Framing ocean acidification to mobilise action under multilateral environmental agreements
Ocean acidification has long been framed by its epistemic community as a problem of carbon dioxide emissions that is concurrent to climate change. Framing ocean acidification in this way has been effective at garnering policy action at the domestic level in the United States. It is argued, however,...
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ftumelbourne:oai:jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au:11343/340565 2024-06-02T08:12:26+00:00 Framing ocean acidification to mobilise action under multilateral environmental agreements Harrould-Kolieb, ER 2020-02 http://hdl.handle.net/11343/340565 English eng ELSEVIER SCI LTD issn:1462-9011 doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.019 Harrould-Kolieb, E. R. (2020). Framing ocean acidification to mobilise action under multilateral environmental agreements. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY, 104, pp.129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.019. 1873-6416 http://hdl.handle.net/11343/340565 Journal Article 2020 ftumelbourne https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.019 2024-05-06T15:43:56Z Ocean acidification has long been framed by its epistemic community as a problem of carbon dioxide emissions that is concurrent to climate change. Framing ocean acidification in this way has been effective at garnering policy action at the domestic level in the United States. It is argued, however, in this paper that this framing has been counterproductive at the international level, resulting in two main impediments to the international governance of this issue. Firstly, defining ocean acidification as a concurrent problem to climate change, rather than as an impact of it, has resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change being interpreted as containing no obligation to address ocean acidification. Secondly, focussing almost solely on the reduction of global emissions of carbon dioxide as the only global solution to ocean acidification has resulted in ocean and biodiversity-related regimes that do not have the mandate to regulate CO2 emissions as being viewed as without the recourse to respond. Through an examination of the causes and consequences of ocean acidification and the general objectives of existing multilateral environmental agreements, a set of alternative problem frames are developed in this paper that could be deployed to mobilize action under existing environmental regimes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification The University of Melbourne: Digital Repository Environmental Science & Policy 104 129 135 |
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Ocean acidification has long been framed by its epistemic community as a problem of carbon dioxide emissions that is concurrent to climate change. Framing ocean acidification in this way has been effective at garnering policy action at the domestic level in the United States. It is argued, however, in this paper that this framing has been counterproductive at the international level, resulting in two main impediments to the international governance of this issue. Firstly, defining ocean acidification as a concurrent problem to climate change, rather than as an impact of it, has resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change being interpreted as containing no obligation to address ocean acidification. Secondly, focussing almost solely on the reduction of global emissions of carbon dioxide as the only global solution to ocean acidification has resulted in ocean and biodiversity-related regimes that do not have the mandate to regulate CO2 emissions as being viewed as without the recourse to respond. Through an examination of the causes and consequences of ocean acidification and the general objectives of existing multilateral environmental agreements, a set of alternative problem frames are developed in this paper that could be deployed to mobilize action under existing environmental regimes. |
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issn:1462-9011 doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.019 Harrould-Kolieb, E. R. (2020). Framing ocean acidification to mobilise action under multilateral environmental agreements. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY, 104, pp.129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.019. 1873-6416 http://hdl.handle.net/11343/340565 |
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