an article by Gareth A. S. Edwards (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) published in WIREs Climate Change Volume 10 Issue 5 (September/October 2019)
Abstract
This overview adopts a critical social science perspective to examine the state of play and potential futures for coal in the context of climate change.
It introduces key trends in coal consumption, production and trade, before reviewing the relevant literature.
Finding surprisingly little literature directly focused on coal and climate change, it appraises existing work and highlights key areas for future research.
In addition to established literatures on the situated politics of coal and the political economy of coal, new work calling for demand side policies to be supplemented with supply side policies highlights the increasing importance of normative contestations in driving debates over coal. This suggests that scholars must engage much more directly with climate change as an issue, and particularly with the place of coal in a just transition.
Because of coal's mammoth contribution to climate change and the complex political economy which drives its production and consumption, it is likely that coal will remain at the center of difficult questions about the relationship between climate action and development for quite some time.
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Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Friday, 20 September 2019
Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations
an article by Inigo Gonzalez‐Ricoy (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Felipe Rey
Pontificia (Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia) published in WIREs Climate Change Volume 10 Issue 5 (September/October 2019)
Abstract
Representing unborn generations to more suitably include future interests in today's climate policymaking has sparked much interest in recent years.
In this review we survey the main proposed instruments to achieve this effect, some of which have been attempted in polities such as Israel, Philippines, Wales, Finland, and Chile.
We first review recent normative work on the idea of representing future people in climate governance: The grounds on which it has been advocated, and the main difficulties that traditional forms of representation have encountered when applied to this particular case.
We then survey existing institutional means to represent generations to come. We separate out representation in courts, in parliament, and by independent bodies, and review specific instruments including climate litigation, parliamentary commissions, future representatives, youth quotas, and independent offices for future generations. We examine the particular forms whereby each of these may suitably represent future people, including audience representation, surrogate representation, and indicative representation, and discuss the main challenges they encounter in so doing.
Pontificia (Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia) published in WIREs Climate Change Volume 10 Issue 5 (September/October 2019)
Abstract
Representing unborn generations to more suitably include future interests in today's climate policymaking has sparked much interest in recent years.
In this review we survey the main proposed instruments to achieve this effect, some of which have been attempted in polities such as Israel, Philippines, Wales, Finland, and Chile.
We first review recent normative work on the idea of representing future people in climate governance: The grounds on which it has been advocated, and the main difficulties that traditional forms of representation have encountered when applied to this particular case.
We then survey existing institutional means to represent generations to come. We separate out representation in courts, in parliament, and by independent bodies, and review specific instruments including climate litigation, parliamentary commissions, future representatives, youth quotas, and independent offices for future generations. We examine the particular forms whereby each of these may suitably represent future people, including audience representation, surrogate representation, and indicative representation, and discuss the main challenges they encounter in so doing.
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Sleepwalking into lock-in? Avoiding wrongs to future people in the governance of solar radiation management research
an article by Catriona McKinnon (University of Reading, UK) published in Environmental PoliticsVolume 28 Issue 3 (2019)
Abstract
Arguments are advanced for two ways in which we can avoid the reckless endangerment of future people in the governance of solar radiation management (SRM) research, which could happen through lock-in to SRM deployment from research.
SRM research is at an early stage, one at which the mechanisms of lock-in could start to operate.
However, lock-in fit to endanger future people could be slowed or stopped through targeted governance. Governance of SRM research that does not include provisions to detect, slow, or stop lock-in fails the test of an intergenerationally adequate precautionary principle, and research governed without these provisions cannot itself be justified as a precaution against the impacts of climate change.
Abstract
Arguments are advanced for two ways in which we can avoid the reckless endangerment of future people in the governance of solar radiation management (SRM) research, which could happen through lock-in to SRM deployment from research.
SRM research is at an early stage, one at which the mechanisms of lock-in could start to operate.
However, lock-in fit to endanger future people could be slowed or stopped through targeted governance. Governance of SRM research that does not include provisions to detect, slow, or stop lock-in fails the test of an intergenerationally adequate precautionary principle, and research governed without these provisions cannot itself be justified as a precaution against the impacts of climate change.
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