Children are the future? Power, generation and environmental practices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Ethical Argument ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Is Offshoring

This chapter talks about how children are often responsibilised in environmental policy and media discourses in both India and the UK. Abstract evocations of future generations materialise in many areas of climate change policy, based on the ethical argument that, as those imagined to outlive current generations of adults, children have the most to gain from activities and policies seeking to sustain the environments of which they are a part. Yet the centring of children in discourses of climate change impact and response is not without practical and ethical problems. Positioning children as ‘undercover agents of change’ for the environmental movement is as much an abrogation of responsibility for what are essentially the damaging environmental practices of adults, as is offshoring environmental responsibility to the next generation of stewards of the earth.

Future of climate change will depend on China

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Subject China's climate change policy. Significance The Trump administration’s planned withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the UK government’s preoccupation with Brexit have allowed China to present itself as a global leader on climate change. Ahead of the COP26 summit in the United Kingdom next November, countries and negotiating blocs such as the EU will focus on China as a major emitter that needs to increase its pledges to avoid a business-as-usual trajectory. Impacts Germany, holding the EU presidency for July-December 2020, will be key to new China-EU diplomatic arrangements on climate change. An EU-China summit in Leipzig during the German presidency will put climate change high on the agenda. At COP26, the United Kingdom is likely to emphasise finance, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and the Green economy. The UK government may also emphasise long-term ‘net zero’ commitments, as it has made to 2050. Inadequate national targets and slow progress in UN talks will fuel grassroots activism and calls for radical approaches.

Climate Change Discourses in the UK General Election in 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650002
Author(s):  
Sidan WANG
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
General Election ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
The Eu

There is a wide range of researches on climate change policy and politics at the European and global level. However, the existing studies ignore the importance of understanding climate change discourses and politics in the UK particularly during the General Election. The General Election in 2015 will influence the post-2015 climate change politics and policy in the UK. Further, the UK’s potential withdrawal from the EU poses a threat to the existing arrangement of climate change politics. This paper argues how different climate change discourses among main political parties influence climate policy options in the UK.

scholarly journals How Do Different Frames Affect Public Support for Climate Change Policy: Evidence from a Multi-Country Conjoint Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niheer Dasandi ◽  
Hilary Graham ◽  
David Hudson ◽  
Slava Jankin Mikhaylov ◽  
Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mitigation Policies

This study tests the effects of different framings of climate change messages on public support for mitigation policy using conjoint survey experiments conducted in five countries: China, Germany, India, the UK, and the USA. We consider four different types of climate change frames: valence (positive vs. negative), theme (economic, environmental, health, and migration), scale (individual, community, country, and global), and timeframe (2050, 2030, now). The analysis also tests the effects of these different frames on individuals who are not concerned by the effects of climate change. Our results show a positive framing, in terms of the opportunities they provide, increases support for mitigation policies. We also find that an environmental and health framing of climate change increases public support for mitigation, while a migration framing reduces public support, and an economic framing has no effect. The results also show that framing climate change at a global level elicit greater public support for mitigation than at an individual level, and discussing the current impacts of climate change leads to greater support than future impacts. Our analysis also finds that a positive framing and a health framing of climate change also increase support for mitigation policies among those not concerned by the effects of climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Change Policy:

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Anil Patel ◽  
Olivia June Bloodworth ◽  
Vishal Ashok Kumar Unnadkat ◽  
Seetal Assi ◽  
Ashni Asit Badiani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Revenue Recycling ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

With the UK leaving the EU in 2020, its policies to combat climate change currently remain undecided. One policy discussed in this report is a carbon tax. This report finds that implementation of a carbon tax will require a favourable political climate, public attention and an appropriate cost, with a starting price of £40 per tonne of CO2 emitted, gradually rising to £100-125/tCO2 (1). Also, to be politically acceptable, there must also be ‘revenue recycling’, with some of the proceeds of the carbon tax being redirected to public services (2,3).

scholarly journals Environment in the Lives of Children and Families

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Janet Boddy ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Uma Vennam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Discourses

This book presents innovative international research into how the term “environment” is understood within families and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, the book shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change. The book explores the situated, dynamic, and relational complexities, and of the ways in which space, place, and time intersect with meanings of environment in the everyday lives of children and families. It looks at the sort of environmental issues that families in India and the UK negotiate, and how children are often responsibilised in environmental policy and media discourses in both India and the UK.

Copenhagen Agreement - A New Paradigm of Climate Problem Solving

2010 ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Agibalov ◽  
A. Kokorin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
New Order ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policy ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Change Policy

Copenhagen summit results could be called a failure. This is the failure of UN climate change policy management, but definitely the first step to a new order as well. The article reviews main characteristics of climate policy paradigm shifts. Russian interests in climate change policy and main threats are analyzed. Successful development and implementation of energy savings and energy efficiency policy are necessary and would sufficiently help solving the global climate change problem.

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