- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses
- A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem
- The Nature of the Problem
- The Poverty of Climate Economics
- The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Voices of Vulnerability: The Reconfiguration of Policy Discourses
- Environmentality
- The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics
- Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology
- Organized Climate Change Denial
- Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap
- Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change
- Weighing Climate Futures: A Critical Review of the Application of Economic Valuation
- Global Change Vulnerability Assessments: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Health Hazards
- Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses
- Climate Change and ‘Security’
- Human Security
- Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories, and Contestations
- From Efficiency to Justice: Utility as the Informational Basis of Climate Strategies, and Some Alternatives
- Climate Justice
- International Justice
- Intergenerational Justice
- Public Opinion and Participation
- Social Movements and Global Civil Society
- Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities
- Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture, and Political Economy
- The Role of Religions in Activism
- Comparing State Responses
- Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China
- Cities and Subnational Governments
- Issues of Scale in Climate Governance
- Decarbonizing the Welfare State
- Discourses of the Global South
- Economic Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Policy Instruments in Practice
- Carbon Trading: A Critique
- Redesigning Energy Systems
- Corporate Responses
- Is Green Consumption Part of the Solution?
- Selling Carbon: From International Climate Regime to Global Carbon Market
- Improving the Performance of the Climate Regime: Insights from Regime Analysis
- Reconceptualizing Global Governance
- The Role of International Law in Global Governance
- The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance after Copenhagen
- New Actors and Mechanisms of Global Governance
- Resilience
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Despite nearly two decades of international climate negotiations and near universal participation by states in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 1992, there has been no concerted or effective collective state response to the threat of global warming. This article provides a critical overview of research on comparative state responses to the challenge of climate change. It begins by considering some of the methodological challenges involved in assessing relative performance, focusing on the politics of measuring and judging, and then presents key data that enable comparison between the twenty states that are collectively responsible for some 85% of total global emissions. Furthermore, the article provides a critical stocktaking of the existing literature on comparative state climate performance and concludes with some broad insights on what makes a climate leader or a climate laggard.
Keywords: states response, methodological challenges, state climate performance, climate leader, Convention on Climate Change
Peter Christoff is Associate Professor, Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne.
Robyn Eckersley is Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses
- A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem
- The Nature of the Problem
- The Poverty of Climate Economics
- The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Voices of Vulnerability: The Reconfiguration of Policy Discourses
- Environmentality
- The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics
- Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology
- Organized Climate Change Denial
- Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap
- Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change
- Weighing Climate Futures: A Critical Review of the Application of Economic Valuation
- Global Change Vulnerability Assessments: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Health Hazards
- Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses
- Climate Change and ‘Security’
- Human Security
- Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories, and Contestations
- From Efficiency to Justice: Utility as the Informational Basis of Climate Strategies, and Some Alternatives
- Climate Justice
- International Justice
- Intergenerational Justice
- Public Opinion and Participation
- Social Movements and Global Civil Society
- Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities
- Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture, and Political Economy
- The Role of Religions in Activism
- Comparing State Responses
- Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China
- Cities and Subnational Governments
- Issues of Scale in Climate Governance
- Decarbonizing the Welfare State
- Discourses of the Global South
- Economic Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Policy Instruments in Practice
- Carbon Trading: A Critique
- Redesigning Energy Systems
- Corporate Responses
- Is Green Consumption Part of the Solution?
- Selling Carbon: From International Climate Regime to Global Carbon Market
- Improving the Performance of the Climate Regime: Insights from Regime Analysis
- Reconceptualizing Global Governance
- The Role of International Law in Global Governance
- The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance after Copenhagen
- New Actors and Mechanisms of Global Governance
- Resilience
- Name Index
- Subject Index
