Spring 2018 Conflict Series—The Governance Challenge of Climate Change Action

Co-presented by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School, the Center for Global Affairs at NYU's School for Professional Studies, the Program in International Relations at NYU's GSAS, the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner

February
27
12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
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Date:
February 27, 2018
Time:
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
The Puck Building - 295 Lafayette Street, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012

Each Tuesday, the Conflict, Security, and Development Series will examine new research, discuss creative policy approaches, and highlight recent innovations in responding to the challenges of security and development in conflict and post-conflict situations. 

Franz Baumann, Visiting Research Professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences International Relations Program, will discuss the governance challenge of climate change action.

Global warming (more accurately: global heating) is a global challenge of unprecedented magnitude and extraordinary political complexity.  As matters stand, the emissions-pledge pathway negotiated in the Paris Agreement has a probability of more than 90 percent to exceed 2°C, and only a likely chance of remaining below 3°C this century.  The issue is no longer the prevention of catastrophe, but its postponement.  In fact, time is running out, and nature neither negotiates nor compromises.



What will happen to the international order when the climate shifts to 3°C or even warmer?  Are current political institutions, mechanisms and tools adequate to deal with the consequences of Global Heating?  Can or will states act before problems become too big to manage?  Is technocratic governance reaching the limits of its capacity?  Can it deal proactively with the quadruple shocks of Global Heating, Conflict, Migration and accelerating Automation as well as Artificial Intelligence that are altering the nature work?



It is a significant risk that, against the backdrop of domestic and international political strife – and with policy-makers already operating in uncharted territory as regards the consequences of automation and artificial intelligence – the eruption of a climate, or any other, disaster will overwhelm existing political systems.  What will this mean for the international order?

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Conflict, Security & Development Series