2016年全球环境与气候治理讲座之一: 巴黎气候协定能奏效吗?

      讲座嘉宾: Professor Thomas Bernauer

      时间与地点: 2016年3月8日上午9点, 国关楼C105

      工作语言:英语

      主办单位:必赢242net官网国际组织研究中心

      主持人: 张海滨教授

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讲座内容要点:

“Unilateral Versus Reciprocal Climate Policy: Will the Paris Approach Really Work?"

This lecture examines whether the move away from global top-down targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and towards a much more decentralised “pledge-and-review” approach can help move the world towards the 1.5 degrees Paris target. The lecture will pay particular attention to public opinion in this regard, because climate policy affects nearly everyone in society and public opinion thus matters a lot for policy-making. The lecture will look at whether and how public opinion on climate policy imposes restrictions on what policy-makers can achieve. In particular, it will look at the extent to which citizens support unilateral (or reciprocal) climate policy, and whether framing the benefits of GHG reductions more in terms of benefiting technological innovation and public health, rather than mitigating climate risks per se, could create stronger public support for ambitious climate change mitigation measures.Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

演讲人简介:

Professor Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

   Thomas Bernauer is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich. He and his research group are based at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS; www.cis.ethz.ch), a joint institution of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, and at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP, www.istp.ethz.ch). Thomas Bernauer obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1992. In 1988-92 he was a researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, in 1992-94 a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, and in 1994-95 a senior lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 1995 he was appointed assistant professor at ETH Zurich, in 1999 associate professor, and in 2004 full professor. In 2004-2006 Thomas Bernauer was dean of ETH Zurich’s department of social sciences and humanities, and in 2005-2009 director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies. From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research council. In 2011-2012 he was President of Division IV (national research programs, national centers of excellence) of the Science Foundation’s research council. Since 2015 he is the director of ETH’s Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, ISTP.

   In his research and teaching Thomas Bernauer focuses on international environmental and economic issues. He is the author or co-author of ten books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. His publications have appeared with publishers such as Princeton University Press as well as in political science, economics, and interdisciplinary environmental journals, for example International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Peace Research, European Union Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Ecological Economics, World Development, Political Geography, Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, and Water Resources Research.