Protecting the climate to challenge the centre? Secessionism and climate policy preferences in Catalonia

Joan Enguer, Rosa M. Navarrete
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ABSTRACTClimate policy is mostly ruled by national governments, which in multi-level systems creates tensions with sub-national tiers. Recent research has suggested that political parties’ climate policy preferences and their stances on decentralisation are associated as pro-peripheral parties tend to assume the role of climate pioneers not solely due to environmental concerns, but also as a means to challenge the central authority of the state. In this research, we analyse whether the salience of climate change in the manifestos of parties competing in the 2017 and 2021 Catalan regional elections varies between them and if these differences are associated with the aforementioned cleavage. Our empirical findings reveal that the prominence given to climate change in the manifestos of the parties studied tends to be higher the more pro-periphery the positions of parties are, and the more salient decentralisation and independence.KEYWORDS: Climate policysubnational electionscentre–peripherygreen nationalismregional parties AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Professor Dr. Jale Tosun for her helpful comments and recommendations to previous versions of this article. Likewise, we appreciate the feedback received from the members of the research team ‘DeepDCarb’ (https://www.deepdcarb.org) as well as from various participants at the Council for European Studies’ Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists. Finally, we would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to the editor, Christina Zuber, for her diligent work in reviewing our manuscript and her constructive feedback.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The coding of the manifestos was carried out by the first author, followed by an intra-coder reliability check to ensure consistency in the coding process. In a subsequent step, the quasi-sentences within the manifestos written in Spanish Castilian were independently coded by the second author to assess inter-coder reliability. It is worth noting that any misclassifications primarily affected sub-categories and did not significantly impact the overall outcome.2 ‘Pro environment’, ‘pro-climate policy’, ‘pro lower carbon energy’, ‘pro lower carbon transport’, ‘pro carbon sinks’, ‘planning’, ‘agriculture and food’, ‘waste’, and ‘anti-growth’.3 ’Pro roads’, ‘pro aviation and shipping’, ‘pro fossil fuel’, ‘anti-environment’, ‘anti climate’, ‘anti-nuclear’, ‘pro-growth’, ‘anti-taxes’, ‘pro tourism’, and ‘pro global free trade’.4 Original text: ‘Des de les mateixes institucions catalanes caldrà garantir que els projectes de reconstrucció derivats de la pandèmia estiguin alineats amb els objectius socials, econòmics, i climàtics que contempla el European Green Deal, i que una part d’ells siguin directament impulsats pel món local’.5 Original text: ‘Hem de ser capaços, a través del nou planejament d’ordenació territorial, d’identificar a escala territorial els principals riscos climàtics i de concretar les directrius de desenvolupament per abordar-los amb èxit’.6 Original text: ‘Defensarem l’esperit de la Llei de Canvi Climàtic i el Decret d’Energies Renovables del Parlament de Catalunya, amb un model de producció energètic plenament descentralitzat que posi en primer pla la necessitat que la UE inverteixi de manera substancial contra el canvi climàtic, incloent-hi la recerca i el desenvolupament de noves tecnologies netes que permetin generar llocs de treball d’alt valor afegit a Catalunya’7 Original text: ‘Tendir progressivament a anivellar l’impost sobre el petroli i el gasoil amb la mitjana europea, en funció de les emissions contaminants, i crear un impost sobre l’energia nuclear i l’emmagatzematge de residus radioactius, la recaptació del qual es destinaria en part a un fons, gestionat per les comunitats autònomes, per al desenvolupament alternatiu de les zones on se situen les centrals, per millorar-ne el teixit econòmic’8 Original text: ‘Reclamar la distribució territorial entre les comunitats autònomes dels recursos destinats a materialitzar polítiques de recerca, mitigació i adaptació al canvi climàtic’.9 Original text: ‘En un planeta on els recursos naturals són finits i el canvi climàtic és un fet, la República tindrà el deure i la responsabilitat de canviar cap a un model productiu sostenible i de consum responsable que garanteixi les necessitats de les generacions futures’.10 A name given to the country that would be formed in a hypothetical and independent political union of all Catalan-speaking regions (Fuster Citation1977).11 Original text: ‘Per aquest motiu, i amb l’objectiu d’encarar el repte d’una veritable revolució ecològica, considerem imprescindible articular un programa de transició ecosocial que redefineixi el nostre camí en un marc ecològic i dibuixi els passos que caldrà fer per avançar cap a una revolució ecològica als Països Catalans la dècada vinent’.Additional informationFundingJoan Enguer would like to thank the ERC for their financial support to the DeepDCarb project [grant number 882601]. For further details, see the DeepDCarb website (https://www.deepdcarb.org).
保护气候挑战中心?加泰罗尼亚的分离主义和气候政策偏好
joan Enguer感谢ERC对DeepDCarb项目的财政支持[授权号882601]。欲了解更多详细信息,请参阅DeepDCarb网站(https://www.deepdcarb.org)。
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