By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, this book aims to explain why climate change mitigation is so political, and why politics is also indispensable in enacting real change. It argues that politics is poorly understood and often sidelined in research and policy circles, which is an omission that must be rectified, because the policies that we rely on to drive down greenhouse gas emissions are deeply inter-connected with political and social contexts. Incorporating insights from political economy, socio-technical transitions, and public policy, this book provides a framework for understanding the role of specific ideas, interests, and institutions in shaping and driving sustainable change. The chapters present examples at global, national, and local scales, spanning from the 1990s to 2020s. This volume will prove valuable for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers interested in the politics and policy of climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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'Accessibly and engagingly written, this book expertly guides the reader through the complex world of climate politics, combining interdisciplinary theoretical insights and astute empirical observations to show how and why we have to place politics centrally in understanding societal responses to the threat of climate change.' Peter Newell, University of Sussex, author of Power Shift and States of Transition 'Caroline Kuzemko marvelously draws on international political economy, sociotechnical transitions and public policy to show why mitigation politics have remained poorly understood in the past, and why politicisation is key for designing effective policies going forward. This book is an indispensable read for scholars of climate politics and anyone who takes an interest in fighting dangerous climate change.' Andreas Goldthau, University of Erfurt 'Richly referenced, and with insightful summary tables, this book deftly parses the political qualities of mitigation and its relation to policy. Caroline Kuzemko highlights the breadth of positions on mitigation, revealing a dynamic and contested field beyond familiar appeals to 'follow the science'. Rather than keep politics at bay, she shows why policymakers should embrace the politicisation of climate to ensure a successful long-term response to climate change.' Gavin Bridge, Durham University
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This book offers novel and inclusive ways of thinking politically about how to design more just climate change mitigation policy.
Acknowledgements; Glossary;
1. Introduction: Politics can't live with
it, can't mitigate without it;
2. Perspectives on politics and climate change
mitigation;
3. Conceptualising climate change mitigation politics;
4. Phase
I: the politics of making climate mitigation a policy area;
5. Phase II: the
politics of making mitigation policy choices;
6. Phase III: the politics of
mitigation policy outcomes;
7. Phase IV: the politics of accelerating GHG
emissions reduction amidst multiple crises;
8. Politicising climate change
mitigation policy; Notes; References; Index.
Caroline Kuzemko is a Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Her work explores the roles of politics and policy in enabling, constraining, and shaping sustainable energy transformations at international, national, and local governing scales. She is an award-winning author, is a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and co-founder and co-lead of the Energy Policy, Politics and Governance research network of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Her publications include the books The Energy Security-Climate Nexus: Institutional Change in the UK and Beyond (2013, Springer) and The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security (2018, Bloomsbury); and a journal special section on New Directions in the International Political Economy of Energy in the Review of International Political Economy (2019). Prior to her academic career, Caroline was a Director at the Union Bank of Switzerland, where she worked in Latin American equities.
