Worldview struggles under a new climate regime
South African and Norwegian media coverage of COP17
Abstract
Climate change poses a fundamental challenge that exerts pressure to pursue change –
politically, economically and in daily life (e.g., Giddens 2009 and Hulme 2010). It has
also become an era of struggle and contestation that calls forth our worldviews, norms
and values. During the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP17), which took
place in Durban in 2011, this struggle was manifested in representations of worldviews
under the presumption that the climate negotiations will be concluded with a new global
climate deal some time in the future. The mass media constitute an important arena on
which this struggle is taking place, as depicted in the following quotation from the State
Secretary of the Norwegian Department of Finance:
The rich countries of yesterday, are not necessarily the rich countries of tomorrow.
Today countries like Singapore and South Korea are defined as poor, while Bulgaria and
Greece are placed in the category of rich nations in the Kyoto system. We can’t base
climate politics in this century on a worldview from the last century” (Ketil Lund, in
Bergens Tidende 05.12.11; my translation).
Publisher
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom
Citation
Nordicom Review 36 (2015) 1, pp. 35-49
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Date
2015-05Author
Johannessen, Jill
Editor
Carlsson, Ulla
Keywords
climate representations
climate deal
climate negotiations
COP17
Kyoto Protocol,
climate framing
Publication type
article, peer reviewed scientific
ISBN
978-91-87957-10-9
ISSN
1403-1108
Language
eng
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