Conference Paper • Global Public Policy
Unequal Skies, Shared Destiny
Bridging the Political and Financial Rift in Global Climate Governance.
Research Puzzle
Why do those least responsible often suffer the most?
The project examines a systemic disconnect between emissions, vulnerability, and financial capacity. It argues that climate governance cannot be effective unless responsibility, resources, and voice are reorganized around distributive justice.
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Key Takeaways
The Financial Rift is a structural divide between the geography of emissions generation and the geography of climate harm.
Climate governance is weakened by institutional fragmentation, major-power instability, and unequal discourse power.
Developing countries are often treated as policy followers despite facing disproportionate vulnerability.
The proposed CPCA shifts climate finance from voluntary charity toward binding responsibility and accountability.
Proposed Architecture
Climate Policy Coordination Alliance: from fragmented pledges to justice-based coordination.
Fair Climate Financing
Mandatory contributions based on historical emissions, current capacity, and luxury carbon consumption, with predictable funding for adaptation and loss-and-damage needs.
South-South Cooperation
A technology-transfer facility that strengthens agency among developing states through open knowledge sharing, local capacity building, and resilience-oriented adaptation tools.
Monitoring & Arbitration
Independent tracking of financial flows and policy implementation, paired with dispute-resolution mechanisms to address responsibility, compliance, and climate damages.
Conceptual Vocabulary
Selected References
Chancel, L. (2022). Global Carbon Inequality 1990-2019.
Burke, M., Hsiang, S. M., & Miguel, E. (2015). Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production.
Ostrom, E. (2009). A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change.
Roberts, J. T., & Parks, B. C. (2007). A Climate of Injustice.
United Nations. (2015). Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Research Continuum
This paper sits inside a larger portfolio of arguments on institutions, pressure, and regional order.
The projects are different in subject matter, but they keep talking to one another. Together they trace how power is managed through ambiguity, procedural design, and unequal governance structures.
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