Climate diplomacy has undergone a profound transformation in the last three decades. Governments have established mechanisms for mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement. Despite these successes, however, one of the most important human impacts of climate change has received […]
Introduction Climate change is one of the greatest policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Yet for many countries in the Global South, climate change is not the only crisis demanding their attention. For many countries in the Global South, their governments will have to deal with the challenges of poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, energy insecurity, […]
Climate change is often described as a scientific issue that must be addressed with scientific solutions. Scientific assessments, climate models, and expert knowledge are critical to informing decision-making processes for international climate negotiations, national adaptation plans, climate finance mechanisms, and public climate debates. The authority of climate science has been crucial in demonstrating the reality […]
Climate change was perceived for many years as an environmental problem that called for scientific solutions and environmental policy action. Today, however, it is a more than just an environmental problem when it comes to climate change. It increasingly influences foreign policy, economic development, humanitarian, and international security. With the increasing severity of climate change […]
Adaptation finance is usually seen as a technical problem that revolves around the amount of funding, modalities, or mechanisms of funding and project implementation. However, for climate-vulnerable countries, particularly Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), adaptation finance represents much more than financial assistance. It’s widely portrayed as a matter of survival, […]
Teuku Muhammad Valdy Arief 
Sultan Sultan 
Wally A. Sowe 
