scholarly journals The Value of a Valuation Perspective for Theorizing about Social Change and Climate Change: A Study on Carbon Pricing in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-130
Author(s):  
Anita Engels ◽  
Chen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Carbon Market ◽  
Central China ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Recent Developments

This study combines three purposes: to advance a valuation perspective for theorizing about social change and climate change; to contribute to the general debate on pricing as the dominant policy to meet climate mitigation goals; to improve our understanding of potential decarbonization processes in China. We apply a valuation perspective to an in-depth case study of an emerging carbon market in Hubei Province in Central China. The study builds on original data collected during field trips to Hubei (2014, 2015) and additional documents covering recent developments in the Chinese carbon market. It shows how putting a price on carbon in China emerges as the outcome of a long-term cultural and institutional process in which China’s high-carbon growth model is increasingly contested. We emphasize the work that was required before a carbon price could emerge as a market price, and focus on the uncertainty that needed to be overcome in the complex multilevel Chinese system. We suggest that China’s introduction of low-carbon policies are a side effect of other political, economic and social pressures, and that it is largely facilitated because such policies are consistent with many other changes that are occurring simultaneously both in the Chinese context and globally.

scholarly journals Energy-Related Carbon Emissions of China’s Model Environmental Cities

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kevin Lo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Annual Carbon ◽  
Per Capita

This paper identifies three types of model environmental cities in China and examines their levels of energy-related carbon emissions using a bottom-up accounting system. Model environmental cities are identified as those that have been recently awarded official recognition from the central government for their efforts in environmental protection. The findings show that, on average, the Low-Carbon Cities have lower annual carbon emissions, carbon intensities, and per capita emissions than the Eco-Garden Cities and the Environmental Protection Cities. Compared internationally, the Eco-Garden Cities and the Environmental Protection Cities have per capita emissions that are similar to those of American cities whereas per capita emissions from the Low-Carbon Cities are similar to those of European cities. The result indicates that addressing climate change is not a priority for some model environmental cities. Policy changes are needed to prioritize climate mitigation in these cities, considering that climate change is a cross-cutting environmental issue with wide-ranging impact.

IMPACTS OF MECHANISMS TO PROMOTE PARTICIPATION IN CLIMATE MITIGATION: BORDER CARBON ADJUSTMENTS VERSUS UNIFORM TARIFF MEASURES

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 2041007
Author(s):  
KUN ZHANG ◽  
QIAO-MEI LIANG ◽  
LI-JING LIU ◽  
MEI-MEI XUE ◽  
BI-YING YU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Cge Model ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Welfare Losses

Because free-riding behavior is an inherent characteristic of climate change, how to protect the economic benefits of the emission reduction regions and prompt the noncooperative region to join the emission reduction coalition is particularly important. In this study, we use a global multi-region multi-sector CGE model to compare the impacts of border carbon adjustment (BCA) and two unified tariff mechanisms based on different implementation principles on USA. The results show that the BCA is more effective in reducing carbon leakage in USA than the uniform tariff mechanisms. However, for GDP and welfare losses, the scenario Tariff-carbon-reduction results in greater GDP and welfare losses in USA, which is more conducive to prompting USA to implement carbon reduction policies than the BCA measures. Finally, the sensitivity analysis of carbon price levels and key substitution elasticity further confirmed the results.

New Actors in the Old Hierarchies: Alliances for Low-Carbon Urban Development in Shenzhen, China

2021 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2110028
Author(s):  
Yunjing Li
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
State System ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon City

The integration of climate mitigation into urbanization has brought new actors to city planning and building. This study examines the driving actors of decarbonization-focused urban development in a Global South context through the case of Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City (SILCC), China. It outlines a complex governing landscape that combines new genres of actors and traditional hierarchical relationships within the state system. The paper further elaborates on how this ostensible multilevel governance is used strategically as a new source of legitimation for mega development projects, indicating the shifting legitimacy foundation for urban development to new levels of governance and onto different actors in the era of climate change.

scholarly journals Urban India and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 459-476
Author(s):  
Radhika Khosla ◽  
Ankit Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Lock In

India will undergo immense urbanization in the coming decades, doubling its urban population by 2050. This transformation is unique as it will come at the time when the impacts of, as well as the global momentum to respond to, climate change heighten. India’s urban transformation will, therefore, have deep implications for not only local welfare and environmental conditions but also for climate mitigation and climate adaptation. As most of urban India is yet to be built, India has a unique opportunity to lock-in low-carbon, resilient, and equitable urban forms for the long term. This chapter discusses the evolution of India’s urban climate actions, from addressing climate risks to, more recently, mitigation, while also exploring the governance characteristics of these actions. These actions, while nascent, provide an indication that the future trajectory of urban responses to climate change will be shaped by how local development and climate goals will be linked and prioritized.

