Visualizing Co-production: The IPCC's Strategies for Scientific Authority and Global Political Collaboration on Climate Change
Overview
This paper examines the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as both an agent and product of co-production between science and politics. It analyzes how the IPCC constructed credibility and authority through two primary strategies: globalizing atmospheric discourse and articulating a new model of science-politics relations. The paper argues that climate change illustrates the fundamental entanglement of scientific and political issues in global governance.
What this essay covers
- Introduction establishing the IPCC's role in framing climate as a global concern
- Analysis of co-production dynamics and the IPCC's institutional strategies for credibility
- Examination of the two core production strategies: globalization of atmosphere discourse and science-politics model innovation
- Discussion of how climate change problems demonstrate the entanglement of scientific and political issues
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Visualizing Co-production
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Diagram of the IPCC
PRODUCT OF CO-PRODUCTION
- Absence of independent causal prime movers.
- How micro-and macro-strategies and dynamics connect.
AGENT
- Articulating a narrative for global politics
- Institutional and rhetorical resources in scientific claims
IPCC (Agent & Product of co-production)
What are scientific understandings of climate reflected in the formation of the IPCC? Furthermore, what did the IPCC do from there to make clear the necessity of a global politics of climate?
The issue of climate being a global concern is reflected in IPCC formation. Previously, the issue was restricted within certain geographical boundaries in contrast to other locations. IPCC was awarded significant power to define challenges as knowledge experts and politically neutral agents.
Which strategies did the IPCC adopt to produce credibility and authority for its scientific agenda, thereby turning a specific scientific vision into a form of (yes, fraught!) intergovernmental political collaboration?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explored two strategies of core production;
- Globalization of the atmosphere through the construction of a discourse framing climate change as a risk to the global environment.
- IPCC articulation of a new model of science and politics.
Through the above strategies, coordination and cooperation between nations will be enhanced, thereby promoting political collaboration.
How do some of the problems that occurred illustrate the entanglement of scientific and political issues?
The globalization of politics leads to weak institutional frameworks, which are having an impact on international relations.