Browsing by Author "Wardekker A"

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    A new season for climate change science and praxis?
    (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024-01-29) Glavovic B; Bremer S; Wardekker A
    I write these reflections at the end of the 27th Conference of Parties meeting of governments (COP27), held in Egypt in November 2022, at which governments sought to progress climate action. COP27 was informed by the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Established in 1988, the IPCC provides UN member nations with comprehensive assessments of the state of climate change science and its implications. I spent much of 2017–2022 devoted to AR6. I was a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on sea-level rise in the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (1), Lead Author of the chapter on Climate Resilient Development, and co-lead for the Cross-Chapter Paper on Cities and Settlements by the Sea, in the Working Group II report (2). How can I convey the gravitas of the climate predicament outlined in AR6? Moreover, where do we stand now – after more than three decades of intensive climate change science-policy interactions? What does this portend for climate change scientists, policy advisors and elected politicians? What does it mean for you and I? And how might answers to these questions inform our understanding about seasons; and how we might navigate impending dangerous climate change?
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    Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
    (Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2021-11) Bremer S; Glavovic B; Meisch S; Schneider P; Wardekker A
    Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what work has been done on institutional cultures and climate change, discerns common themes around which this scholarship coheres, and advances and argument for why institutional cultures matter. We employed a systematic literature review to assemble a set of 54 articles with a shared concern for how climate change and institutional cultures concurrently affect each other. The articles provided evidence of a nascent field, emerging over the past 5–10 years and fragmented across literatures. This field draws on diverse concepts of institutionalism for revealing quite different expressions of culture, and is mostly grounded in empirical studies. These disparate studies compellingly demonstrate, from different perspectives, that institutional cultures do indeed matter for implementing climate governance. Indeed, the articles converge in providing empirical evidence of eight key sites of interaction between climate change and institutional cultures: worldviews, values, logics, gender, risk acceptance, objects, power, and relationality. These eight sites are important foci for examining and effecting changes to institutions and their cultures; showing how institutional cultures shape responses to climate change, and how climate change shapes institutional cultures. This article is categorized under: The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice