Can we govern the climate?
Free public lecture by Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, from Durham University
Monday 16 May 2016 17:30 to 19:30
in the Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex.
Talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
The recent conclusions of COP21 in Paris appear to offer another hopeful juncture on the long road to reaching a global agreement on how society should respond to climate change.
Commitment has been renewed, new goals articulated and, perhaps most surprisingly, a host of other actors have been brought into the multilateral domain to add momentum (and legitimacy) to the ongoing international effort.
While the impacts and implications of the Paris agreement continue to be pored over, what is clear is that the ideal of a multilateral agreement universally adopted and cascaded into implementation through the public arena has given way to a much more complex political imagination in which actors public and private, local and global jostle for attention and the fate of one seems to be irrevocably bound up with the others.