Smokescreen Politics? Ratcheting Up EU Emissions Trading in 2017

Wettestad, Jørgen; Jevnaker, Torbjørg

doi:10.1111/ropr.12345

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“…Additionally, the ETS has not reduced competitiveness of impacted companies (Joltreau and Sommerfeld 2019). The EU ETS, which was reformed in 2018 to avoid a growing surplus of emission rights (Wettestad and Jevnaker 2019;EU 2018), will also lead to further reductions. Its phase four, beginning in 2021, includes a yearly reduction of the cap of 2.2 percent (Oberthür 2019, 19).…”

Section: Describing the Status Quo: Emission Profiles And Policies In The European Unionmentioning

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Climate Change Politics in Canada and the EU—from Carbon Democracy to a Green Deal?

Lederer

2021

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The idea of a green deal transforming industrialized societies’ climate policies in a sustainable manner has become highly popular in various countries. The study takes up this notion focusing on climate policy initiatives in Canada and the EU, raising three interrelated issues: (i) on a descriptive level, the study asks where we stand and what has so far been achieved regarding climate policy; (ii) analytically, the study provides a theoretical explanation of why progress has been slow in the EU and hardly visible in Canada, making use of the concept of carbon democracy; (iii) on a prescriptive level, the study explores what will be needed to make a green deal successful, arguing that one has to accept that a green deal is a deeply political project that will create winners and losers and that not all losers can be compensated under the label of a “just transition”. The argument advanced is that the EU and Canada represent a form of carbon democracy in which the extensive use of carbon laid the foundation for establishing democratic institutions and strongly shaped them. The paper shows that the extensive influence of carbon-related activities not only empowers specific non-state agents but is rather deeply enmeshed in the societal and political genome of both regions’ polities. The claim that follows is that climate politics in Canada and the EU will have to be deeply transformative and therefore disruptive in order to be successful.

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Section: Describing the Status Quo: Emission Profiles And Policies In The European Unionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Politics in Canada and the EU—from Carbon Democracy to a Green Deal?

Lederer

2021

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“…Such hedging strategies resemble the attitudes of businesses that do not directly oppose environmental regulations but attempt to shape regulations to minimize their cost exposure (Meckling, 2015). An example of hedging is the position of the steelworkers’ unions affiliated to the European trade union federation IndustriAll Europe over the latest reform of the EU ETS, adopted in February 2018 (Wettestad and Jevnaker, 2019). The EU ETS is a carbon cap-and-trade scheme that sets binding emission reduction targets for industrial facilities and power plants.…”

Section: A Typology Of Trade Union Strategies Towards Climate Changementioning

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Trade union strategies on climate change mitigation: Betweenopposition, hedgingandsupport

Thomas

Doerflinger

2020

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article aims to provide a better understanding of trade unions’ climate change strategies. Using a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of interviews and documents, the article sets out the three ideal-typical strategies of unions towards climate change mitigation policies: opposition, hedging and support. Our analysis finds that current trade union strategies on climate change are primarily rooted in sectoral interests mediated by union identities and conceptions of union democracy. At a theoretical level, the article contributes to broader debates on interest representation and collective bargaining behaviour by trade unions, in particular to the much-discussed tendency of organized groups to pursue private gains at the expense of common goods.

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“…Crucially, these withdrawn allowances would be taken from the auction share, in part to avoid the politically fraught process of removing them from the free allocation to individual companies. 9 These debates on volume management and allocation continued during the preparation of the 2018 Directive, the legislation that set the parameters for the ETS's fourth trading period between 2021 and 2030 (see Wettestad and Jevnaker 2019). In 2014, the European Council had decided to set a 40% reduction target for 2030 (European Council 2014), and the 2018 Directive was meant to implement that new target for the ETS.…”

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Disaggregating the dependent variable in policy feedback research: an analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System

Moore

Jordan

2020

Policy Sci

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The literature on policy dynamics has long argued for a better conceptualization and measurement of the dependent variable ("policy"), but this fundamental point has often been neglected in the policy feedback literature. In this paper, we explore how far disaggregating policy into different elements (policy instruments, objectives, and settings) addresses this gap. We do so by examining the world's largest market-based climate policy instrumentemissions trading in the European Union-and reveal a number of valuable new insights. First, even if positive policy feedback locks in a policy instrument, actor contestation does not disappear, but narrows down to the more detailed level of policy settings. Second, feedback may operate differently at each policy level: the policy instrument and its settings may strengthen at the same time as support for broader objectives weakens. Finally, positive feedback may simultaneously strengthen opposing actors' support for multiple policy elements, leading to a form of "policy stability by stalemate." These findings highlight the need for a new, interdisciplinary phase of policy feedback research that more fully disaggregates the dependent variable across a wider range of policy areas and policy instrument types. Policy scientists are well equipped to contribute to and benefit from such a debate.

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Smokescreen Politics? Ratcheting Up EU Emissions Trading in 2017

Cited by 44 publications

References 33 publications

Climate Change Politics in Canada and the EU—from Carbon Democracy to a Green Deal?

Climate Change Politics in Canada and the EU—from Carbon Democracy to a Green Deal?

Trade union strategies on climate change mitigation: Betweenopposition, hedgingandsupport

Disaggregating the dependent variable in policy feedback research: an analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System

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