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Arnold Bomans
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Decision Change
The preparations for COP29 display a “shameful lack of commitment” according to Partha Hefaz Shaikh (1); and the Summit of the Future (Sept. 2024) does not even list climate on its official agenda (2). Obviously, we need an alternative procedure to decide on an integral approach to the many crises. The United Nations University proposed multi-lateralism to bypass the veto-model but it also acknowledges that `States continue to play a central role’ (3). So, there arises the need to DESIGN a procedure to decide on nothing less than system change. The process of designing such a procedure (`decision change’) is a complicated affair but fortunately, we can tap on a large body of knowledge and expertise about decision-making as such, for example, deliberation techniques, voting mechanisms, and problem analysis. Therefore, I call on organizations to form a global, coordinating team that completes the following tasks:
1. Convene decision-making experts and others (jointly called the decision-change body) to design a procedure for deciding on system change,
2. Collect system-change proposals, and
3. Guarantee that the resulting procedure is used to process these proposals and decide on system change.
Notably, the decision-change body does not decide on system change but how others (the decision-making body) decides on system change.
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The final result may be perceived as legitimate because many, possibly unorthodox, system-change proposals have been processed using a well-founded procedure. However, the necessary measures probably will not be easy to bear and they are likely to be obstructed by vested interests. So it offers an uncertain route but the present path has already led us beyond 1.6 degrees (4) and is sure to lead us deeper down the abyss.
More information is on www.decisionchange.net and in the scientific underpinnings (5).
If you represent an organization that can support, or hire, the global coordinating team, then set decision change in motion.
(1) Partha Hefaz Shaikh (June 12, 2024) Bonn makes only lukewarm progress to tackle a red-hot climate crisis. Climate News.
Bonn makes only lukewarm progress to tackle the climate crisis
At the mid-year UN talks in Bonn, negotiators have made little progress in aiding those affected by the climate crisis.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/06/12/bonn-makes-only-lukewarm-progress-to-tackle-a-red-hot-climate-crisis/
(2) United Nations General Assembly (8 Sept. 2022) Resolution 76/307. Modalities for the Summit of the Future.
https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/76/307
(3) High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (2023) A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future. United Nations University.
https://highleveladvisoryboard.org/breakthrough/pdf/56892_UNU_HLAB_report_Final_LOWRES.pdf
(4) Copernicus Institute (Feb. 2024) Surface air temperature for February 2024.
Surface air temperature for February 2024 | Copernicus
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-february-2024
(5) Arnold J. Bomans and Peter Roessingh (March 13, 2024) Decision Change: The First Step to System Change. Sustainability, 16(6), 2372.
Decision Change: The First Step to System Change
Global crises, such as climate change and ecological collapse, require changes in systemic factors that cause the crises. These factors include the economy, population growth, and decision-making in global affairs. Current decision-making processes have failed to accomplish the required system change, necessitating a change to these processes (‘decision change’) for meaningful progress. The key question is how a procedure for deciding on the required system change should be designed in this setting. In this essay, we propose a three-step approach. First, independent experts in collective decision-making should design this procedure under monitoring by auxiliary bodies that safeguard the design process; second, proposals for system change should be collected; third, based on these proposals, system change should be designed and decided upon using the new decision-making procedure. We argue that authority can be given to the new decision-making body that decides on system change. A global team must convene the decision-making experts and auxiliary bodies, collect system-change proposals, and guarantee that the decision-making process is facilitated. We call on individuals and independent organisations to form such a team or support its formation.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su16062372
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