Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics

IF 3.9 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environmental Politics Pub Date : 2021-10-27 DOI:10.1162/glep_a_00640

Bentley B. Allan, Joanna I. Lewis, Thomas Oatley

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Abstract

Abstract The rise of green industrial policy has injected purpose and competition into global environmental politics. Efforts to build green industry have raised the economic and geopolitical stakes of environmental issues as states seek to position their firms in global value chains and reshore strategic industries. This could help to generate the technologies and political momentum needed to accelerate global decarbonization. At the same time, these green interventions confront status quo interests and a variety of industrial policies that support fossil fuel-based industries. To help make sense of this new landscape, this introduction to the special issue defines green industrial policy and situates it within domestic political economy, social policy, and global geopolitics. We present six new studies that demonstrate and explore the global politics of green industrial policy. To illustrate the kinds of effects and implications of green industrial policy we are interested in exploring, we show how green industrial policy has transformed climate politics. Changes in state practice, ideas about the environment and economy, and technological cost declines came together to produce a new opportunistic and competitive climate politics. We then identify areas for further investigation as we call for a new climate politics research agenda, integrating green industrial policy more intentionally into studies of global environmental politics.

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绿色产业政策与全球气候政治转型

绿色产业政策的兴起为全球环境政治注入了目的和竞争。随着各国寻求将其企业定位于全球价值链并将战略性产业迁回本国，建设绿色产业的努力提高了环境问题的经济和地缘政治利害关系。这可能有助于产生加速全球脱碳所需的技术和政治动力。与此同时，这些绿色干预措施面临着现状利益和各种支持化石燃料工业的产业政策。为了更好地理解这一新形势，本期特刊的导言对绿色产业政策进行了界定，并将其置于国内政治经济、社会政策和全球地缘政治的背景下。我们提出了六项新的研究，展示并探讨了绿色产业政策的全球政治。为了说明我们感兴趣探索的绿色产业政策的影响和含义，我们展示了绿色产业政策如何改变了气候政治。国家实践的变化、对环境和经济的看法以及技术成本的下降共同产生了一种新的机会主义和竞争性气候政治。然后，我们确定了进一步调查的领域，因为我们呼吁建立一个新的气候政治研究议程，将绿色产业政策更有意地纳入全球环境政治研究。

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Global Environmental Politics Multiple-

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Global Environmental Politics examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change, with particular attention given to the implications of local-global interactions for environmental management as well as the implications of environmental change for world politics. Each issue is divided into research articles and a shorter forum articles focusing on issues such as the role of states, multilateral institutions and agreements, trade, international finance, corporations, science and technology, and grassroots movements.