This article questions the hierarchical assumptions of theories of “traveling models” by examining how politicians and environmental activists from the three major regions of the Pacific have contributed to global climate change policy regimes. The Marshall Islands successfully lobbied the international climate change community to ensure that the signatories to the Paris Agreement are committed to keeping the global temperature rise during the current century to “well below” 2°C, while “pursuing efforts” to limit the average temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. In its role as the host of the twenty‐third annual Conference of the Parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Fiji drew on the self‐scaling Pacific speech genre of talanoa to facilitate dialogue and cooperation between the signatories of the Paris Agreement. The successful institution of Talanoa Dialogues at UN climate change meetings was not just a branding exercise, but an ideological project of encompassment. Although the Solomon Islands has a lower international profile, its responses to climate change suggest new ways of thinking about the relationship between local environmental knowledge and scientific models, and provides valuable feedback on new forms of aid focused on adaptation. [climate change, traveling theory, talanoa, Pacific Islands, United Nations]

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为什么太平洋岛民不再担心世界末日而开始应对气候变化

本文通过考察来自太平洋三个主要地区的政治家和环境活动家如何对全球气候变化政策体系做出了贡献，对“旅行模型”理论的分层假设提出了质疑。马绍尔群岛成功游说国际气候变化界，以确保《巴黎协定》的签署国致力于将本世纪的全球温度上升保持在“远低于” 2°C的水平，同时“努力”限制平均温度升高到比工业化前水平高1.5°C。斐济担任1992年《联合国气候变化框架公约》第二十三届缔约国年度会议的东道国，借鉴了塔拉诺亚的自缩放式太平洋言论类型促进《巴黎协定》签署国之间的对话与合作。在联合国气候变化会议上成功建立“塔拉努阿对话”机构不仅是一项品牌推广活动，而且是一个意识形态项目。尽管所罗门群岛在国际上的地位较低，但其对气候变化的反应提出了思考当地环境知识与科学模式之间关系的新方法，并就侧重于适应的新型援助提供了宝贵的反馈意见。[气候变化，旅行理论，塔拉诺阿，太平洋岛屿，联合国]