Name: Governing the End. The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage
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Author: Lisa Vanhala
ISBN: 9780226842967

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Governing the End. The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Author

Lisa Vanhala

Collection

Chicago Series in Law and Society

Year

2025

Pages

248

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 x 2.00 cm

ISBN13

9780226842967

Governing the End. The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage

Lisa Vanhala (Author) · University of Chicago Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Governing the End. The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage"

A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries. Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for the planet. Yet, each country experiences these losses differently, and reaching even inadequate political agreements is fraught with contestation. Governing the End untangles the complex relationship between deteriorating environmental conditions, high politics, and everyday diplomatic practices, focusing on the United Nations’ agreement to address “loss and damage” and subsequent battles over implementation. Lisa Vanhala looks at the differing assumptions and strategic framings that poor and rich countries bring to bear and asks why some norms emerge and diffuse while others fail to do so. Governing the End is based on ethnographic observation of eight years of UN meetings and negotiations and more than one hundred and fifty interviews with diplomats, policymakers, UN secretariat staff, experts, and activists. It explores explicit political contestation, as well as the more clandestine politics that have stymied implementation and substantially reduced the scope of compensation to poor countries. In doing so, Governing the End elucidates the successes and failures of international climate governance, revealing the importance of how ideas are constructed and then institutionally embodied.