Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2234794
J. Gupta, K. Prodani, Xuemi Bai, L. Gifford, T. Lenton, I. Otto, L. Pereira, C. Rammelt, J. Scholtens, J. Tàbara
The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises questions of justice. Global environmental assessments and scholarship are increasingly paying attention to justice issues, yet inadequately define how to share the limited ecospace. Against this background we ask: how can global environmental assessments’ concerns for justice be enhanced through an Earth system justice framework that guides how the global community could share limited ecospace? Based on an analysis of how justice concerns are addressed in the Assessment of Assessments and global environmental change projects, we build an Earth system justice framework that discusses how ecospace can be shared fairly through the setting of Earth system boundaries and the provision of minimum resource needs for all, and how this can be achieved through an equitable redistribution of resources, rights, and responsibilities focused on addressing inequality, overconsumption, and harmful accumulation.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2220640
C. Winter, D. Schlosberg
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2226023
A. Scerri
{"title":"Green republicanism and the ‘Crises of Democracy’","authors":"A. Scerri","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2226023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2226023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46969631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2223074
Weila Gong, Joanna I. Lewis
ABSTRACT As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has emerged as the largest public financier for energy infrastructure projects worldwide, concerns about the environmental and climate impacts of such projects have led to mounting international pressure on the Chinese government to ‘green’ its investment practices. This paper examines the understudied role of international engagement, and of specific international actors, in greening China’s BRI. We propose two discrete models of engagement which serve as a means of understanding the role that international actors have played in greening China’s BRI: (1) through direct engagement that influences individual project outcomes; and (2) through indirect engagement that shapes China’s broader policies and investment practices. We also identify factors that have constrained the role of international influence, including the absence of an influential Chinese international development agency. Finally, we propose opportunities for international engagement with China regarding its overseas investment practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2226022
C. Cassegård
{"title":"Activism without hope? Four varieties of postapocalyptic environmentalism","authors":"C. Cassegård","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2226022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2226022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45805629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983
Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, Maria Gustafsson
{"title":"Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws","authors":"Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, Maria Gustafsson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44899755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133
Micah Farver
{"title":"Citizens United and State environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes","authors":"Micah Farver","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43147923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488
M. Davidson, Xue Gao, Joshua W. Busby, C. Shearer, Joshua Eisenman
ABSTRACT The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for their decision to cease financing overseas coal projects despite prominent differences in political systems, degree of internationalization of their financial systems, and economic size? Drawing on datasets of coal projects and financing supplemented by case material and interviews, this paper explores the dynamics of coal export finance and how the combination of international reputational pressures and declining demand for coal finance diminished the domestic support for incumbent coal exporters in all three countries.
{"title":"Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal","authors":"M. Davidson, Xue Gao, Joshua W. Busby, C. Shearer, Joshua Eisenman","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for their decision to cease financing overseas coal projects despite prominent differences in political systems, degree of internationalization of their financial systems, and economic size? Drawing on datasets of coal projects and financing supplemented by case material and interviews, this paper explores the dynamics of coal export finance and how the combination of international reputational pressures and declining demand for coal finance diminished the domestic support for incumbent coal exporters in all three countries.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42402723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659
Hauke Dannemann
Facing the increasingly brutal consequences of failed climate politics and swelling polarization, one of the most pressing questions of our time is why humanity seems to be unable to act adequately on climate change. Grappling with this question, Climate Obstruction is a timely and sophisticated assessment of how diverse actors in the Global North intentionally and unintentionally impede appropriate climate measures of mitigation. Bringing together insights from environmental history, communication studies, psychology and sociology, the authors successfully meet their aim to provide an accessible overview that enables academics and interested readers from a wider public to explore this vibrant research field. The book’s core consists of four chapters, each of which had first been drafted by one of the respective authors. The first reconstructs the coming of age of climate obstruction organized by fossil capital, market fundamentalists and conservatives in industrial, fossil capitalism (drafted by Ekberg). The authors depict the full-fledged climate change denial machine from the late 1980s onwards (drafted by Hultman) and discuss far-right ideologies and framings of climate change that are noticeably shifting from literal denial to response skepticism and delay (drafted by Forchtner). Subsequently, they address the demand side of climate obstruction, that is, the (occasionally unintendedly) obstructive attitudes and behaviors of individuals in the wider public (drafted by Jylhä). Since these contributions can be found mostly in previous publications of the respective authors, the auspicious attempt to connect and integrate these different aspects is particularly intriguing. For this integration, the introduction of the umbrella concept of climate obstruction is key and the authors convincingly highlight its added value in contrast to more common terms as denial and skepticism. They argue that denial ‘risks depicting a far too simplistic, reductionist dichotomy between climate “deniers” and “non-deniers”’, and criticize the use of skepticism for ‘possibly even granting an aura of scientific legitimacy to those not acting’ (p. 11). Instead, they propose a threefold differentiation of obstruction in primary (denial and evidence skepticism), secondary (delay and
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