scholarly journals The Political Debate on Climate Change in Italy: A Discourse Network Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Ghinoi ◽  
Bodo Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Collective Goals

Climate change is considered by policymakers as one of the most pressing global issues of our time. International institutions and national governments are, to varying degrees, committed to tackling climate change, but it has only been possible to define a shared system of collective goals across countries through the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21). A growing interest in climate change policy has been present in the Italian political debate, yet we have little evidence regarding the nature of related climate change debates across Italian policymakers. By using Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) to investigate Italian policymakers’ discourses in the Chamber of Deputies during the 17th Italian Legislature (2013–2018), this study shows that debates on climate change-related strategies are largely unpolarized, except for certain issues, and that coalitions emerge over time around core strategies. Groups of policymakers with similar policy beliefs emerge independently from their political affiliations. Our analysis is thus the first to apply DNA to provide empirical evidence of the convergence across Italian policymakers and the potential for the bridging of political discourses on climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Change Policy and Power Sector Reform in Mexico under the Golden Age of Gas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
José María Valenzuela ◽  
Isabel Studer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Term Energy ◽  
The One

Mexico’s low-carbon technology perspectives show lack of coherence with the rising ambition in climate change commitments, for which Mexico is internationally praised. The comparison of two recent energy reforms, corresponding to two administrations, explains this lack of coherence by, on the one hand, the permanence of a strong climate institutional framework devised as a means to increase energy security and, on the other hand, the political commitment to reduce electricity tariffs through the access to low-priced gas in North America. The chapter underscores the political economy trade-offs between the need for a strong climate commitment that provides a stable long-term energy transition pathway and the political and economic short-term benefits derived from low electricity tariffs.

scholarly journals Two Birds with One Stone: The political and environmental motives of Quebec’s climate change policy

Federalism-E ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Rebecca Teare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Political Dispute

In 2000 Quebec was about to host its provincial counterparts for that year’s Joint Meeting of Ministers of the Environment and Energy in an effort to work in unison for the benefit of all Canadians and the environment. Quebec’s Ministers were clear about their position on climate change policy. In their province, Quebec’s policy will prevail. Federalism lies at the heart of the political dispute between Quebec and the federal government over the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Quebec has pressured the federal government to maintain its commitments to the international community, and has been critical of its approach to meeting them. It has seriously considered the commitments Canada has made, and in the process, diverged from federal climate change policy by taking a more global perspective. This has enabled the province to generate greater provincial powers within Canada, in line with the Quebec Liberal Party’s concept of federalism. This essay will investigate climate change policy in Quebec after the Quiet Revolution, focusing on the differences between this province and the federal government’s approach to international climate change agreements—specifically the Kyoto Protocol. Quebec has developed firmer climate change policy than the federal government. While this is possible because of Quebec’s energy industry and the fact that it does not have to compromise with other jurisdictions in the federation, it has provided an additional outlet for the Quebecois sense of distinctiveness in Canada. This essay will argue that Quebec pursues a more ambitious climate change policy than the federal government in order to increase its provincial powers within the Canadian federation.[...]

scholarly journals Risk Assessment and Climate Change: The in-built Problems of Commission Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Jonas Dreger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
System Building ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Risk Transformation ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Eu Studies

This article provides an analysis of institutional biases - in other words, ‘parallax fallacies’ - in the European Commission’s risk management system. Building on sociological understandings of risk and the recent EU timescape approach in EU studies, we identify six potential fallacies: 1) a misrepresentation or underestimation of risk, 2) an unrepresentative estimation of risks, 3) normatively contestable estimations of risk, 4) an institutionally or functionally limited view on risk, 5) a blurred focus on the political aspect of the risk due to risk transformation, 6) a time-lagged risk assessment. These fallacies are evaluated with regard to the 2° Celsius target of the Commission’s climate change policy.

