INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN OR A NEW INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AREA? Cover Image

ULUSLARARASI İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ MÜZAKERELERİ: ÇEVRE DUYARLILIĞI MI YOKSA YENİ BİR ULUSLARARASI REKABET ALANI MI?
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN OR A NEW INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AREA?

Author(s): İlhan Sağsen
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Political Ecology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Rasim Özgür DÖNMEZ
Keywords: Climate Change; Climate Change Negotiations; Actors’ Policies And Positions in Climate Change Negotiations; Chess Game;

Summary/Abstract: Environmental topics have appeared more and more frequently on the international agenda over the last three decades although this subject has been drawn attention to technical experts working on this issue before being popular. Since the last half of the 20th century, climate change has been known as the most important issue in the environmental topics and this issue occupied the agenda of international community. Indeed, it is an issue of continuous and long-lasting debates in the negotiations of international actors. Within this context, this article argues that in climate change negotiations, countries act like a chess player who is trying to make moves that will bring the most profitable position. In this sense, the relationship with the international climate change policy and key actors’ positions on global climate negotiations will be focused.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 46-69
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish