Carbon leakage: pollution, trade or politics?

Michalek, Gabriela; Schwarze, Reimund

doi:10.1007/s10668-014-9616-8

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“…The policy discourse has been dominated by questions of impacts on GDP growth (Anderson & M'Gonigle, 2012;Stern, 2009;Stern & Treasury, 2007). Corporations have been able to use their mobility to threaten to relocate if states introduce climate policy unilaterally, creating the discourse of "carbon leakage" (where if one state regulates carbon, industry may simply migrate to other countries with no regulations, meaning that there is no effect on overall carbon emissions) (Juergens, Barreiro-Hurlé, & Vasa, 2013;Kama, 2014;Michalek & Schwarze, 2015;Zhou & Sheng, 2015), reinforcing the reluctance of states to regulate corporations.…”

Section: Carbon Markets: Bargaining Rent-seeking and Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political economies of climate change

Paterson

P-Laberge

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Political economy approaches across the social sciences provide powerful explanations for important dynamics within the global response to climate change. This article discusses in particular how they provide explanations of the social origins of greenhouse gas emissions, the dominant policy and governance responses to climate change, recurrent political conflicts over these responses, and the patterns of bargaining between states, businesses, and other actors. Underlying these dynamics are a set of contradictions or tensions between the character of capitalism as a social system and the demands of decarbonizing the global economy, specifically: between the imperative for growth that constrains and shapes responses; concerning the power of large transnational businesses and other incumbent interests to block responses; and over the embeddedness of carbon emissions in daily life. The article explores the implications of these contradictions as well as some of the important theoretical debates about the limits of political economy approaches. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance Climate Economics > Economics and Climate Change

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Section: Carbon Markets: Bargaining Rent-seeking and Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%