Creating the UK emission trading scheme: motives and symbolic politics

Nye, Michael; Owens, Susan

doi:10.1002/eet.468

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“…Dominant amongst these are studies of the EU ETS (Cass 2005, Pinkse and Kolk 2007, Voß 2007, Skjaerseth and Wettestad 2008, and many other articles; Baldwin 2008, Braun 2009, van Asselt 2010, and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (Green 2008, Boyd 2009, Pulver et al 2010, Shin 2010). There are, however, also some studies of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) (Rabe 2004, Selin and VanDeveer 2011, New Zealand (Hood 2010, see also Bullock 2012, the UK pilot emissions trading scheme (Nye and Owens 2008) and the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM, see Bumpus and Liverman 2008). Furthermore, some broad comparative articles explore the patterns of policy development across different markets (see in particular Betsill andHoffmann 2011 andPaterson 2012), while others explore the CDM in the context of a 'varieties of capitalism' argument 4 about how this shapes national CDM governance systems (Friberg 2009, Fuhr and Lederer 2009, Schroeder 2009).…”

Section: Situating the Special Issuementioning

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The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Stephan

Paterson

2012

Environmental Politics

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This overview of the existing political analysis of carbon markets identifies three broad strands in the literature. The first is concerned with the processes by which particular carbon market schemes are established. The second focuses on the role of particular actors in the creation of carbon markets. The third strand assesses carbon markets on efficiency, legitimacy or justice grounds. This existing literature is contrasted with the framework developed by the contributions to this volume. Broadly drawing on constructivist and poststructuralist approaches, the carbon economy is deconstructed, its history scrutinised and the practices and technologies that have been used to bring these markets into being are highlighted. Thus it is demonstrated that politics is not limited to the policy process leading up to the decision to implement an emissions trading scheme or offset mechanism, but is also present in the forms of knowledge claims that underpin these markets, as well as the various daily practices that constitute them.

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Section: Situating the Special Issuementioning

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The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Stephan

Paterson

2012

Environmental Politics

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“…Second, it analyses if membership of the UK ETS is associated with differences in the disclosure of organisations that participate in it. As such, this analysis contributes not only to the literature on corporate disclosure but it also helps to understand how disclosures may change over time under the influence of the UK ETS (see also Nye & Owens, 2008;Roeser & Jackson, 2005;Von Malmborg & Strachan, 2005). The findings of this research report on a very specific policy instrument in the UK context so generalisations are difficult to infer.…”

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“…Indeed, von Malmborg and Strachan (2005) note that the main reason given by direct participants to engage in the UK ETS was to receive incentive payments. In the same vein, Nye and Owens (2008) suggested that organisations' primarily motivation in supporting economic instruments, such as emissions trading, is to achieve economic efficiency. However, the economic rationale for doing so is diminished or constrained by existing policy frameworks or wider socio-economic contexts.…”

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Disclosure on climate change: Analysing the UK ETS effects

Aguiar

Bebbington

2014

Accounting Forum

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HIGHLIGHTS• Study organisations that took part in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).• Compare disclosure produced on climate change in annual and standalone reports.• Suggest a coding instrument based on a synthesis of disclosure recommendations.• UK ETS did influence corporate environmental disclosure on climate change.• Disclosures in annual and standalone reports are different and may be complementary.

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“…From 2013, the ETS cap is to be determined centrally, while procedures have been put in place to harmonise rules for the allocation of allowances. At the same time, greater use is being made of auctioning, leading to the abolition of NAPs (Nye and Owens, 2008;Van Asselt, 2010;Moore and Newey, 2013).…”

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State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence: The linkage governance approach

Buller

2015

Comp Eur Polit

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Since the 1990s, political science has been criticised for its inability to adequately theorise the role and nature of the state in an era of global interdependence. In particular, the discipline is said to have fallen into a 'territorial trap'. It is founded on a territorial conception of space that both reifies and limits debate about the state to whether it is 'obsolete' or 'obstinate' in a world where power is increasingly located in transnational functional space between countries. This article responds to this argument, providing a conception of state spatiality that stresses its contingent and variable nature. It claims that state actors can author functional transnational space by fusing together domestic and international objects into distinct 'linkage governance' (LG) strategies, although such behaviour will have unintended consequences and not always be successful. It is hoped this LG perspective will open up a more fruitful set of research questions concerning the role of the state in the fluid and dynamic world of the twenty-first century.

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Creating the UK emission trading scheme: motives and symbolic politics

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Disclosure on climate change: Analysing the UK ETS effects

State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence: The linkage governance approach

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