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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1"><i>Urban Climate</i> >journal
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From global 'North-South' to local 'Urban-Rural': A shifting paradigm
in climate governance?</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Mahendra Sethi, Jose Puppim de
Oliveira</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br>
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Keywords:</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Climate governance - Carbon access
and allocation - Ethics and equity - North South -Spatial -
Urban-rural</font></div>
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Abstract<b> (Open access)</b></font></div>
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>http://i.unu.edu/media/iigh.unu.edu/news/3958/Urban-Climate_Oliveira</u
>-Sethi.pdf?utm_source=home&utm_medium=text&utm_term=article<span
></span
>&utm_content=shifting-climate-governance-paradigm&utm_campai<span
></span>gn=unu-iigh</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br>
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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.</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br>
</font><font face="Geneva" size="-1">! 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights
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access)</b></font></div>
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>http://i.unu.edu/media/iigh.unu.edu/news/3958/Urban-Climate_Oliveira</u
>-Sethi.pdf?utm_source=home&utm_medium=text&utm_term=article<span
></span
>&utm_content=shifting-climate-governance-paradigm&utm_campai<span
></span>gn=unu-iigh</font></div>
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