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Title Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime
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Authors Oh, C
Title Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime
Year 2020
Published New Political Economy, 25, 4
DOI 10.1080/13563467.2019.1639147
Abstract Under the new climate change regime ushered in by the 2015 Paris Agreement, technology development and transfer have emerged as essential means of global action for climate change mitigation and adaptation. In particular, technological innovation has appeared as a leading component to be accelerated, encouraged, and enabled under the Paris Agreement. However, while making the rule book to implement the Paris Agreement, a clash has occurred between developed and developing countries over the meaning of technological innovation and the intervening policies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to support innovation in developing countries. By exploring rule-making processes and expert-meetings under the UNFCCC, this paper examines how this discursive contestation has progressed in relation to the meaning of technological innovation and the creation of an appropriate institutional design to support developing countries' achievement of technological innovation. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of discursive contestation between the two discourses of de-regulatory ecological modernisation and green governmentality with right-to-development. This research concludes by positing some policy implications.
Author Keywords Technological innovation; UNFCCC; Paris Agreement; climate change; discursive contestation
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000475022900001
WoS Category Economics; International Relations; Political Science
Research Area Business & Economics; International Relations; Government & Law
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