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*Our Common Future Under Climate Change <http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/How-to-Contribute/Contributions.htm>* *Paris, 7-10 July 2015* *Deadline for abstracts: 2 March 2015* *Parallel Session: Green Transition and Growth* *Proposed Panel: “Can the Green Economy save the climate?”* The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 (Rio+20) has given way to a heated debate about the “green economy”, a concept promoted by United Nations Organizations (e.g. UNEP, 2012 <#14b7ec3658dab9b8__ENREF_4>) with the aim to sketch a desirable and practicable way out of the multiple environmental and social crises the world faces today. The green economy is a concept that has its origins in the late 1980s (Pearce et al., 1989 <#14b7ec3658dab9b8__ENREF_3>), introduced with the aim to overcome the opposition between economic growth and environmental policy through technological and social innovations. During the Rio+20 conference however, it faced harsh criticism from some developing countries and NGOs, raising questions on its universal applicability. Notwithstanding this opposition by some, the notion has proven influential since, in the field of sustainable development in general, as well as in the climate arena. This parallel session proposal focuses on the role of the concept of the green economy in global environmental governance from Rio+20 to COP21, in order to gain a better understanding of the trajectory of this notion and its capacity – as well as of the policies it refers to –, to contribute to tackling anthropogenic climate change. More generally, the session aims at increasing reflexivity through a better understanding of the role of norms and frames in Earth System Governance (Biermann, 2014 <#14b7ec3658dab9b8__ENREF_1>). We welcome paper proposals on - The origins and content of the concept of the green economy, including research on institutions and epistemic communities that promote it; its specificity compared to other notions like sustainable development, ecological modernization, green growth, de-growth; and the controversies it spurred, especially between developing and industrialized countries. - How the concept of the green economy has been mobilized and deployed in Rio+20 and since then in climate and environmental negotiations. This includes ethnographic and sociological research on the role of the green economy in specific conferences, political studies of the negotiation process, research on the role of discourse or advocacy coalitions, on epistemic communities, etc. - Newer developments in the climate arena linked to the green economy, in particular referring to the (alleged) “paradigm shift” from targets, timetables and prices to production processes, renewable energy development, finance, etc. (Damian, 2014 <#14b7ec3658dab9b8__ENREF_2>). - Concrete examples of (national or regional) policies inspired by the notion of the green economy, chosen because they exemplify one specific approach to the green economy, and/or because they further our understanding about whether the concept is at all adapted to combating climate change and the global ecological crisis. Submit abstracts online: http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/How-to-Contribute/Contributions.htm -- Dr Hayley Stevenson Senior Lecturer Department of Politics University of Sheffield hayleystevenson.com *Recently published* *Democratizing Global Climate Governance* <http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/democratizing-global-climate-governance?format=HB> (with John S. Dryzek). *Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p#>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
