Resilience to global crises: the UNFCCC climate regime

The authors contend that the UNFCCC process must tackle global power dynamics and colonial legacies to become more resilient. They highlight how the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated existing inequities, creating barriers to participation for Global South representatives and increasing the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South, which in turn eroded trust due to vaccine inequality and unmet climate finance targets.

• Long-term resilience in climate negotiations depends on addressing global power dynamics and the colonial legacies present in geopolitics.
• The Covid-19 pandemic worsened inequities in the UNFCCC process, specifically hindering the participation of Global South countries, civil society, and marginalized groups through financial gaps and travel restrictions, such as visa barriers.
• Trust between the Global North and Global South was severely damaged by vaccine inequality and the failure of developed nations to meet climate finance targets, despite their ability to fund domestic pandemic responses. This has led to increased demands from the Global South for finance regarding loss and damage and adaptation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Resilience to global crises: the UNFCCC climate regime. https://www.sei.org/publications/resilience-global-crises-unfccc-climate/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Resilience to global crises: the UNFCCC climate regime. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/resilience-global-crises-unfccc-climate/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022resilience, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Resilience to global crises: the UNFCCC climate regime}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/resilience-global-crises-unfccc-climate/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }