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- Title
Linking ocean and climate change governance.
- Authors
Chan, Nicholas
- Abstract
Increasing links are being made between ocean sustainability and climate change, as illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on the ocean and cryosphere, and the billing of the 2019 UN climate change conference as the "Blue COP." This review of these linkages is framed by the "bandwagoning" literature in global environmental politics to examine how ocean action has been constructed as being relevant for both climate mitigation and adaptation. This includes growing interest in "blue carbon" and the emerging narrative of the ocean as a "solution" to climate change, and drawing attention to climate impacts on ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity. It highlights the roles played in constructing this link by entrepreneurial states and the NGO community in building an ocean‐climate bandwagon with the existing processes of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. As broader political attention is paid to ocean health, this review also highlights how these climate bandwagoning efforts overlap or clash with other ocean‐related international environmental processes. This article is categorized under:Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance
- Subjects
INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change; CLIMATE change; MARINE biodiversity; MARINE ecosystem health; CLIMATE change conferences; OCEAN; OCEAN zoning; MARINE ecology; CLIMATE change mitigation
- Publication
WIREs: Climate Change, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1757-7780
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wcc.711