Framing Climate Change: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Generating Advocacy Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Nabi ◽  
Abel Gustafson ◽  
Risa Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Message Effectiveness ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Gain Loss ◽  
Loss Framing ◽  
Gain Loss Framing

Substantial research examines the cognitive factors underlying proenviron-mental message effectiveness. In contrast, this study investigates the role of emotion, fear and hope specifically, in the gain/loss framing of environmental policy initiatives. The 2 (threat vs. no threat) × 2 (gain- vs. loss-framed efficacy) experiment revealed emotion, especially hope, as a key mediator between gain-framed messages and desired climate change policy attitudes and advocacy. Results further supported the value of sequencing emotional experiences to enhance persuasive effect. This research offers an inaugural test of emotional flow theorizing and highlights the need for additional research on emotional processes in environmental communication.

Learning about Climate Change: Finance Ministries in International Climate Change Politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
International Climate Change

In the course of the last four years, finance ministries have increasingly become involved in the international climate change negotiations. Their involvement has to a large degree been an outcome of the framing of climate change as a market failure. This framing calls for an active climate change policy and is at odds with the framing of climate change policy that was previously predominant in finance ministries: that it constitutes expenditure to be avoided. The persistence of both framings has led to clashes within and between finance ministries with respect to climate change. The article calls for further research focusing on the role of the two frames and of finance ministries as actors in climate change politics.

Revenues of the EU ETS Auctioning and Their Impact on Budgetary Allocation

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Kamilla Marchewka-Bartkowiak ◽  
Klaudia Jarno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Eu Ets ◽  
Policy Rules ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Budgetary Allocation ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter offers insight into the role of EU ETS auction revenues from the perspective of a public sector and implementation of climate change policy rules. The final part of the chapter presents a detailed analysis of the Poland case in the years 2013-2019. The analyses conducted revealed that the revenues acquired from emission allowances auctioning impacted the state of public finance in Poland to a lesser degree than projected. At the same time, it was also revealed that the currently applied solution in Poland in terms of qualifying revenues from auctioning and spending funds in accordance with the provisions of Directive 2003/87/EC fails to be transparent and does not promote additionality of actions taken.

The Role of Regional Governments in Climate Change Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibon Galarraga ◽  
Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino ◽  
Anil Markandya
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Regional Governments

scholarly journals Weaponizing the EPA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Climate Agreements ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Political Partisanship

In its broadest sense, presidential control encompasses all the actions, in both word and deed, whereby presidents "go it alone" to adopt policies in the absence of congressional will to do so, and sometimes directly contrary to it. This dissertation studies how President Obama used rhetorical and administrative tools of presidential control to address the "wicked problem" of climate change. The "administrative presidency" and the "rhetorical presidency" are familiar political science terms, but in the case of climate change policy, they appear to be moving policymaking in a new and perhaps profound direction, which this study refers to as "post-deliberative policymaking." Applying these two areas of scholarship together to the wicked problem of climate change creates a helpful window through which to study how President Obama utilized administrative and rhetorical strategies and tools during his presidency. In particular, the study examines how he rhetorically constructed and rationalized his use of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement federal climate change regulations via the federal Clean Power Plan. Among the insights revealed by this analysis are how President Obama, in an age of acute political partisanship and polarization, positioned the role of the bureaucracy, how he invoked executive power, and what his actions reveal and may portend about executive views of democratic institutions and norms. This dissertation analyzes President Obama's rhetoric through a study of his speeches from 2009 through 2015 that explicitly or implicitly reference climate change, greenhouse gases, and the Clean Power Plan, but also related topics, such as energy policy and climate agreements.

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