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International Decarbonization Regime as a Tool for Implementing Values of the Risk Society

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Rubric: Contemporary Problems of Development
DOI: 10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-5-112-119
MGIMO University, 76, Vernadskogo Prosp., Moscow, 119454, Russian Federation.
MGIMO University, 76, Vernadskogo Prosp., Moscow, 119454, Russian Federation; 
Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), 11-3B, Mokhovaya Str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.
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Received 07.06.2021. Revised 29.01.2022. Accepted 01.03.2022.

Acknowledgements. The article was prepared in the framework of a research grant funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (grant ID: 075-15-2020-930).


Abstract. The coronavirus pandemic has actualised the “Global Risk Society” concept. The purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of an international decarbonisation regime in terms of the values of the “global risk society” as updated by the coronavirus pandemic. Under the conditions of “new normality”, new values that determine the socio-political development of society are taking shape. Relying on the “Global Risk Society” theory, the authors derive its emerging values, the emergence of which is associated with the pandemic and its socio-economic effects. Thus, new values include the abandonment of faith in progress and a focus on crisis management (resilience), global solidarity as a key condition for survival, the search for a balance between freedom and security, effective response and regulation, “open innovation” as part of the “global commons”, rethinking of the value of consumption, and finally, the value of the climate agenda as a global green imperative comes to the fore. These values are of importance for a global climate agenda as well, which has become more acute during the pandemic. A key actor here is the European Union, which, through its policy of normative power and environmental ethics, is shaping a new international decarbonisation regime as an instrument for realising these values. And this “new ethic” has no national boundaries. Such international regime aims to create a regulatory framework for responding to climate risks that has the potential to profoundly affect global development and lead to a fundamentally new international climate order.

Keywords: global climate agenda, global values, “global risk society”, international regimes, international decarbonization regime, carbon tax


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Barabanov O., Maslova E. International Decarbonization Regime as a Tool for Implementing Values of the Risk Society. World Eñonomy and International Relations, 2022, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 112-119. https://doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-5-112-119

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