Anglo Fears

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Warming World

The rejection of climate change science is organized by a countermovement, a collective effort to oppose a threatening social movement, in this case global environmentalism along with climate mitigation efforts. This chapter shows that, from a comparative perspective, the Anglo group of countries are quite alone in organizing the Climate Change Countermovement (CCCM), even though climate denial manifests in an unorganized way more broadly. This chapter offers the theoretical possibility that this Anglo climate denial emerges as a defense of imperial privilege threatened by the social change required to address a warming world. The theory is then supported by selections from authors of books who reject climate change and that evidence a fear of loss—of US power, of possessive individualism, and of Western progress.

scholarly journals Mission-Oriented Policies and Technological Sovereignty: The Case of Climate Mitigation Technologies

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6854
Author(s):  
Serenella Caravella ◽  
Valeria Costantini ◽  
Francesco Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Patent Data ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
The Eu

The rapid decarbonization of the global economy represents the main challenge for the next decades to combat climate change. The European Union (EU) is leading the negotiation process under the Paris Agreement and recently approved an ambitious unilateral mitigation strategy known as the European Green Deal (EGD). In this paper, we present a novel approach based on the analysis of patent data related to climate change and mitigation technologies (CCMTs) with the aim of describing the evolutionary pattern of the EU in green technology. Based on our analysis, two of our main results deserve attention. First, at the global level, the pace of generation of new green technologies as measured by patent data is slowing down in recent years. This trend, if not inverted, casts some doubts on the economic sustainability of the ambitious environmental targets set by the EC. Second, the current EU technological positioning with respect to green areas appears to be problematic in terms of technological sovereignty, with serious risks of potential technological dependences from other countries. Given the radical technological shift required for the implementation of a full decarbonization pattern, the EU must realize a mission-oriented technology policy with additional and directed investments to ensure technological independence, together with a low-carbon and energy secure economy.

scholarly journals La educación en tiempos de cambio climático: Facilitar el aprendizaje para construir una cultura de cuidado del clima

2016 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Francisco Heras Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Realistic Perception

Climate change presents significant educational challenges: it is necessary to know about its causes, to recognise the roots of the problem and to be aware of its consequences. This is necessary to build a more realistic perception of climate risks and better understand our vulnerabilities. But it is especially important to know about the solutions; urgent training is needed to build a «low-carbon» culture to prevent dangerous interference with the global climate. Educational institutions – both formal and informal – must consider their contribution to these needs for knowledge and social change, because climate change will impact our future heavily and because everyone plays a role in the complex network of responsibilities that fuel it.  

scholarly journals Empirical Research on the effectiveness of national pilot carbon trading market based on carbon price time series

2021 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 01096
Author(s):  
Ning Ruoyu ◽  
Liu Yisheng
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Carbon Market ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Trading Market ◽  
Fractal Market Hypothesis

We will promote the establishment of a unified national carbon market, effectively control and gradually reduce carbon emissions, and contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions, it is of great significance to promote the economic transformation to green and low-carbon. Based on the time series of carbon price, this paper conducts exploratory research on the effectiveness of the carbon trading market in eight pilot regions, uses the fractal market hypothesis, adopts the re-rating difference analysis method, takes the effective carbon price of each pilot every day as the research variable, and empirically analyzes the effectiveness of the pilot carbon market.

scholarly journals Global Trends in the Innovation and Diffusion of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Probst ◽  
Simon Touboul ◽  
Matthieu Glachant ◽  
Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Innovation And Diffusion ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
And Diffusion

Abstract Increasing the development and diffusion of low-carbon technologies on a global scale is critical to mitigating climate change. Based on over two million patents from 1995 to 2017 from 106 countries in all major climate mitigation technologies, our analysis shows an annual average low-carbon patenting growth rate of 10 percent from 1995 to 2013. Yet, from 2013 to 2017 low-carbon patenting rates have fallen by around 6 percent annually, likely driven by declining fossil fuel prices and, possibly, a readjustment of investors’ expectations and a stagnation of public funding for green R&D after the financial crisis. The Paris Agreement does not appear to have reversed the negative trend in low-carbon patenting observed since 2013. Innovation is still highly concentrated, with Germany, Japan, and the US accounting for more than half of global inventions, and the top 10 countries for around 90%. This concentration has further intensified over the last decade. Except for China, emerging economies have not caught up and remain less specialised in low-carbon technologies than the world average. This underscores the need for more technology transfers to developing and emerging economies, where most of the future CO2-emissions increases are set to occur. Existing transfer mechanisms, such as the UN Technology Transfer Mechanism and the Clean Development Mechanism, appear insufficient given the slow progress of technology transfer.

The Implementation Approach of LCCF Checklist in Development Control: Challenges for policymakers

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
T B A
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Development Control

Global warming, climate change is now affecting the world. The effort of the leaders to achieving the sustainable development is from New Urban Agenda (NUA), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and local level is local authorities.  SDG’s goal number 13 takes urgent action to combat climate change and its impact also SDG’s number 11 to sustainable cities and communities. The gap of this paper  Different cities face different challenges and issues. Local authorities will play a significant role in undertaking policy initiatives to combat carbon emissions of the city. Low Carbon Cities (LCC) is to reduce carbon emissions in all human activities in cities.  The objective of this paper is by applying the LCCF Checklist in planning permission for sustainable development. The methodology of this research is a mixed-method, namely quantitative and qualitative approach. The survey methods are by interview, questionnaire, and observation. Town planners are the subject matter expert in managing the planning permission submission for the development control of their areas. Descriptive statistical analysis will be used to show the willingness of the stakeholders, namely the developers and planning consultants in implementing of the LCCF. The contribution of this research will gauge readiness at the local authorities level. The findings of the LCCF checklist are identified as important in planning permission into the development control process. Surprisingly, that challenges and issues exist in multifaceted policy implementation the LCCF Checklist in a local authority. Finally based on Subang Jaya Municipal Councils, the existing approach in the application of the LCCF Checklist in the development control process will be useful for development control in a local authority towards sustainable development.  

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