US exit from the Paris Agreement: Kyoto revisited?

US exit from the Paris Agreement: Kyoto revisited?

Thursday, 28 September 2017 - 1:00pm

The United States' recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (unless it can re-engage on more favourable terms) has rattled international consensus on the need for cooperation to avoid dangerous climate change. Yet it remained contested whether the overall effects of the US decision on global climate policy will be good, bad or largely indifferent.

To help tease out the likely implications of the decision, Jonathan Pickering will compare and contrast US non-participation in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. Jonathan will focus on four key areas that may condition the influence of US treaty decisions on international climate policy:

  1. Global momentum on climate change mitigation
  2. The timing and circumstances of the US decision to exit
  3. The possibility of US non-participation giving rise to alternative forms of international collaboration on climate policy
  4. The influence of treaty design on countries' incentives to participate and comply
Event Location: 
Australian-German Climate and Energy College
187 Grattan Street Level 1
3053 Carlton , VIC
Victoria
Speakers
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance

Jonathan Pickering is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Canberra. He is currently working on an ARC-funded project entitled 'Deliberating in the Anthropocene' (2015-19). He is an Associate of the ANU Climate Change Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Development Policy Centre.

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