Creating a Climate of Convenience: Australia's Response to Global Climate Change (1996–2007)

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Issue Framing ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Normative Implications

This article discusses how issue framing and nondecision-making shaped Australia's response to global climate change between 1996 and 2007. The complex and multi-dimensional nature of global climate change enabled state and non-state actors to selectively highlight certain aspects of the issue, thereby framing it as a specific problem with corresponding solutions. The case of Australia provides an interesting example of how such conscious framing, together with underlying institutional biases, may suppress important aspects of global climate change and ensure they are kept off the political agenda. This article unravels four narratives that are evident in the former Australian Government's framing of global climate change during this period. The nondecisions which are embedded within these narratives have important normative implications which will be explored.

Air Pollution

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
European Policies

This chapter compares regulations that address the risks of air pollution—one of the most critical dimensions of environmental regulation. It specifically examines the policies in the United States and Europe and their decisions toward the health and environmental risks of mobile (vehicular) source pollutants, ozone-depleting chemicals, and global climate change. The politics of global climate change reveals a very divergent pattern. In this case, the preferences of American policy makers were more polarized than in Europe. American public policies toward the risks of global climate change have been significantly affected by partisan differences, which increased substantially during the 1990s. By contrast, European policies toward global climate change have been much less affected by differences in the political preferences of center-left and center-right policy makers.

A driver in every car: when the auto industry says jump, do governments say “how high?”

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre André Buigues
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Infant Industry ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic and political conditions that could explain why the governments in developed economies have intervened in the automobile industry. The author identifies the main reasons and the shortcomings of these public interventions. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents different forms of public intervention in the automobile industry of various countries over the past few decades: infant industry, research and development (R&D), global climate change and global systemic crisis. Findings The automobile sector is viewed by governments as a key sector and is subsidised for different reasons at different periods. The paper shows that governments give different reasons for public intervention in the automobile industry (infant industry, global climate change, R&D externalities, the global financial crisis, etc.). Whatever the theory, in practice, public interventions have a strong impact on the industry and its evolution. Practical implications The paper highlights the importance for car manufacturers of monitoring the political initiatives of public authorities, which can affect the technological evolution of the automobile industry. Social implications For households, the purchase of a car is quite important, and the political orientation of public subsidies in favour of one option over another, such as electric vehicles or an autonomous car, affects their choice. Originality/value The paper examines an issue which has not previously been addressed by journals, yet which is crucial, i.e. the impact of government decisions on the evolution of an industry. The approach can also be applied to other sectors.

scholarly journals COP Paris is an incomplete agreement [1], we need a complete agreement, that will probably is COP Hanoi

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
To Come ◽  
Near Future

We need a complete agreement to implement the fight against global climate change as quickly and efficiently as possible, and Nguyen Dan, a Vietnamese citizen, announced the successful research, it’s the project “overcoming the greenhouse effect to combat global climate change, protecting the living environment” [2-6]. This new method can be seen the Vietnamese method [4, 5]. Thus an international meeting in Hanoi to discuss the work that COP Paris has not completed is probably understandable. On the other hand, the Vietnamese people are very friendly and hospitable, the political and social environment in Vietnam is very secure, Hanoi has organized many successful international meetings. From here in this article I will call COP Hanoi temporarily to mention this necessary meeting in the near future to come to a complete agreement.

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