The Paris Agreement obligations expire in 2024. How do we ensure that global climate action will continue and be enhanced beyond the Paris legal infrastructure? Climate change is a problem that will remain with us for many more decades. We should start negotiations on how we should proceed after the Paris Agreement has come to an end. We should set this process in motion earlier on.

Will COP26 inspire new and legally binding obligations to reduce emissions and on loss and damage resulting from climate change?

This event will discuss the findings of a recent inter-disciplinary Climate Policy paper that uses the principles of international environmental law to select criteria to determine 'national fair shares' in GHG mitigation. Fair share ranges consistent with international environmental law principles offer a benchmark for existing and new nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, for peer-to-peer comparisons, and to feed into the global stock takes.

Since 2010 the UK has embarked on a series of radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such dramatic cuts and reforms. Until recently, however, the changes proved very popular with the public, who increasingly hated the welfare system and viewed its users as lazy, undeserving and likely to be cheating.

How do you actually ‘do’ mixed methods research in the social sciences? How can primarily qualitative researchers think about quantitative methods, and vice versa? Do qual and quant simply co-exist within research, or can they be coherently integrated? What does this mean in particular disciplines? In this session Prof Leigh Payne of Sociology and the Latin American Studies Centre, Prof Heather Hamill from Sociology, and Dr Olivier Sterck, an economist within the Department of International Development will share their perspectives.

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online, with a possibility for members of the University of Oxford to join in person in Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB. Registration on: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TlQxhGKwSgm4F9awBon5wg

Speakers: Andreas Michaelis (German Ambassador to the UK); Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford); Christiane Hoffmann (der Spiegel); David Lidington (Koenigswinter)
Chair: Hartmut Mayer (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Convenors: Andrew Hurrell (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford) and Alasdair MacDonald (Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership)
Series:
European Studies Seminar

For more details, please visit https://www.oussg.uk/termcard