CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Mueller, Tatiana Sofia |
|---|---|
| Title | Justice, Geopolitics, and Business-As-Usual: The Role of Narratives in shaping Loss and Damage Politics and Policy under the UNFCCC |
| Summary | Loss and Damage (L&D) is becoming an increasingly central pillar of global environmental governance under the UNFCCC, driven by the worsening severity and frequency of climate change induced impacts on vulnerable communities. Loss and Damage has been a contentious and ambiguous topic since its emergence in the 1990s and is still controversial despite major strides within L&D structures in recent years. Shaping much of the discourse surrounding L&D are the submissions made to Subsidiary Body sessions, in which official party groupings, non-governmental organisations, and observer organisations shape and reinforce narratives surrounding various facets of L&D, including historic responsibility and funding mechanisms. Through narrative analysis of 89 submission documents between 2019 and 2024, the shifts in framing of L&D alongside changes across the policy landscape underscore the influential role of narratives within climate change governance spaces. In particular, the prevalence of three key narratives is noted in recent years, including the Justice Narrative, the Geopolitical Narrative, and the Business-As-Usual Narrative. |
| Supervisor | Antypas, Alexios |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/mueller_tatiana.pdf |
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