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Every country is a polluter and a victim of anthropogenic climate change. Inextricably linked, every greenhouse gas emitted from every corner of the world changes the atmospheric composition of the climate system. Viewing the climate change problem from this lens, every person from every country must play its part in mitigating and adapting to climate change. And every country is a developing country, in the sense of universality as conveyed by "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" (2030 Agenda). Goal 13 of the 2030 Agenda specifically recognises the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as the primary forum of global climate governance. However, progress for legally binding quantified emissions reductions limitations (QERLs) mitigation targets under the UNFCCC-style multilateralism framework has yet to produce an effective response to the threat of global warming. The gap between currently pledged QERLs trajectories and global emissions levels consistent with limiting global warming to 2oC Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures remains large. It is therefore not surprising that a growing number of minilateralism-style proposals (e.g. climate clubs) have emerged in the literature as a way forward to promote QERLs actions in the post 2015 Paris Climate Summit era. This paper explores how climate clubs could potentially assist in catalysing greater international cooperation for effective QERLs actions. The paper then specifically investigates how the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) could assist in pioneering emerging international cooperation efforts to establish climate clubs to fast track QERLs actions. What makes AOSIS's epic quest to be a member of the international climate clubs movement so important is the question of whether it can help navigate the international community towards using climate minilaterism-style clubs to complement UNFCCC-style multilaterism in the post 2015 Paris Climate Summit era.

While small island developing states (SIDS) are micro-contributors to anthropogenic climate change, they are among the most vulnerable to its impacts, with some islands even facing the possibility of extinction. Recognising their vital stake in an effective climate regime, small island states formed a negotiating group, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), to represent their interests in the international climate negotiations. Given their limited power, however, to what extent, and by what means, did AOSIS impact the climate regime? Assuming that both the process and outcome of negotiations depend largely on power, this article argues that low-power parties can nonetheless exert influence in international negotiations by 'borrowing' power, that is, by drawing on external power sources. A framework for analysis is thus developed and used to assess AOSIS's negotiating strategies and respective successes in the climate change regime from 1990 to 1997. As the analysis reveals, AOSIS made use of external sources of power over this period, and shaped the negotiations to a remarkable degree, much more so than the a priori power distribution would predict.

A migração ambiental tem ganhado destaque, nas últimas décadas, como a dimensão humana dos impactos da mudança climática e como efetiva estratégia de adaptação para comunidades em regiões vulneráveis. Este artigo analisa como a migração ambiental é apresentada no discurso da Aliança dos Pequenos Estados Insulares (AOSIS), grupo de negociação dos países mais afetados pelo aquecimento global, no regime internacional de mudança cli- mática. Através da análise de fontes primárias, constata-se que o processo migratório é utilizado como legitimador moral das propostas de mitigação da AOSIS, sem ser considerado como proposta de adaptação. Diante de aparente incoerência entre o uso da migração no discurso e a ausência de medidas efetivas de adaptação, apresenta-se possíveis explicações sob quatro aspectos: político, cultural, técnico e estrutural.

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