Government, Anti-Reflexivity, and the Construction of Public Ignorance about Climate Change: Australia and Canada Compared

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Young ◽  
Aline Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Recent Theoretical Work ◽  
Public Ignorance ◽  
John Howard

This article compares the political strategies used by conservative governments in Australia (John Howard) and Canada (Stephen Harper) to manage public impressions of climate change and climate change policy. These cases are significant in part because both governments acted against the weight of domestic public opinion. While many studies of political resistance to climate change mitigation focus on the role of denial, skepticism, and counter-claims, our comparison finds a significant role for what we call “affirmation techniques,” namely the rhetorical acceptance of the consensus position on climate change followed by concerted attempts to control precisely what acceptance means. We draw on recent theoretical work on anti-reflexivity and the sociology of ignorance to explain the political effectiveness of these strategies.

scholarly journals How do Problems get on to the Political Agenda and get Taken Seriously by Policymakers? An Analysis of Climate Change Policy in the US

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (IV) ◽  
pp. 621-628
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ali Shah ◽  
Shaukat ◽  
Hina Malik
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Earth Temperature

The issue of climate change is not of the recent past. However, it was late in the nineteenth century in the US that the phenomenon was defined and framed as an issue of public interest by those who say it mattered. The reason was the occurrence of indicators such as a rise in earth temperature and prolonged summer season. The mass displacement of people from their places of inhibits and damages to their properties forced the government to take the issue seriously. A change in the administration in the federal capital, along with pressure from civil society and demand from various groups to resolve the issue of climate change, proved to be something that ultimately led to the resolution of the issue and taken seriously by the government of the day. While answering the question of how the issue of climate change made its way to the agenda-setting stage of policymaking, Jhon Kingdon model of agendasetting has been applied, which is more relevant and acceptable in terms of conceptual logics and the issue at hand.

scholarly journals Whose environment?: the end of nature, climate change and the process of post-politicization

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Swyngedouw
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The Third ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Western Democracies

The paper explores how the elevation of the environmental question, in particular the problem of climate change, to a global and consensually established public concern is both a marker of and constituent force in the production of de-politicization. The paper has four parts. First, I problematize the question of Nature and the environment. Second, the case of climate change policy is presented as cause célèbre of de-politicization. The third part relates this argument to the views of political theorists who argue that the political constitution of western democracies is increasingly marked by the consolidation of post-political and post-democratic arrangements. Fourth, I discuss the climate change consensus in light of the post-political thesis. I conclude that the matter of the environment and climate change in particular, needs to be displaced onto the terrain of the properly political.

Do Differences in Climate Change Policy Reflect Different Cultures and Vice Versa?

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Eberhard Jochem
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Scientific Results

The Pre-Kyoto period and the outcome of the Kyoto conference demonstrated significant differences between the climate change policy in the United States and that in Western Europe. Although scientific methods and knowledge are universal and globally available, the scientific results on climate change are taken up differently by the political systems on each side of the Atlantic. Different preferences for the results of economic modelling may be due to differences in the expectations of the average American/European of the government's responsibility, different reactions in cases of uncertainty, in the political system, the openness of public controversial discussions, and in the lobbyist intensity of interest groups. Both industrialized regions, however, face the problem of the short-term orientation of market economies and of the voters of representative national democracies versus the very long-term necessities of climate change policy. The different views and traditions on each side of the Atlantic could be used for a very fruitful process of global climate change policy.

scholarly journals Climate Change Policy in Chinese Online Media Discourse: The Case of the Debate on the Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Thomas Immervoll
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Alternative Discourse ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Discourse Coalition

Abstract This paper discusses the debate in Chinese online media on both climate change policy and the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15). Based on the results of a discourse analysis of Chinese language weblogs, the paper argues that at the time of COP15 there was a dominant single discourse coalition, while also identifying alternative discourse formations. The main reasons for this discursive structure seem to be the ways in which actors are participating in the political process, the sensitivity of the topic of climate change in the Chinese discussion, and the influence of foreign debates.

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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