How the global and national levels interrelate in climate policymaking: Foreign Policy Analysis and the case of Carbon Capture Storage in Norway's foreign policy

Roettereng, Jo-Kristian S.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.08.003

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“…Norway is also traditionally an international leader on climate change mitigation and, in many cases, an early adopter of environmental policies. However, the country's increasing economic dependence on the petroleum sector put pressure on the previous political consensus, resulting in an increasing degree of polarization among the political parties (Hovden & Lindseth, 2004; Roettereng, 2016).…”

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The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

Linde

2020

Risk Analysis

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Previous research shows that public perceptions of climate change risk are strongly related to the individual willingness to support climate mitigation and adaptation policy. In this article, I investigate how public perceptions of climate change risk are affected by communications from political parties and the degree of polarization among them. Specifically, using survey data from Sweden, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, I study the relationship between party source cues, perceived polarization, and public perceptions of climate change risk. The results reveal a positive relationship between party cues and perceptions of climate change risk, indicating that individuals adjust their risk perceptions to align with their party preference. Furthermore, a negative relationship between perceived polarization and individual risk perceptions is also discovered, showing that individuals tend to be less concerned with climate change the more polarization they perceive. However, the effect of perceived polarization is found to be limited to more abstract perceptions of risk, while being unrelated to perceptions of concrete risks. Even with some contextual variance, the results generally hold up well across the four countries.

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The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

Linde

2020

Risk Analysis

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“…In both countries, carbon taxes on private consumption have also been in place since the early 1990s (Jagers & Hammar, 2009;Steentjes et al, 2017). However, Norway's growing economic dependence on the fossil-fuel sector has, in recent years, challenged the political consensus and increased polarization among political parties on the issue of climate change (Hovden & Lindseth, 2004;Roettereng, 2016).…”

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The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study

2018

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While many countries have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the choice of national climate policy measures demonstrates widespread variation. Although system of government, path-dependency and economic entanglements can explain a certain amount of variation in policy choice, research also points specifically towards the highly politicized nature of climate policy instruments and their sensitivity to public support as explanatory factors for cross-national differences. Previous studies hypothesize that various country-specific contextual factors determine both general preferences for environmental protection and the public's preferences for different types of policy instruments. One suggestion is that countries' prevailing political cultures have significant consequences for such public support. Another supposition is that, since countries differ in their economic dependency on climate detrimental industry such as fossil fuel production, this should be a significant factor determining both public attitudes and subsequent political decisions. This paper applies unique, original data from four countries with significant variation in (i) political-cultural contexts (Sweden and Norway vs New Zealand and Australia and (ii) economic dependency (Norway and Australia vs Sweden and New Zealand) to analyze how, and to what extent, these two contextual variables interact with, and moderate, the effect of individual-level factors on support for climate policy measures in the four countries. Furthermore, the paper explores variations in support for different types of CO 2 taxes (directed towards individual consumers, industry, and fossil-fuel producers) in the four countries. Key policy insights. Across contexts, public policy support is lower for taxes directed towards private consumption than for taxes directed towards industry, and the strongest for CO 2 taxes on fossil fuel producing industry.. Political culture and economic context influence the effect of individual-level factors on policy support.. In a context of high economic dependency on the fossil-fuel industry, people are less likely to support the introduction of CO 2 taxes.. The effect of left-right ideology on policy support is sensitive to political-cultural context.

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“…Being a small, open, petroleum-based economy, Norway has advocated flexible, marketbased climate policy solutions together with technologies that enable further use of fossil-fuels. An example of the latter is Norway's support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) (Roettereng 2016).…”

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Creative and disruptive elements in Norway´s climate policy mix: the small-state perspective

Ćetković

Skjærseth

2019

Environmental Politics

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Recent scholarship has argued that effective and credible national climate policy mixes should encompass measures that promote new low-carbon technologies alongside those instruments aimed at constraining and phasing out support for existing polluting industries. The creative and disruptive policy measures in Norway´s climate policy mix are analysed by focusing on both national and international climate mitigation efforts. Norway´s climate policy mix at home has been more ambitious in the transport sector with a growing electric vehicle market than in the energy sector where niche support and disruptive policies have remained weak. Abroad, Norway has been increasingly active in supporting new low-carbon technologies and disrupting the fossilfuel industry, especially coal. This is explained by the consensus-seeking and oil and gas dominated small-state social-investment political economy in Norway, combined with a forward-looking foreign policy based on normsetting and multilateralism.

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How the global and national levels interrelate in climate policymaking: Foreign Policy Analysis and the case of Carbon Capture Storage in Norway's foreign policy

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study

Creative and disruptive elements in Norway´s climate policy mix: the small-state perspective

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