Climate Governance Across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers

ISBN-13: 9780367434366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str.

Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel; Mikael Skou Andersen; Paul Tobin

Opis

This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance, by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Introduction: Climate governance across the globe: pioneers, leaders and followers  Part 2: Global South  2. China: Emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level  3. India: From climate laggard to global solar energy leader  4. Costa Rica and Vietnam: Pioneers in green transformations  5. Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand’s climate leadership: ‘My generation’s nuclear-free moment’  6. Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia: Domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South  Part 3: United States and Europe  7. Climate change politics and policy in the United States: Forward, reverse and through the looking glass  8. European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Conference of the Parties  9. Climate policy in Germany: Pioneering a complex transformation process  10. Lessons from climate action in the UK: The limitations of state leadership  11. Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries: Small state syndrome or novel middle power?  12. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change: Institutional pioneership by a climate laggard?  13. Switzerland: International commitments and domestic drawbacks  Part 4: Conclusion  14. Conclusion: Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance reassessed