The Public Sphere & Emergent Global Civil Society

Richard Widick – THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED – Archived – 9/27/16

EMERGENT GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Emergent global civil society can be seen as a planetary public sphere that is always already in the process of forming up.

                                                                                                              

The UNITED NATIONS & Emergent Global Civil Society

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) maintains this web page on Observer Organizations admitted to the climate talks.

NAZCA – The UNFCCC’s Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action:

“NAZCA captures the commitments to climate action by companies, cities, subnational, regions, investors, and civil society organizations.

The landmark universal agreement and decision to address climate change, adopted by 195 nations in Paris in 2015, welcomes the efforts of these actors to scale up their climate actions and encourages the registration of these actions on NAZCA.

NAZCA aims to track the mobilization and action that are helping countries achieve and exceed their national commitments to address climate change.”

We also highly recommend visiting the United Nations webpage on global civil society, where you will find a crucial link to the United Nations’ general effort to foster development of a global civil society: the NGO Relations section of the UN Department of Public Information (DPI-NGO).

The UN DPI-NGO conducts and publishes regular briefing on its at activities at Thursday Briefings.

The UN also maintains an exhaustive searchable NGO database and a database listing of NGOs by region in the NGO Section (ESANGO) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).  A careful study of this UN DESA pamphlet is a good place to begin.

                                                                                                               

CLIMATE JUSTICE – a contested term and an open project for emergent civil society

Patrick Bond of the Durban Centre for Civil Society provides an excellent source on the concept of climate justice, its history and the organizations and events that have purveyed the idea as a departure from mainstream climate politics and movements.

In this section of our Civil Society page, we compile the papers, reports, films and public lectures that we believe make useful, constitutive contributions to the public struggle over this term and thus to shaping the emergent global climate justice movement.

Mary Robinson and her Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.  In addition to visiting her site and reading her page titled Principles of Climate Justice, please watch this 2013 Lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.