Decades of Climate Policy Failure in Canada: Can We Break the Vicious Cycle?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meinhard Doelle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Policy Failure

scholarly journals CLIMATE POLICIES: CHALLENGES, OBSTACLES AND TOOLS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Frederick van der Ploeg
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
Intergenerational Conflict ◽  
Free Rider ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Green Investments

A four-pronged approach to climate policy is presented consisting of carbon pricing, subsidies for renewable energies, transformative green investments and climate finance and engendering flywheel effects. Then, a variety of societal and political challenges and obstacles faced by such a climate policy and what can be done to overcome them are discussed. These range from stranded assets, the very long time scales needed to adapt and deal with global warming, intergenerational conflict, international free-rider problems, carbon leakage, green paradoxes, policy failure and capture, adverse income distributional effects and spatial scarcity to the problem of climate deniers and sceptics. The paper also discusses the various tools that are needed for the analysis of both ideal and workable climate policies, and the need to collaborate with complexity scholars, political scientists, sociologists and psychologists.

Trade-offs for equitable climate policy assessed

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 588 (7837) ◽  
pp. 225-226
Author(s):  
Wei Peng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Trade Offs
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