The Paris Agreement Revisited: Diplomatic Triumphalism or Denial of Climate Justice?

The 2015 Paris COP 21, after the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen COP, raised many expectations regarding the elaboration of the post-Kyoto legal instrument to lead the global fight against climate change. At the sunset of the summit, world leaders and climate negotiators, relayed by mainstream Medias, presented the results of the Paris climate discussions as an important success for the global climate community. A success contested by climate justice and just transition defenders. Given the foundation role the Paris agreement plays for subsequent global, national and sub-national climate policies on one side and, on the other side, the continuous growing global demands for climate justice and just transition, this article investigates the conciliatory possibilities put in place by the agreement to advance those demands. To reach such goals, the article focuses on the retrospective critical reading of the agreement in the light of human-centered climate perspectives such as climate justice and just transition, without neglecting other aspects related to the very nature of the agreement, and the enhanced commodification of nature and resulting carbon trading. This analysis of the agreement through climate justice lenses will be instrumental in confirming or disproving the following hypothesis: From the climate justice and just transition perspectives, the success of the Paris regime will not pass through the implementation of the Paris agreement itself, but thought corrective mechanisms that could be put in place to correct the loopholes of the agreement. The initiative of putting such post-Paris corrective mechanisms in place is expected to be one of the key priorities of the international community.

中国在全球气候治理进程中的角色进阶

China's present role in global climate governance has evolved through a long process including phases of adaptation, making an active contribution, and singular leadership. It has achieved the transition from participant to contributor and then to leader by introducing the norms of global climate governance into China at an early stage and adjusting the wider development model in the subsequent stages. It leads the setting of the global climate governance agenda and the emergence of new norms in global climate governance and promotes the extant deepening, fairness and justice of global climate governance. The report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC summarizes and makes further commitments to add to China's recent work in the fields of ecological protection and climate governance. In the future, China will play an even more active role in global climate governance, promote the development of a human community with a shared future, and make an even greater contribution to global climate security and sustainable development.

Leave Politics Out of Climate Change

The UN Security Council held its first ever open debate on the impact of climate change on global security in mid-April, indicating the growing concern of the international community over the issue. However, Chen Ying, an associate researcher with the Center of Sustained Development under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes the UN Security Council is not an appropriate platform for such discussions.

Workplace Marginalization： In the Group but Out of the Loop

Abstract New-entry employees expect to be involved rather than to be marginalized. This paper proposes a model to examine the process through which employees can be exempt from marginalization in their organization as a ＂political arena.＂ We argue that an employee, in order not to be marginalized, would like to perform high-quality in-role and extra-role behaviors and also develop good guanxi with his/her immediate supervisor. Moreover, the effects of employee efforts and guanxi on workplace marginalization are moderated by the organization political climate. Two studies were performed to examine the hypothesized model. The pilot study employed a sample of civil servants to develop and validate the measurement of workplace marginalization. The main study collected matched data from 343 employees, 662 of their colleagues, and 343 immediate supervisors. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analysis show that employee job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and supervisor-subordinate guanxi are negatively related to workplace marginalization. In addition, the negative relationship between guanxi and workplace marginalization is stronger in firms with less organizational politics than those with intensive politics.