<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of the problems and solutions. A new emergent frame of understanding could be detected in the press, which the author calls the ‘out-dated worldview’ frame. This frame contains a critique of the clear-cut division between developing vs. developed countries from the 1992 Rio Convention, and may influence how we understand burden-sharing roles in a new global climate deal. In an eager attempt to include all major polluters within a new climate regime, there is a danger that the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ will be ignored, which may be an attempt to excuse the rich industrialized countries from their responsibility after 150 years of benefitting from fossil-fuel-driven development.</p></abstract>

The UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of the problems and solutions. A new emergent frame of understanding could be detected in the press, which the author calls the ‘out-dated worldview’ frame. This frame contains a critique of the clear-cut division between developing vs. developed countries from the 1992 Rio Convention, and may influence how we understand burden-sharing roles in a new global climate deal. In an eager attempt to include all major polluters within a new climate regime, there is a danger that the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ will be ignored, which may be an attempt to excuse the rich industrialized countries from their responsibility after 150 years of benefitting from fossil-fuel-driven development.

Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime

Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Nordicom Review

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South African and Norwegian Media Coverage of COP17

The UN summit on climate change in Durban constituted an important moment in the continuous discourse on how to understand climate change and the framing of...

Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime

Published Online: Jun 09, 2015

Page range: 35 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0004

Keywords
climate deal, climate negotiations, COP17, Kyoto Protocol, climate framing, climate representations

© by Jill Johannessen

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Worldview Struggles under a New Climate Regime

Published Online: Jun 09, 2015

Page range: 35 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0004

Keywordsclimate deal, climate negotiations, COP17, Kyoto Protocol, climate framing, climate representations

© by Jill Johannessen

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
climate deal, climate negotiations, COP17, Kyoto Protocol, climate framing, climate representations