[MCN] Rural-Urban Divide, worldwide?

[Lance Olsen]

Urban Climate >journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/uclim

From global 'North-South' to local 'Urban-Rural': 
A shifting paradigm in climate governance?
Mahendra Sethi, Jose Puppim de Oliveira

Keywords:
Climate governance - Carbon access and allocation 
- Ethics and equity - North South -Spatial - 
Urban-rural

Abstract (Open access)
http://i.unu.edu/media/iigh.unu.edu/news/3958/Urban-Climate_Oliveira-Sethi.pdf?utm_source=home&utm_medium=text&utm_term=article&utm_content=shifting-climate-governance-paradigm&utm_campaign=unu-iigh

As the world takes an unprecedented rural-urban 
population tilt, the 21st century poses a 
challenge in further tinkering the 
internationally evident disparities in access and 
allocation of carbon. Traditionally, inequalities 
have been negotiated from economic or 'state of 
development' perspective. This research, to our 
knowledge is the first of its kind that plots 
carbon emission of over 200 nations/territories 
against a spatial framework. The study argues 
that existing dualities in the international 
climate change governance, evident in the so 
called global 'North-South' economic divide, has 
a stronger component of 'Urban-Rural' spatial 
disparity in the making, which is likely to 
further precipitate into a much local but complex 
dynamic, particularly relevant to the developing 
world, that face the double challenge of rapid 
urbanization and environmental sustainability. 
The paper discusses the ethical, empirical and 
governance gaps in climate governance related to 
the urban-rural carbon dynamics and conclude with 
a future pathway, committed to pro- cedural 
justice and sub-nationalization of carbon 
governance, fairly acknowledging carbon flows at 
the local level through standard inventories 
based on consumption criteria. The research 
offers a shifting paradigm in global climate 
governance, in view of the inclusion of cities as 
Goal 11 within the upcoming sustainable 
development goals and the UNFCCC COP21 to be held 
in Paris in 2015 and beyond.
! 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  (Open access)
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