scholarly journals On the political feasibility of climate change mitigation pathways: Is it too late to keep warming below 1.5°C?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Jewell ◽  
Aleh Cherp
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Feasibility ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals The gap between self-reported and actual contributions to climate change mitigation in US residents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giangiacomo Bravo ◽  
Mike Farjam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Change Mitigation

Surveys measures of environmental concern are know to only weakly predict self-reported environmental behaviour. In addition, self-reported and actual behaviour may not match in empirical settings. To better explore the relation among these variables and the political stance of participants, we ran an online experiment with 805 US residents. Four key variables – environmental concern, self -reported environmental behaviour, observed environmental behaviour (in the form of carbon compensation), and political attitudes – were measured and their interactions in promoting pro-environment behaviour were analysed. We found that self-reported measures hardly held any correlation with real behaviour and that political attitudes mainly predicted self-reported measures, not real environmental behaviour.

scholarly journals Track 2.d Introduction: Power and Politics in Design for Transition

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna BOEHNERT ◽  
Idil GAZIULUSOY ◽  
Dan LOCKTON ◽  
Ida Nilstad PETTERSEN ◽  
Matt SINCLAIR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Design Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Politics Of Design ◽  
The Many ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Change Mitigation

This track sought to contribute to design’s potential to shift, redirect and transform power relations to achieve sustainability. We sought to direct attention to the political potential in and politics of transition design with a focus on the many ways that power flows through the systems in which design operates. Our intention was to address, directly, the commentary from the DRS2018 track on Designing for Transitions, which noted that authors had tended to “stay on the safe and perhaps conventional side” of the subject. Instead, we hoped that the papers in this track would address “‘politicised issues such as migration, decoloniality, the politics of climate change mitigation… and other complex and controversial problems” (Boehnert et al. 2018) that must be considered in planning and implementation of ongoing sustainability transitions. The politics of design transitions remains marginal in design research. With our call, we hoped to receive contributions that problematised design’s current roles and conceptualised new roles for design in the context of sustainability transitions to attend to issues related to how power is and should be dealt with. 

Beyond market behavior: Evolved cognition and folk political economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talbot M. Andrews ◽  
Andrew W. Delton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractBoyer & Petersen (B&P) lay out a compelling theory for folk-economic beliefs, focusing on beliefs about markets. However, societies also allocate resources through mechanisms involving power and group decision-making (e.g., voting), through the political economy. We encourage future work to keep folkpoliticaleconomic beliefs in mind, and sketch an example involving pollution and climate change mitigation policy.

scholarly journals The political economy of carbon pricing: a panel analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffroy Dolphin ◽  
Michael G Pollitt ◽  
David M Newbery
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Political ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Change Mitigation

Abstract In virtually all jurisdictions that explicitly price carbon, its average (emissions-weighted) price remains low. Our analysis focuses on the political economy of its introduction as well as its stringency in an international panel of national and North American subnational jurisdictions. Results suggest that political economy factors primarily affected the former and that policy stringency is a highly persistent process. This has two important policy implications. First, successful passage of carbon pricing legislation will either come with contemporaneous compensation of incumbent, CO2-intensive, sectors or occur after their relative weakening. Second, if political economy constraints continue to prevail, climate change mitigation strategies will require multiple instruments.

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