

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear gep-ed community,

We are organizing a panel on global governance of chemicals and wastes
management (including global to local links), and are looking for another
paper. Please see below for the abstract, papers, and other info:

Title: Mobilizing Change in Chemicals and Wastes Governance


Abstract The governance of hazardous chemicals and wastes is highly
dynamic, by institutional design and through actors’ efforts to push for
greater protections for human health and the environment. In this cluster
of regimes, several have routinized change to add new chemicals or waste
streams to the conventions in response to parties’ concerns or experts’
recommendations. Three chemicals and wastes conventions – the Basel,
Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions – are engaged in a “synergies” process
to bring the conventions closer together in substantive and procedural
terms. Further, the Minamata Convention awaits entry into force and into
this dynamic cluster. This panel explores actors’ responses to this dynamic
institutional environment at local and global scales. Some civil society
actors engage across the cluster, others specialize, while others ignore
major issues such as e-waste entirely. How does the (at times explicit)
experimentation and evolving development of cooperative rules and norms in
the cluster influence actors’ strategies? Does global change provide new
platforms for local actors? Through exploring the uneven patterns of
engagement of actors, and the consequences of experimentation, this panel
seeks to add to our understanding of global environmental governance while
highlighting the importance of chemicals and wastes issues.


Chair: Pam Chasek

Discussant: Kate O'Neill


Papers

1. Local activism using global information: the case of PFOA. Pia Kohler,
Williams College

2. NGO Dynamics at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Mercury.
Jessica Templeton, LSE

3. Skipping this one: Big ENGO Silence on E-Waste. Jen Iris Allan,
University of British Columbia

4. Experimenting with SuperCOPs: David Downie, Jessica Templeton and Jen
Iris Allan

5. You


Best regards,

Jen

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Re: [gep-ed] Paris Agreement THIS close!!!

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear colleagues,

We are indeed close. I've heard that India and Malaysia are on board,
albeit reluctantly. The lead negotiator for Malaysia was just heard saying
that we have a deal "unless the US objects to their own draft."

You can watch the proceedings here:
http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop21/channels/plenary-1
(It is available in English and Spanish, see the top right corner).

Best,
Jen

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Radoslav S Dimitrov <
radoslav.dimit...@uwo.ca> wrote:

> Dear collegues,
>
> We are hours from adopting the Paris Agreement. Final meeting begins in 30
> minutes! Many main players have accepted the text. The island delegations
> sang a song in their meeting. We keep fingers crossed that India, Malaysia,
> Venezuela, some other Latin countries will, too. (They are ones most likely
> to oppose it.)
>
> A few key elements:
>
> * Goal of limiting temperature rise "well below 2 degrees" and "pursue
> efforts to limit to 1.5 degrees"
> * No quantitative targets for 2050 but peak emissions as soon as possible
> * Compromise language: "Each Party shall prepare, communicate and maintain
> successive nationally determined mitigation contributions it intends to
> achieve"
> * Ensure increase in ambition of national policies over time
> * Fairly strong monitoring and reporting of national actions
> * Finance from all, with differentiation: Commitments on finance from
> developed countries while developing countries like China are "encouraged
> to provide financial support voluntarily"
>
> Watch top story in English from French television:
> http://www.france24.com/en/20151212-draft-agreement-ready-paris-climate-summit-un-officials-say
>
>
> Stay tuned!
>
> Rado Dimitrov
>
> Radoslav S. Dimitrov
> Associate professor
> Department of Political Science
> University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario
> Canada N6A 5C2
> Tel. +1 519-661-2111 ext. 85023
>
>
> --
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> Associate Professor
> Department of Political Science
> University of Western Ontario
> Social Science Centre
> London, Ontario
> Canada N6A 5C2
> Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023
> Fax +1(519) 661-3904
> Email: rdimi...@uwo.ca
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[gep-ed] Civil disobedience at Paris COP

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear geped colleagues,

I have heard from several sources that "massive civil disobedience" is
planned for the meeting in Paris. It will start slow, with a large march.
By the end of the conference, several groups are mobilizing to "Seattle"
the Paris talks.

I know several of you are planning to attend yourself, or to take students.
Please remember to keep up to date with the news, and relevant twitter
feeds for the latest. Ask your students to stay in groups, especially
during the final days of the conference. Security is expected to be very
tight, especially after the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

Best,
Jen

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[gep-ed] Paris Knowledge Bridge - educational climate videos

[Jennifer Allan]

Dear gep-ed colleagues,


Here is the link to the Paris Knowledge Bridge Videos produced by IISD:
http://www.iisd.ca/paris-knowledge-bridge/.


The content derives from 60 interviews with heads of UN agencies,
negotiators and civil society. Together, the videos are an excellent
introduction to international climate governance, especially for third or
fourth year undergraduates. They will learn straight from those making (and
remaking) international climate policy.


You’ll see links to relevant primary sources and academic sources as “pins”
in the control bar. If you are interested in working with others who teach
global climate governance to add further academic and other sources to the
videos, please let me know (jennif...@iisd.org).


The videos are (and will always be) free. Please share far and wide! There
is an embed code if you wish to put them on your course site for easy
access.


We’d love to hear how you use these videos and your experience using them
in your classroom. Please feel free to pass and feedback onto us. We’re
considering making a series of videos for various regimes, so any feedback
you have will be extremely useful.



Best regards,

Jen Allan


*PhD Candidate, Liu Scholar*

*University of British Columbia*


*Team Leader, Writer, Video Producer*

*International Institute for Sustainable Development – Reporting Services*

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[gep-ed] Upcoming resource for teaching climate governance

[Jennifer Allan]

*Dear geped colleagues,As everyone prepares or revises their syllabi for
the coming year, I want to flag an upcoming resource for teaching
international climate change governance. Below is also a request for
suggestions for publications or references to include in the video’s
annotations. We’re also exploring ways to make the videos interactive - any
ideas are more than welcome.The International Institute of Sustainable
Development – Reporting Services (IISDRS, the publisher of the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin) is producing a series of four, fifteen-minute videos
called The Paris Knowledge Bridge: Unpacking International Climate
Governance. The videos discuss: - the history of the UNFCCC;- the pillars
of climate governance;- the science and economics; and,- the road to Paris
 beyondThese videos are unique because representatives from states, civil
society and UN agencies who are actively involved in creating global
climate policies and politics explain the past, present and future of
climate governance. We have interviews with 60 people, from Assistant
Secretary General Janos Pasztor and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner,
frontline delegates drafting the new agreement’s text and civil society
working to influence policy. There are cameos by a well-known geped
colleague...The videos will be available for free on the IISDRS website by
August 15. I will send a note to geped when they are complete.IISD is using
a unique video platform to host these video that allows for the videos to
be annotated with links to academic books and articles as well as primary
sources, such as policy statements, official documentation, and our own
Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of the UNFCCC, IPCC, and other
meetings. If you have suggestions for sources that you regularly use in
your courses, or you find helpful to teach climate governance, please email
me at jennif...@iisd.org jennif...@iisd.org. Please also feel free to
reach out to discuss innovative ways to use this platform.Many thanks! I
look forward to sharing the links to the videos with you all very
soon!Best,Jen AllanPhD Candidate, Liu ScholarUniversity of British
ColumbiaTeam Leader, Writer, “Showrunner”Earth Negotiations
BulletinInternational Institute for Sustainable Development – Reporting
Services*​

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