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{"title":"Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws","authors":"Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, Maria Gustafsson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44899755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citizens United and State environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes","authors":"Micah Farver","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43147923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal","authors":"M. Davidson, Xue Gao, Joshua W. Busby, C. Shearer, Joshua Eisenman","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for their decision to cease financing overseas coal projects despite prominent differences in political systems, degree of internationalization of their financial systems, and economic size? Drawing on datasets of coal projects and financing supplemented by case material and interviews, this paper explores the dynamics of coal export finance and how the combination of international reputational pressures and declining demand for coal finance diminished the domestic support for incumbent coal exporters in all three countries.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42402723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet","authors":"Hauke Dannemann","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659","url":null,"abstract":"Facing the increasingly brutal consequences of failed climate politics and swelling polarization, one of the most pressing questions of our time is why humanity seems to be unable to act adequately on climate change. Grappling with this question, Climate Obstruction is a timely and sophisticated assessment of how diverse actors in the Global North intentionally and unintentionally impede appropriate climate measures of mitigation. Bringing together insights from environmental history, communication studies, psychology and sociology, the authors successfully meet their aim to provide an accessible overview that enables academics and interested readers from a wider public to explore this vibrant research field. The book’s core consists of four chapters, each of which had first been drafted by one of the respective authors. The first reconstructs the coming of age of climate obstruction organized by fossil capital, market fundamentalists and conservatives in industrial, fossil capitalism (drafted by Ekberg). The authors depict the full-fledged climate change denial machine from the late 1980s onwards (drafted by Hultman) and discuss far-right ideologies and framings of climate change that are noticeably shifting from literal denial to response skepticism and delay (drafted by Forchtner). Subsequently, they address the demand side of climate obstruction, that is, the (occasionally unintendedly) obstructive attitudes and behaviors of individuals in the wider public (drafted by Jylhä). Since these contributions can be found mostly in previous publications of the respective authors, the auspicious attempt to connect and integrate these different aspects is particularly intriguing. For this integration, the introduction of the umbrella concept of climate obstruction is key and the authors convincingly highlight its added value in contrast to more common terms as denial and skepticism. They argue that denial ‘risks depicting a far too simplistic, reductionist dichotomy between climate “deniers” and “non-deniers”’, and criticize the use of skepticism for ‘possibly even granting an aura of scientific legitimacy to those not acting’ (p. 11). Instead, they propose a threefold differentiation of obstruction in primary (denial and evidence skepticism), secondary (delay and","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":"1104 - 1106"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44494050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate justice in India","authors":"Ajmal Khan A. T.","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2216102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2216102","url":null,"abstract":"inequality and flexibilization, individualization and singularization as well as depoliticization and post-politics. Nevertheless, Climate Obstruction is an eyeopening, thought-provoking contribution and a must-read for everybody who despairs of understanding why late modern societies are sliding into climate catastrophe with their eyes wide open, or – to be precise – are already in the midst of it.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":"1106 - 1108"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44432898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world","authors":"J. Davidson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213135","url":null,"abstract":"management, and environmental activism’ (p. 17). While one may be sympathetic to such an effort, it is a risky enterprise in a world where attacking science is a part of current political practice, a challenge she duly acknowledges. Science, she says, must never be reduced to a matter of identity politics. Decolonising science is not about ‘offering a new kingdom of thought to replace the disciplines’ (p. 178), but rather to transform our thinking about what it is to know. Her insights are an inspiring contribution to the efforts to ‘think athwart’ and the book deserves to be read with attention and care.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":"942 - 944"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa","authors":"Synne Movik","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":"940 - 942"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation","authors":"Zhuchen Li, Ya-Ru Zhu","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":"945 - 947"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42681890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris","authors":"Klaus Dingwerth","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2210488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2210488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet","authors":"Geoffrey Henderson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2209004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2209004","url":null,"abstract":"hurdles to climate action deserve a deeper discussion. Culture and civil society are critical arenas for cementing as well as challenging hegemony in the Gramscian framework. The book discusses climate representations in novels, films and television, but critiques them as ‘climate spectacle’ that reinforces a passive politics of suffering and pity, representing a form of ‘disaster capitalism’ that paradoxically sustains fossil fuel hegemony. The book claims that apocalyptic portrayals provide a ‘fanciful diversion that fails to seriously challenge or even acknowledge the cataclysmic inevitability of our current political and economic order’ (p.143). The authors also perhaps indulge in over-optimism when they mention indigenous artifacts on remote islands as subversive texts. A more subtle discussion of the cultural politics of climate representations might suggest how they also raise awareness and perhaps stimulate action. The final chapters of the book describe the emergence of new forms of activism and potential futures, leaning on Gramsci’s analysis of political crises. Political ecologists have also argued that our experiences of nature could facilitate more fundamental change, leveraging Gramsci’s insight that human consciousness and ‘common sense’ are forged through interactions with the everyday material and natural worlds. As we endure increasing climate stresses, both directly and through the media, this book provides the intellectual guidance to help us make sense of the wider system in which climate risks are manifesting; seeing the crisis clearly, ‘without illusions but without becoming disillusioned’, in Gramsci’s words, could drive the counter-hegemonic organizing needed to put humanity on a more hopeful trajectory.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":"90 1-2","pages":"937 - 939"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41297523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}