Brief: Work in small groups to consider your own position(s) within some of these contexts and develop a studio-based experiment that explores, deepens, or extends them critically.
Documents of Legislation
The Agreement is a legally binding international treaty. The Agreement sets long-term goals to guide all nations to:
- Substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to hold global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
- Periodically assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of this agreement and its long-term goals.
- Provide financing to developing countries to mitigate climate change, strengthen resilience and enhance abilities to adapt to climate impacts.
The Paris Agreement provides a durable framework guiding the global effort for decades to come. It marks the beginning of a shift towards a net-zero emissions world. Implementation of the Agreement is also essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
How does the document claim positions through language and form?
- The document is a legally binding treaty/ contract among 197 nations. ( Global scale )
- It’s inclusive and neutral. An effort towards a common goal and future. The document considers how each nation comes from a different context and the process to achieve the same goal within the set duration might look different for each one.
How does this language and form impact how it is engaged with, circulated, (mis)trusted or understood?
- The agreement was signed by the leaders and directly addresses the policymakers.
- The passive nature of the language used does not force anything rather encourages, acknowledging the different capacities of each of the countries.
- Doesn’t boast a definite future but an overall goal. The only definite given is the duration within which the goal is supposed to be achieved.
- Doesn’t really state the urgency of the situation.
What other vocabularies does it reveal visually?
- A preamble
- A contract
- A vision
- An outline/ project proposal
What opportunities can graphic communication design provide in policy and legislative communication in the climate emergency?
- Can be used as a mirror but also reflect within ( ask questions of accountability )
- Translation
- Extracting subtexts
- Create transparency among stakeholders, who are the stakeholders, who are the policymakers
- Open communication/ awareness
- Exploring possibilities through transparency