My students draw their emotional reactions to climate change politics
Look closely at what they have drawn. Carefully read their captions. There are powerful emotions being communicated here. Please listen to what they have to say.
Tag Archives: UNFCCC
Strong sustainability transition: What hitting the 1.5 degree climate target means
Earlier this month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a sobering special report arguing that globally we a decade to complete greenhouse mitigation measures, to limit the global temperature […]
Asia Rising Podcast: China’s Green Leadership
China operates on a scale that outclasses every other country, and are taking climate change seriously. As the world’s biggest polluter many would say that this is the way it […]
La Trobe Asia Seminar: Will China Lead the World in Global Climate Politics?
In 2005 China was home to 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, but today it is the world’s leading producer of renewable energy sources. It has […]
China set to lead on global climate politics
China is poised to step into the leadership void left by the Trump administration’s likely withdrawal from international climate politics, write Nicholas Procter and Benjamin Habib in Asian Currents. The […]
Moving Beyond Failure: Environmental Engagement with North Korea as an Alternative to Denuclearization Politics
Environmental engagement with the DPRK based on mutual interests around climate change could offer a path toward regional stability.
Reflecting on the People’s Climate March
On Friday 27th November I joined 60,000 other concerned citizens in Melbourne for the People’s Climate March, the first of a number of networked actions which took place around the […]
Asia Rising Podcast: North Korea’s Climate Co-operation
North Korea is vulnerable to climate change, and experiences problems of food insecurity. It has an active relationship with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), brought on largely […]
North Korea, Climate Change and Capacity-Building
On Wednesday 1st July 2015, I delivered a guest lecture entitled “North Korea, Climate Change and Capacity-Building” to students completing a Design Research Studio in the Master of Landscape program […]
North Korea’s changing climate of environmental cooperation
The North Korean government would appear to have a compelling prima facie self-interest in participant in the global climate change mitigation and adaptation project centred on the UN Framework Convention […]
Balance of Incentives: Why North Korea Interacts with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Here is my latest article publication building on my work on North Korea and the UNFCCC… Habib, B. (2015) ‘Balance of Incentives: Why North Korea Interacts with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’. Pacific Affairs, 88(1): 75-97.
SEV Conference: Environmental Degradation and Climate Change
Climate change is the defining social, economic and political issue of the 21st century. On Friday 20th March I was invited to speak at the VCE Teachers Conference in Melbourne, […]
North Korea’s Socialisation into the International Climate Change Regime
In this presentation I explore the North Korean government’s commitment to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change through the prism of institutional socialisation theory. Despite complying with its obligations […]
Behind North Korea’s surprising compliance on climate change
When we think of North Korea, we think of a nation determined to be an outsider in the international community. Whether it’s testing nuclear weapons or threatening London hairdressers, the […]
Complex Inter-dependence and Climate Change as an International Relations Dilemma
On the 5th of May 2014 I was invited to deliver a guest presentation for the third year undergraduate subject Crises and Risk in International Relations at Deakin University. In […]
North Korea’s surprising status in the international climate change regime
This article was originally published in East Asia Forum, 9th November 2013. — North Korea is a curious case among Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change […]
Why Does North Korea Engage with the International Climate Change Regime?
Presentation at Korea Update 2013, Korea Institute, Australian National University, 11th October 2013. — Why does North Korea engage with the international climate change regime, centred on the United Nations […]
Conference Paper: North Korea and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Korean Studies Association of Australasia – 8th Biennial Conference, 27-28 June 20113, Australian National University, Canberra. — This project is the latest manifestation of a project that began with my […]
COP-18 in Doha: When There is No Low-hanging Fruit Left to Pick
Negotiating teams representing countries from around the world have converged this week in Doha, Qatar, for the 18th conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, […]
North Korea, Climate Mitigation and the Global Commons
BY BEN HABIB. The North Korean government has every reason to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and participate in the global climate change mitigation project. As early as August 2002, […]
