A globally just and inclusive transition? Questioning policy representations of the European Green Deal

IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102946
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Climate change mitigation policies around the world are increasingly formulated as ‘green deals’ characterized by comprehensive packages of (‘green’) economic and societal reforms intended to bring about a just and inclusive transition to a low-carbon economy. This paper takes as its starting point what we see as a fundamental tension underlying the logic of these policies: despite making ambitious claims about the ethical merits of the transition they aim to bring about, their implementation depends on the extraction of massive amounts of raw materials. Most of these materials will be sourced from the Global South, where the negative ecological and social impacts will be felt. Empirically we explore how this tension is reflected in the European Green Deal, the most comprehensive of the green deal initiatives to date. Analyzing 195 policy documents from the European Union, we find that the role played by the European Green Deal in driving negative impacts beyond its borders is effectively silenced in official discourse. This enables the propagation of a narrative that justifies the dominant paradigm of green growth by portraying the European Green Deal as undertaking a globally ‘just transition’ that ‘do no harm’ and ‘leaves no one behind’. However, it also results in discursive contradictions and inconsistencies that undermine the logic and legitimacy of the European Green Deal. These contradictions and inconsistencies, we argue, provide a possible entry point for efforts to improve the just and inclusive outcomes from the European Green Deal.
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全球公正和包容的过渡?质疑欧洲绿色交易的政策表述
世界各地的气候变化减缓政策越来越多地被制定为 "绿色交易",其特点是全面的一揽子("绿色")经济和社会改革,旨在实现向低碳经济的公正、包容的过渡。本文的出发点是我们认为这些政策的逻辑背后存在的根本矛盾:尽管这些政策雄心勃勃地宣称其旨在实现的转型具有道德价值,但其实施却依赖于大量原材料的开采。这些材料大多来自全球南部地区,对那里的生态和社会都会产生负面影响。欧洲绿色交易是迄今为止最全面的绿色交易倡议,我们通过实证研究探讨了这一矛盾在欧洲绿色交易中的体现。通过分析欧盟的 195 份政策文件,我们发现欧洲绿色协议在推动负面影响超越其边界方面所扮演的角色在官方话语中被有效压制。这使得欧洲绿色交易被描述为在全球范围内进行 "公正过渡","不造成伤害 "且 "不遗漏任何人",从而为绿色增长的主流范式提供了依据。然而,这也造成了话语上的矛盾和不一致,破坏了欧洲绿色交易的逻辑和合法性。我们认为,这些矛盾和不一致为努力改善欧洲绿色交易的公正性和包容性成果提供了一个可能的切入点。
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Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Change 环境科学-环境科学
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18.20
自引率
2.20%
发文量
146
审稿时长
12 months
期刊介绍: Global Environmental Change is a prestigious international journal that publishes articles of high quality, both theoretically and empirically rigorous. The journal aims to contribute to the understanding of global environmental change from the perspectives of human and policy dimensions. Specifically, it considers global environmental change as the result of processes occurring at the local level, but with wide-ranging impacts on various spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales. In terms of content, the journal seeks articles with a strong social science component. This includes research that examines the societal drivers and consequences of environmental change, as well as social and policy processes that aim to address these challenges. While the journal covers a broad range of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources, it also welcomes contributions that investigate the drivers, consequences, and management of other areas affected by environmental change. Overall, Global Environmental Change encourages research that deepens our understanding of the complex interactions between human activities and the environment, with the goal of informing policy and decision-making.
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