Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on International Climate Change Mitigation Narratives
| dc.contributor.author | Peck, Mairin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T18:19:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T18:19:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2007, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa presented an audacious climate change mitigation plan to the world: Ecuador would leave 846 million barrels of crude oil untouched beneath the Amazon if the global community reciprocated with a contribution of 3.6 billion dollars – half of the oil’s market value (McAvoy 27). The Yasuní-ITT Initiative, named after the area it sought to save, vowed to preserve immense biodiversity, protect indigenous groups, and prevent the emission of 410 million tons of carbon dioxide (Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues). In 2013, Correa abandoned the initiative, lamenting the lack of international support, and approved oil drilling in the Yasuní (Correa, “Anuncio a la Nación” 3). The purpose of this investigation was to identify and examine the various narratives employed in the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, with the hope of discovering transferrable conclusions for other global mitigation efforts. This project relied heavily on speeches, government documents, and media accounts in both English and Spanish to identify common narratives, while secondary scholarly articles were used to frame the analysis. The narratives deployed in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative common but unequal responsibility for climate change, a reconceptualization of value, and Ecuador as martyr and revolutionary – reflect a framework that simultaneously criticized and sought authority from the capitalist ideal. The failure of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative to capture the hearts and wallets of the world provides insight into the dominant global forces and perspectives on climate change mitigation policy. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5399/uo/ourj.8.1.3 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2160-617X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23448 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Yasuni-ITT Initiative | en_US |
| dc.subject | Climate change | en_US |
| dc.subject | Climate change mitigation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ecuador | en_US |
| dc.title | Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on International Climate Change Mitigation Narratives | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |