Student: Katie Kelly
Graduation date: May 2018
Capstone type: Thesis
Capstone project:
Climate Justice Narratives Influencing Global Governance
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In the current world order, core countries maintain a dominance over periphery countries. When these actors have to work collaboratively to address climate change, the solutions, ideally, would follow principles of climate justice, the notion that countries most vulnerable to climate change are the least responsible for it. Using narrative as a tool to understand how climate justice is practiced in the UNFCCC, this study focuses in on the case study of Senegal to determine whether narratives of climate justice are reflected in the official documents of the UNFCCC. Narrative as a tool provides a different intellectual and emotional framework to describe different perspectives on reality. This study concludes that climate justice narratives of Senegal are reflected in the UNFCCC as long as they are already institutionalized within the UNFCCC. While the UNFCCC recognizes global inequality, its climate action only maintains the status quo.