Title: The Politics of Climate Change: Fight and Flight
Abstract: Climate change is both a major environmental problem and a major political problem. Addressing climate change challenges established economic patterns and interests, as well as the corporate cultures that guard those interests. The climate problem has been on the global radar for several decades now, with most governments and many corporations having climate action plans in place — albeit the effectiveness of these plans remains contested. A successful response to the climate problem requires, as a minimum, the kinds of modernisation strategies ecological modernisation (EM) promotes and the measures the corporate sector nominates as central to its social responsibilities. Yet the evidence thus far points to the contrary; warming is in fact accelerating, and at rates that are increasingly alarming (WMO, 2014; IPCC, 2014; Cai et al., 2014).
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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