The Stern Report and the depoliticization of the “economy of climate change”

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Juan Fernando Terán

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The author proposes, as in past decades, the government of the most industrialized countries have used scientific reports to legitimize their positions in negotiations within international regimes, to establish as priorities cooperation in development or to influence the actions of multilateral organizations. The article discusses the report entitled The Economy of Climate Change, presented to the British Government by Nicholas Stern, to outline some elements of this dimension of environmental governance.

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Juan Fernando Terán, Área de Estudios Sociales y Globales de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Sede Ecuador

Profesor e investigador del Área de Estudios Sociales y Globales de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador, jfteran@uasb.edu.ec, Ecuador.

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Terán, Juan Fernando. 2007. “The Stern Report and the Depoliticization of the ‘economy of Climate change’”. Comentario Internacional: Journal of the Andean Center of International Studies, no. 8 (June): 169-86. https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/122.