Presenter(s): Barbara Lombardi − Business
Faculty Mentor(s): Ronald Mitchell
Poster 166
Research Area: Policy
This research will explore the Environmental Integrity negotiating Group’s position on climate change and how that aligns with the five individual country’s stances. The primary research question is: despite the fact that Mexico, South Korea, Lichtenstein, Monaco, and Switzerland belong to the same negotiating group, did each country make the same Intended Nationally Determined Contribution commitments? The position of the Environmental Integrity Group will be examined and compared to each individual country’s previous activities, Greenhouse Gas emissions, and policy implementations. Primary research suggests that these countries have different emission patterns and mitigation targets. These five country’s all agreed to be apart of a common group adopting the same values, but do they individually all end up making the same individual contributions? Each country’s vulnerability to climate change may play a vital role in their decision to form a group. These questions are important to answer because if these vastly different country’s are able to agree on solutions to global warming, then possibly all country’s can reach an agreement to make a significant impact on reversing climate change.