| dc.description.abstract | Climate Change has emerged across the world as a burning issue, which is posing increasing challenges to the human existence in the earth. In a recent period, effect of climate change has grown enormously making almost impossible for a single country to cope with its impacts. Keeping in view the gravity of the situation, international attention has increased with international community coming into a single forum to mitigate worsening effects of climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation, which is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol, has become a negotiating forum to seek measures to combat the challenges created by the climate change.
The main objective of this thesis is to find out how Nepal, a developing country, has been affected by deepening climate change effects, attempts being made to sensitize the issues of climate change global negotiations and various factors influencing the framing and forwarding of Nepal’s concerns in international climate negotiations. I, then compare Nepal’s experience with the international relations theory focusing on Liberalism and Realism.
This thesis illustrates the latest developments and updates on global climate negotiations besides exposing the facts regarding the effects of climate change on Nepal that led to policy intervention in the country.
As a developing country, Nepal has sought technical and financial support as being enjoyed by other developing countries to fight climate change effects. On the other hand, Nepal has also been making efforts itself for last few years to uplift the profile of other land-locked Himalayan nations that are suffered by the worsening effects of the climate change.
These kinds of initiations have strengthened the political clout of Nepal paving the way for securing greater financial and technical assistance from developed countries in the international climate regime to enable the country to fight impacts of climate change.
The secondary aim of this thesis is to study whether international climate negotiations are realist or liberal from Nepal’s prospective and also whether Nepal, as an example of developing
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countries, follows a liberal or realist logic. My research suggests that international climate negotiations are characterized by aspect that could be seen as realist or liberal and that Nepal follows a liberal logic, in part as a counterweight to realist and power politics aspects of international climate negotiations.
In the research methodology, the semi-structured was taken with different personnel from government, NGOs and INGOs. The document analysis was also done along with the reports of Earth Negotiations Bulletins especially the volume 12 related to the UNFCCC in which Nepal raised important issues in the negotiations. The primary data were collected from the interviews while others are the secondary data obtained from the reports, articles and online newspapers. The historical evolution of the climate change along with the factors influencing the international negotiations in shaping and framing the country were also analyzed on it. The inductive approach was used in the thesis. | no_NO |
