It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement

Pohlmann, Angela Raffin; Walz, Kerstin; Engels, Anita; Aykut, Stefan Cihan; Altstaedt, Sören; Colell, Arwen; Dietrich, Udo; Feddersen, Hauke; Friedrich, Annabarbara; Klenke, Jan; Krieger, Franziska; Schenuit, Felix; Datchoua-Tirvaudey, Alvine; Schulz, M; Zengerling, Cathrin

doi:10.14512/gaia.30.4.5

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“…According to Pohlmann et al (2021) [41], the normalisation of climate-friendly behaviours in a given social group will not occur through the sum of individuals. Gamification thus often provides interactive spaces where reality can be experienced and transformed, which is a rich basis for knowledge creation (Kolb, 2014[42]).…”

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A transition support system to build decarbonization scenarios in the academic community

Gratiot

Klein

Challet

et al. 2023

PLOS Sustain Transform

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A growing portion of scientists realises the need to not only alert about climate change, but also change their professional practices. A range of tools have emerged to promote more sustainable activities, yet many scientists struggle to go beyond simple awareness-raising to create concrete transition actions. Here we propose a game-based transition support system MaTerre180’, which has been designed to build scenarios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in the academic community. After providing a common scientific background about the context (global warming issue, its causes and consequences) and setting up a challenge (50% reduction of carbon budget by 2030), the participants belonging to the academic community and its governance bodies immerse themselves into fictional characters, to simulate the behaviour of real research groups. The game has been deployed during the year 2021, with six hundred participants from nine countries and 50 cities. Results explore clear pathways for GHG reductions between 25 and 60%, and a median reduction of 46%. The alternatives allowing the greatest reduction are video communication tools (36%), followed by mutualization of professional activities and voluntary cancellation or reduction, that represent 22 and 14% of reduction, respectively. The remaining 28% of reduction consists of transport alternative, relocation of professional activities, extended duration of some travels, etc. In addition, the analyses pointed out the importance of the guided negotiation phase to bring out some alternatives such as relocation, local partners and computing optimization. An added value of this transition support system is that the information it collects (anonymously) will be used to answer pressing research questions in climate change science and environmental psychology regarding the use of serious games for promoting changes in attitudes and behaviours towards sustainability, and including broader questions on how network structures influence “climate behaviour”, knowledge and the governance of the commons. Modestly, MaTerre180’ offers an innovative game-based transition support system to build scenarios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in the academic community. It is not simply a question of moving tokens on a virtual gameboard and a playful adjustment of practices, but rather a question of brainstorming about possible and desirable ways of remodelling research and teaching communities and embracing a new paradigm. After tens of workshops, our results show clear pathways for reaching up to 50% GHG reductions and stress the importance of guided negotiations to bring out alternatives to carbonized activities. This first attempt reinforces our belief that scientific engagement is at the heart of the international development agenda and a key approach to tear down the institutional barriers that inhibit the transformation needed to achieve a more sustainable society.

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confidence: 99%

A transition support system to build decarbonization scenarios in the academic community

Gratiot

Klein

Challet

et al. 2023

PLOS Sustain Transform

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“…This political demand for structural action to address climate change is also increasingly expressed by members of the scientific community, for example, Pohlmann et al (2021) argue that the climate crisis is not simply one crisis among others and that it interconnects with a wide range of other political-economic challenges. Indeed, they stress that the difficulty of making the necessary social changes to address the climate crisis stems from ‘the centrality of fossil fuels and the material wealth derived from them’ in ‘prevailing structures of domination’ (Pohlmann et al, 2021: 232).…”

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“…Thus, there are a series of broader political faultlines around inequality in this wicked universality, exacerbated by the fact that those living in low-income countries are overwhelmingly least responsible for climate change and are under most immediate threat from it (Miller, 2017: 17). Given the importance of the sustainability paradox, we first explore different ways of engaging with, or sidestepping it, beginning with the influential SDGs and PRME framework, and then draw on the political economy intervention to highlight the need for a more politicised approach (Pohlmann et al, 2021). Following this, we argue that it is best to combine political economy perspectives with ecological and ecocentric approaches in management pedagogy, for which Haraway (2016) gives us some important conceptual resources to further develop.…”

Section: Teaching Sustainability Criticallymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises

Dallyn,

Checchi,

Prado

et al. 2023

Management Learning

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The unprecedented scale of the climate crisis has led to a questioning of conventional approaches to sustainability in management education, centred around business case for sustainability narratives. Such critique gives rise to serious questions around how we approach teaching the universality of the climate crisis, species extinction and biodiversity loss differently. Working with Freire’s stress on the political role of the educator, action rooted in the concrete and the interconnections he establishes between pedagogy and political organisation, our contribution is to connect these interventions with Haraway’s call to stay ‘with the trouble’ and generate Communities of Compost – that is, collective more than human communities of multi-species flourishing. In doing so, we propose threading together ecocentric and political economy approaches in management education, to present an alternative to corporate sustainability solutionism and to politically rethink scalar mismatches – that is when problems and proposed ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis apply to different sets of relations. As a way of addressing this, we develop pedagogical practices around Haraway’s multi-species Communities of Compost and combine this with the political movement of La Via Campesina – focusing on its campaigns for agroecology and food sovereignty.

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“…In sum, it seems that the climate protest movement as it stands is not a major force in closing the implementation gap. However, new strategies could be taken up to more effectively exert pressure to overcome the salience of the burdens (Section 3.1.2) associated with implementation and to hold all levels of government accountable (Section 3.1.3;Pohlmann et al, 2021). Empirical evidence on the movement's impact on specific instruments is still missing.…”

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Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany

Perino¹,

Jarke-Neuert

Schenuit

et al. 2022

PaG

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The European Union and Germany have recently committed themselves to greenhouse-gas neutrality by 2050 and 2045, respectively. This substantially reduces their gaps in ambition to the Paris climate goals. However, the current climate policy mix is not sufficient to reach these targets: There is a major implementation gap. Based on economic, legal, and political science perspectives, this article identifies key obstacles in legislating stringent climate policy instruments and making them effective. Using a simple framework, we map the stage of the process in which the obstacles are at work. Moreover, we discuss the potential effectiveness of a select list of prominent drivers of climate-related regulation in overcoming said obstacles and conclude by pointing towards conditions for closing the implementation gap. In doing so, we focus on the current legislative processes of the “Fit-for-55” package by the European Commission and the 2021 Federal Climate Change Act in Germany. Our analysis builds on the extant literature, and we suggest avenues for further research.

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It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

A transition support system to build decarbonization scenarios in the academic community

A transition support system to build decarbonization scenarios in the academic community

Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises

Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany

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