December 12, 2020 marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. In a Global Policy Opinion article, Harro Van Asselt, Sander Chan, Idil Boran, Thomas Hale, Lukas Hermwille, and Charles Roger take a closer look at how climate action can be strengthened in three ways. Our research paper forthcoming in Global Policy explains in detail […]
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Article in The Conversation
Co-authored with Kenneth Shockley (Colorado State University) an article in The Conversation during COP 22 in Marrakech. Shockley & Boran, With waning US leadership on climate, nonstate actors to play outsize role.
Idil Boran at COP 22 Marrakech
Idil Boran attended COP 22, the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), November 7-18, Marrakech, Morocco. Boran's activities at COP 22 include: Presenting at a side event in the blue zone on "Linking (I)NDCs to Global Climate Action Agenda: Realizing Synergies". The event was co-organized with the […]
May 2016: Official Side Event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference May 2016
An official side event, organized by Idil Boran in collaboration with Joanna Patouris (Faculty of Environmental Studies), titled "The Way Forward: Developing a Transparency Pathway as a Condition for Equity in the UNFCCC" will be held on Saturday, May 21st, 11:30—13:00 at the Bonn Climate Change Conference May 2016. The Bonn Climate Change Conference brings world leaders together to take […]
Article: "Principles of public reason in the UNFCCC: Rethinking the equity framework" in Science and Engineering Ethics (Springer)
Boran, I. (2017). Principles of Public Reason in the UNFCCC: Rethinking the Equity Framework. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23(5), 1253–1271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9779-9 Abstract: Since 2011, the focus of international negotiations under the UNFCCC has been on producing a new climate agreement by 2015. This phase of negotiations is known as the Durban Platform for Enhanced […]
2016 Berlin Conference on Transformative Global Governance "après Paris", May 23-24, 2016
2016 Berlin Conference on Transformative Global Governance "après Paris", held in Berlin, May 23-24, 2016. Paper presentation, written in collaboration with Kenneth Shockley (University at Buffalo), on rethinking the equity framework for global governance on climate change in its new course after Paris.
2016 annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific, March 30-April 3, San Francisco
American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific 2016, held in San Francisco, March 30-April 3. Paper presentation "Enhancing Welfare without Welfarism: An Integrated Approach to Climate Change" to the International Society for Environmental Ethics group session.
2016 annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Central, March 2-5, Chicago
APA Central 2016, Chicago, March 2-5, APA Central 2016.
Special issue in Ethics, Policy & Environment (Taylor & Francis)
This special issue co-edited with Kenneth Shockley appeared in Ethics, Policy & Environment (Vol. 18, issue 2, 2015). It brings specialists together for a close up look at the international negotiations on climate change before the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris. The contributors discuss new directions for ethics and equity in global governance […]
