Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’

Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’

At the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney proclaimed “a rupture” in the global “rules-based order” and a turn to great power rivalry. While its demise is not certain, even the current disruption to global order, largely due to the Donald Trump administration in the United States, promises profound impacts on the global response to climate change. The world is at risk of losing even the insufficient pr…

White skin, white masks of colonialism: Canada’s double standards in Davos and the fiction of ‘rules-based order’

Prime Minister and banker Mark Carney’s speech at Davos has generated admiration in many sectors of Canadian society and beyond. It was celebrated as a bold call to defend “democratic values” and sovereignty in the face of a world in crisis. However, it also invites an uncomfortable reflection: what happens when the mirror we use […]