tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493100537925772712024-02-08T21:48:56.876+01:00The Legitimation of Global Public Governance A blog about understanding and engaging in the justification of multilateralismSylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879283198425453514noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849310053792577271.post-35542116269960397572018-12-12T15:56:00.000+01:002018-12-19T11:41:15.985+01:00My story for the Talanoa Dialogue under the Paris Agreement - Part II - How do we get there. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">My story is your story. The story of almost
200 countries on a beautiful blue planet engaged in a joint endeavour of grand
proportions -addressing climate change. In doing so you have, as is your habit,
developed an international treaty containing a mixture of legal and moral
obligations as a basis for your efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">You devised an accountability mechanism for
the treaty suited to a community of peers that want to help and encourage each
other to action, rather than to scold and sanction each other for inaction. This
mechanism includes a global reflection every five years on the sufficiency of
aggregate action that shall inform the plans for how much a country will do
next. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">Accountability can be defined as being about
telling a story, based on some obligation and with some consequences. You are
now here in the trial run of the global stocktake telling your stories based on
your obligations. The decisive question is: how do you make obligatory story
telling at global level have sufficient consequences in the form of enhanced
ambition at national level? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">This year I lead a research project with GLOBE and One World Trust beginning
to search the answer to this question. We looked for good examples of how
countries are engaging with the Talanoa Dialogue at home and how they are planning
to engage with future global stocktakes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">We found 37 Talanoa Dialogues organised by
governments at national or regional level. Most of them were stand alone one
day multi-stakeholder events with story telling of best practices and not
linked to a policy process. One shining exception was Peru that held a
three-month long public deliberation process with stakeholders throughout the
country feeding into developing regulations for their climate legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">We found that some of you like the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, Mexico and the EU have adapted their legislative or
policy frameworks to include five-year review cycles of climate plans aligned
with the global stocktake. Many others have not yet done so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;">Based on our preliminary results we recommend
you to b</span><span style="line-height: 125%;">ring the outcome
of this Talanoa Dialogue home to your countries, empower your parliament to
take a lead role in organising a reflection process on its implications. This
ensures broad legitimacy and consideration of cross-sectoral policy
implications. Then, if you have not done so already, enhance ambition. But as
important is to evaluate the experience of the reflection process itself and
use that when you adjust legislation and design future processes. Key questions
for such an evaluation are: how was the process able to foster earnest and
uplifting reflection, combining careful analysis of experience with unlocking
enthusiasm for doing more across all sectors? </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;">If I ended the story here countries would be on their own in
learning how to best design their national ambition mechanism. Why not build a
learning community among yourselves, share in your Nationally Determined Contributions or National
Communications your failures and successes in reflecting for enhanced ambition and
discuss these when you meet? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 125%;">How this story will end is a lot up you. You have designed an
accountability mechanism asking everyone of you - the governments of the world
- to look yourself in the mirror every five years together with your
parliamentarians, scientists and citizens and </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;">earnestly
compare your climate actions to the moral and legal standards of the Paris
Agreement and if there are mismatches - step up action. </span><span style="line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879283198425453514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849310053792577271.post-89594752964048814602018-12-10T12:55:00.002+01:002018-12-12T17:56:28.812+01:00My story for the Talanoa Dialogue under the Paris Agreement - Part I - Where are we? <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of the preparatory phase of the Talanoa Dialogue a face-to-face session of storytelling was held on 6 May in Bonn. I took part as one of seven researchers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the story of a species with a unique
capacity for science and morality that inhabits a beautiful blue planet. As a
result of a tumultuous history its members are divided into some 200 countries.
These countries are finding more and more reasons to unite to address common
challenges. The changing climate is one example. After many years of struggle they
agreed on an accord with a common objective. Joy and celebrations! In this
accord countries accepted to do their very best to address climate change. As
was their habit – however – they did not want to prescribe how much each
country should do. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So to make sure that the total
contributions are sufficient to reach their common objective they created a mechanism
of global reflection on past action every five years. Each country then has to
consider the outcome of this when deciding how much they will do next. This is
a collective accountability mechanism. Accountability can be defined as being
about telling a story, based on some obligation and with some consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are now in a trial run of this
mechanism. This we know. But we do not know how obligatory story telling at
global level can have sufficient national consequences. We can develop two sets
of questions to find out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, how do we tell our stories and
reflect on them at the global level?</span><br />
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stories of both failure and success for mutual learning?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%; text-indent: -18pt;">How earnest and uplifting can we make our collective
deliberations based on these stories?</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Second, how do we bring the global
reflection home to our countries?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%; text-indent: -18pt;">How open and timely are our national climate planning cycles to
consider the outcome of the global reflection?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%; text-indent: -18pt;">How much do parliamentarians and other domestic actors support considering
national responsibilities in light of a global perspective? And how can these
actors hold the government to account for its climate policy?</span></span></li>
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ourselves to account? Do we regularly look ourselves in the mirror, reflect on
our actions and compare those to our ethical standards? And if we find a
mismatch do we stren</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 125%;">gthen our pledge to do our best to support the Paris
Agreement? </span><span style="color: #333333;">Finally, do we go home from here and
have uplifting and meaningful conversations with our family members, co-workers,
friends and strangers to accompany others towards such self-reflection? Then we
can say this process is about facilitative accountability.</span></span></div>
<br />Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879283198425453514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849310053792577271.post-25084380801129378762018-12-04T23:14:00.003+01:002018-12-08T11:37:53.165+01:00On my way to share a story in Katowice and COP24It is that time of year again. Thousands gather in once place to discuss one of the biggest challenges humanity is facing - climate change. This time it is Katowice, the heard of the coal production of Poland that is the host for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, COP24 in short. Climate change is an issue that epitomizes with lucid clarity the limitations of governing global issues within the constraints formed by rules and mindsets dominated by national self-interest and national sovereignty. Could we imagine that if a threat of this magnitude would face a single country - and that country had the means to address it, that it would stick its head in the sand and wait for better times?<br />
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Climate change illustrates the need for global public governance that is as effective to ensure the well-being of humanity and the planet as national governments are. In the rule system we have now under the Paris Agreement that means that every nation that has ratified the agreement needs to commit whole heartedly to all of its the obligations, both the legal and the moral ones. One of these obligations is to make sure that the 'ambition mechanism' of the Paris Agreement can work. The core idea of the ambition mechanism is that every country shall reflect on the outcome of the global stocktake and use this as input to enhance their level of ambition if the stocktake shows this is necessary. And the same goes for the 'trial stocktake' this year in the form of the Talanoa Dialogue. I will bring a <a href="http://www.oneworldtrust.org/climate-change.html" target="_blank">policy brief</a> to COP24 that looks at how countries are preparing to enable the ambition mechanism and that suggests measures both at national and international level that are key to making it work.Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879283198425453514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849310053792577271.post-15743286198728339432018-11-26T22:37:00.002+01:002018-12-05T10:52:42.174+01:00Blog in progressThis blog is in the making - over the next few weeks I will add my contributions to the legitimation of global public governance in the form of policy briefs, reports and scientific publications. Tune in for more!Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879283198425453514noreply@blogger.com0