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"A proposal aimed at saving the world's tropical forests suffered a setback Sunday, when negotiators at the UN climate talks ditched plans for faster action on the problem because of concerns that rich countries aren't willing to finance it."
- Backwards step for forest deal
"For a long time the predominant opinion was that the pressure of an “objective” problem was enough to initiate solution orientated processes. This was based on a fundamental trust that all problems today or in the future could be successfully dealt with through technology and science (Ulbert 1997; Meyer et al. 2005). This approach veiled the actual processes of defining and solving problems in a cloud of apoliticalness (Latour 2006). Nowadays, the political nature of decision-making processes is becoming more visible. This focuses the view on all the different actors involved and on their interests. There are different actors active in the climate discourse as are in the discourse on disasters and in both fields different political and economic interests play a role (Schipper 2008). However, in both discourses the amount of capital available to the individual parties involved has a structural effect on the agenda: It has a major influence on when and what is negotiated, what framework or set of rules is used for the negotiations, and who may participate (Voss 2008). Consequently, capital distribution is responsible for forming an understanding of the problem and the solutions which are to be achieved, before the official negotiations have even started. Thus capital ownership means that interests can be powerfully pursued, it determines the participative capacity."
- Voss, M. (2008) The vulnerable can’t speak. An integrative vulnerability approach to disaster and climate change research. In: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 2008, 3 (39–56)
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