Chaire de recherche du Canada en ÉPI
Team
Annabelle Olivier est étudiante à la maîtrise en science politique à l’Université Laval. Sous la direction, d’Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh, elle s’intéresse aux phénomènes politiques entourant les changements climatiques. Une question centrale structure ses intérêts scientifiques : « Comment motiver les gens à lutter, individuellement ou collectivement, contre les changements climatiques ? ».
Intérêts de recherche
Acceptabilité sociale des mesures climatiques ; attitudes environnementales ; communication climatique ; transition énergétique
Policy reports
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Olivier, A., and Morin, JF. 2025. Climate Mainstreaming in Environmental Treaties. IDOS Policy Brief 17/2025. https://doi.org/10.23661/ipb17.2025
Are climate treaties, like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or the Paris Agreement, the only way forward for intergovernmental climate cooperation? Among the hundreds of multilateral environmental treaties, 383 have established a collective decision-making body. This policy brief examines whether decisions made by these collective bodies can advance climate commitments. It finds that those decisions increasingly mainstreamed climate considerations since 1990. Today, climaterelated decisions account for around 10% of regulatory decisions adopted under environmental treaties. Some treaty regimes are particularly active in addressing climate change, such as those focused on energy, freshwater, and habitat and ocean, with up to 60% of their decisions addressing climate change. In contrast, treaties regulating agriculture and fisheries are less engaged in climate mainstreaming. These results demonstrate that environmental treaties that do not specifically focus on climate change can still contribute to shaping climate governance, though some do so more than others. This policy brief concludes with a set of recommendations for treaty negotiators, secretariats, governments, climate activists as well as scholars seeking to advance global cooperation on climate change through other means than climate treaties.