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

Climate Breakfast Seminar Series with Lisa Vanhala.

Abstract

This talk will present Vanhala's forthcoming book Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change LOss and Damage which untangles the complex relationship between deteriorating environmental conditions, high politics, and everyday diplomatic practices. 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 limited the scope of funding for poor countries. Governing the End elucidates the successes and failures of international climate governance, revealing the importance of how ideas are constructed and then institutionally embodied.

Registration

Register for the seminar. Zoom link is provided upon registration.