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| DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.001 |
| The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act | |
| Lockwood M. | |
| 发表日期 | 2013 |
| ISSN | 0959-3780 |
| 卷号 | 23期号:5 |
| 英文摘要 | This paper assesses the forces working for and against the political sustainability of the UK 2008 Climate Change Act. The adoption of the Act is seen as a landmark commitment to action on climate change, but its implementation has not been studied in any depth. Recent events, including disagreements over the fourth carbon budget and the decarbonisation of the electricity sector, shows that while the Act might appear to lock in a commitment to reducing emissions through legal means, this does not guarantee political lock-in. The assumption, made by some proponents of the Act, that accountability of political leaders to a public concerned about climate change, via Parliament, would provide the main political underpinning to the Act is criticised. An analysis of alternative sources of political durability is presented, drawing on a framework for understanding the sustainability of reform developed by Patashnik. It is argued that the Act has helped create major institutional transformations, although the degree to which new institutions have displaced the power of existing ones is limited. The Act has produced some policy feedback effects, especially in the business community, and some limited investment effects, but both have been insufficient to withstand destabilisation by recent party political conflicts. The Climate Change Act remains at risk. © 2013 The Author. |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change; Climate policy; Politics; Public opinion; UK |
| 学科领域 | carbon budget; climate change; electricity industry; environmental policy; environmental politics; institutional framework; perception; political conflict; political power; sustainability; United Kingdom |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | carbon budget; climate change; electricity industry; environmental policy; environmental politics; institutional framework; perception; political conflict; political power; sustainability; United Kingdom |
| 来源期刊 | Global Environmental Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118007 |
| 作者单位 | Energy Policy Group, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Peter Lanyon Building, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, United Kingdom |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lockwood M.. The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act[J],2013,23(5). |
| APA | Lockwood M..(2013).The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act.Global Environmental Change,23(5). |
| MLA | Lockwood M.."The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013). |
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