Beyond ‘deniers’ and ‘believers’: Towards a map of the politics of climate change

Anthropogenic climate change: how to understand the weak links between scientific evidence, public perception, and low-carbon practices

“…20 Since the early 1990s, there have been serious attempts to develop a global approach to climate mitigation polices within the UN negotiation framework. In the early years, commentators suggested that a globally binding agreement to prevent dangerous levels of climate change might be built by following the positive example of the Montreal Protocol.…”

“…Frames even define at which level of collective or individual action problem solutions can be found in the first place, with only some frames suggesting the need for global binding agreements and other frames implying a much stronger focus and reliance on individual behavioral change. 20 This leads to the next section, in which the linkage between perceptions or beliefs about climate change and individual actions are addressed in a more systematic way.…”

Leading Sustainable Global Change from Within: The Case of Environmental Employee Resource Groups

“…1 Although most businesses may agree generally on the importance of advancing sustainability efforts globally, many see such actions as critical to their continued success. In 1992, Rio de Janeiro hosted the first major conference on environmental sustainability in which thousands of governmental and nongovernmental participants crafted the Agenda 21, one of the first multicountry agreements toward focused sustainability.…”

“…2 Macy ' s, for example, presented a 5-point plan on its website that detailed the company ' s commitment to the environment: (1) seek to eradicate wasteful actions by the company, (2) engage in sustainable solutions, (3) decrease reliance on scarce resources, (4) engage in a holistic approach to sustainability, and (5) track the company ' s success at meeting quantifiable goals of sustainability. evidence of this growing corporate concern, CorporateRegister.com found that there has been an extraordinary increase in corporate responsibility reports published by organizations-from 26 published in 1992 to 5,593 reports published in 2010.…”

“…However, despite moving largely past the discussion of global warming "deniers" or "believers," there is still considerable politicization of the issue and debate about the methodology through which governmental agencies and countries can ensure and accomplish change. 1 Although most businesses may agree generally on the importance of advancing sustainability efforts globally, many see such actions as critical to their continued success. In 2011, Ernst Young, in collaboration with GreenBiz Group, published its findings from a survey of 272 executives of large organizations across 24 industries.…”