Car culture and global environmental politics

Paterson, Matthew

doi:10.1017/s0260210500002539

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“…So far this question has been explored primarily in terms of impediments to the technological development of low-emission cars and the limited consumer demand for such vehicles (e.g. Paterson 2000). This section suggests that Public Goods Theory may offer another explanation by focusing on the inherent limitations of a market for green passenger cars.…”

Section: Low-carbon Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green consumer markets in the fight against climate change

Krahmann¹

2017

Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation

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Climate change has become one of the greatest threats to environmental security, as attested by the growing frequency of severe flooding and storms, extreme temperatures and droughts. Accordingly, the European Union's (EU) 6th Environment Action Programme (2010) lists tackling climate change as its first priority. A key aim of the EU has been to cut CO 2 emissions, a major factor in climate change, by 8 per cent until 2012 and 20 per cent until 2020. The European Commission has proposed the encouragement of private consumer market for green products and services as one of several solutions to this problem. However, existing research suggests that the market share of these products has been only 3 per cent, although 30 per cent of individuals favour environmental and ethical goods. This article uses Public Goods Theory to explain why the contribution of the green consumer market to fighting climate change has been and possibly may remain limited without further public intervention.

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Section: Low-carbon Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green consumer markets in the fight against climate change

Krahmann¹

2017

Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation

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“…Motor‐vehicle emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen simultaneously are major sources of global climatic change along with adverse local health effects from ground‐level pollution (Refs 55, p. 20; 72, p. 59). China's vehicle emissions are associated with ‘brain damage, respiratory problems and infections, lung cancer, [and] emphysema’ among other leading causes of mortality (Refs 58, p. iv; 73, p. 259).…”

Section: Municipal Framings For Ghg‐emission Abatementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate policy and action ‘underneath’ Kyoto and Copenhagen: China and the United States

Koehn

2010

WIREs Climate Change

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This contribution focuses on the role and promise of municipal-government climate-stabilization policies in the world's two largest greenhouse gases (GHG)emitting nations. The article compares emission-mitigation authority, drivers, barriers, and activities at the city level in China and the United States. Recent municipal policy initiatives are analyzed within a policy context of climate-driven and climate-incidental municipal framings. For the most part, United States and Chinese cities have not yet adopted policy strategies that are intended to address GHG emissions directly and have not provided normative leadership in the interest of ecological justice. In both countries, however, increasingly independent and networked municipal governments are linking a diverse set of activities that focus on air-quality, health-promotion, and economic security to emissions reduction. These climate-incidental municipal policies establish commitments that are beginning to exert an important global environmental impact. Although noteworthy and exemplary in a political context of national resistance to emission mandates, in the absence of a coordinated and strategically framed commitment among cities across both countries and/or policies and targets agreed upon at national and international levels that generate and reinforce local government initiatives, fragmented, uneven, and incomplete municipal-government actions will continue to exert limited measurable and normative impact on global GHG emissions. 

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“…19 We still lack, therefore, a clear articulation of the contents and application of a coherent political economy approach to global environmental governance, one that has potential to provide explanations across diverse issue areas, offering a different view of 'global'(ity), what counts as 'environmental' and how we conceive of 'governance'. The approach developed here builds upon and resonates with the work of Paterson 20 and Saurin, 21 but rather than develop a theory of global environmental politics, as Paterson does, that embraces the role of capitalism, modernity and patriarchy in (re)producing environmental crises, the task here is more modest; to refine and demonstrate the utility of a political economy approach in relation to contemporary patterns of environmental governance, rather than the sum of all global environmental politics. The starting point for Saurin is to explain the apparent incongruence between a growing environmental crisis in the face of unprecedented degrees of international coordination, regulation and technical advance.…”

Section: Toward a Political Economy Approachmentioning

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The political economy of global environmental governance

Newell¹

2008

Rev. Int. Stud.

147

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This article develops a political economy account of global environmental governance to improve upon our understanding of the contemporary conduct of environmental politics and to clarify thinking about the potential for, and barriers to, effective environmental reform. By elaborating the key contours of a political economy account on the one hand and opening up to critical enquiry prevailing understandings of what is meant by ‘global’ ‘environmental’ and ‘governance’ on the other, such an approach is able to enhance our understanding of the practice of environmental governance by emphasising historical, material and political elements of its (re) constitution and evolution.

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Car culture and global environmental politics

Cited by 46 publications

References 7 publications

Green consumer markets in the fight against climate change

Green consumer markets in the fight against climate change

Climate policy and action ‘underneath’ Kyoto and Copenhagen: China and the United States

The political economy of global environmental governance

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