A study of the Mexican Foreign Policy in the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Main Authors: Yu-Chuan Yang, 楊育銓
• Other Authors: Hsiu-chi Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pkb2g3

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 美洲研究所碩士班 === 106 === The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Conference (COP15), held by the United Nations in Copenhagen in 2009, ended up leading to breakdown in the international climate negotiations between developed and developing countries, given that during the conference developed countries conducted negotiations without transparency and democracy, which also hurt severely the multilateralism, as a mechanism for solutions to international disputes. In an effort to recover every UNFCCC signatory’s confidence in the multilateralism, Meixco, as host of COP16, needed to play an important role of mediator. Therefore, Mexico elaborated a COP 16 foreign strategy, in which it hoped to achieve a multilateral and political balance that could overcome differences and allow for broad and equitable participation in the process of climate change. Although this thesis focuses on the Mexico’s foreign policy at COP16, in the author’s view, it’s still necessary to conduct a discussion about the domestic and external factors in order to know why Calderón''s administration included the climate change issue in Mexico’s foreign policy as part of its international agenda.