The Asia-Pacific Region on the Paris Agreement against Climate Change: Geopolitics and Cooperation

Given the complexity surrounding climate change, it is argued that the willingness to cooperate on the part of the States is based on one of the faces that, for the climate field, can offer geopolitics: strengths or weaknesses (understood as vulnerability) of geographical conditions, location and te...

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Autores: Cuevas Tello, Ana Bertha, Preciado Caballero, Nora Elena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Asia y África
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx:article/2224
Acceso en línea:https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2224
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:climate change
Asia Pacific
Paris Agreement
risk and vulnerability
cambio climático
Asia Pacífico
Acuerdo de París
riesgo
vulnerabilidad
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Sumario:Given the complexity surrounding climate change, it is argued that the willingness to cooperate on the part of the States is based on one of the faces that, for the climate field, can offer geopolitics: strengths or weaknesses (understood as vulnerability) of geographical conditions, location and territory. That is, the physical, geographic, economic and demographic factors of each State influence the decision making of the foreign climate policy, which induces them to cooperate or the abstention of it. This paper will address, broadly speaking, the participation of the main economies of the Asia-Pacific region in the institutionalization of climate change in the International Agenda; the importance of the economies of the Asia-Pacific region with regard to the Paris Agreement; and the geopolitical strengths and weaknesses that explain the cooperative or non-cooperative behavior of the region in the fight against climate change.