Multi-Scalar Practices of the Korean State in Global Climate Politics: The Case of the Global Green Growth Institute

Antipode ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Tae Hwang ◽  
Sang-Hun Lee ◽  
Detlef Müller-Mahn
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Korean State

scholarly journals The construction of a growth-oriented global climate agenda: a critical historical analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cati Torres ◽  
Joan Moranta ◽  
Ivan Murray
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Socioeconomic Metabolism

By the end of 2019, more than 11,000 world scientists declared Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency, which signals the failure of the global climate agenda (GCA). Since it took off thirty years ago, emissions have continued to increase at the planetary level. We add to the literature focusing on the economic and political dimensions shaping the GCA. In particular, we examine its economic growth roots under the umbrella of sustainable development (SD) or green growth to shed some light on whether the rules driving the world economy are shaping it. Such rules are built on the growth ideology fuelling the current extractivist socioeconomic metabolism, which in turn lies behind the socioecological crisis. We review the main international climate-focused events and document a shift in the guiding principles of climate politics from the 1980s onwards under which growth is no longer viewed as a driver of climate change (CC) but as its solution. We argue that the strategy to promote growth-based SD represents the main cause of policy failure. Indeed, the result is a policy that is highly reliant on technological solutions and market-based instruments and leads to the belief that green growth is both possible and the solution to CC. Such a belief restricts the debate to the economy’s ‘decarbonisation’ and CC adaptation and overlooks other important socio-political aspects involve in climate action.

Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Iris Allan ◽  
Jennifer Hadden
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Politics

scholarly journals How news media (de-)legitimize national and international climate politics – A content analysis of newspaper coverage in five countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 518-540
Author(s):  
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw ◽  
Senja Post ◽  
Mike S Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
National Level ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
International Climate

Implementing global climate change policies on the national and sub-national level requires the support of many societal actors. This support depends on the perceived legitimacy of climate policies, which can be sustained by legitimation debates in domestic news media. This article analyses legitimation statements on climate politics in newspapers of five countries for three Conferences of the Parties in 2004, 2009 and 2014 ( n = 369 legitimation statements). According to our data, it is mainly the legitimacy of international climate policies (instead of national ones) which is evaluated in national fora, and it is usually portrayed negatively. However, there is a noticeable shift in the arguments used over our 10-year period of analysis, moving from efficiency as the dominating evaluation criterion to questions of fairness in the distribution of costs and gains.

The Globalization of Carbon Trading: Transnational Business Coalitions in Climate Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Meckling
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the policy instrument of choice in the industrialized world to address global climate change. In this article I argue that a transnational business coalition, representing mostly energy firms and energy-intensive manufacturers, actively promoted the global rise of carbon trading. In this process, business was able to draw on the support of government allies and business-oriented environmental groups, particularly in the UK and the US. Alongside its allies, the coalition had pivotal influence in the internationalization of carbon trading through the Kyoto Protocol, in the U-turn of the EU from skeptic to frontrunner on carbon trading and in the re-import of carbon trading to the US. While business was not able to prevent mandatory emission controls, it was able to critically affect the regulatory style of climate policy in favor of low-cost, market-based options.

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