Environmental Policy & Politics TB1 2024 – Seminar Discussion Board by James Palmer

Paper on 'post-decisional logics of inaction' in climate policy

jp17164 — 2024-09-26 19:28:05 UTC

A key idea put forward in week 2's lecture is that policymaking does not follow a linear, step-by-step formula or cycle, but is in fact a much messier, non-linear process without clear beginning or end. This article explores the idea that policies might even sometimes effectively be 'unmade' in the 'implementation phase', focusing on climate change policy in New Zealand and the UK.

Some further food for thought on the climate knowledge-action gap

jp17164 — 2024-09-26 19:44:20 UTC

Written by a climate scientist, this piece offers some interesting alternative ideas to those put forward by Mike Hulme

Should scientists engage in civil disobedience?

jp17164 — 2024-09-26 19:45:28 UTC

Geographer Noel Castree offers some reflections on how scientists can best adapt their practices in the face of political inaction (and even climate scepticism)

Week 3 Seminar Question

2024-10-04 10:19:10 UTC

In this weeks seminar we discussed how the value of nature and ecosystem services is considered in environmental economics. I am wondering if ecosystem services/nature in general is included in economic models used by economists? And if so how do they incorporate such a difficult concept into actual models applied to the real world?

Thanks!

How should the 'value' of nature be calculated?

jp17164 — 2024-10-09 08:35:02 UTC

For anyone interested in learning more about the challenges of using the "contingent valuation method" to put a price on nature, this paper may be of interest

An interesting article setting out some of the key concerns around forest-based carbon offsets

jp17164 — 2024-10-09 08:37:18 UTC

Geographies of Climate Change Knowledge

jp17164 — 2024-10-16 13:53:52 UTC

Hot of the press, here is a new, short paper by Susan Owens on 'Climate Geographies and Geographies of Knowledge'. A concise and very informative read for thinking critically about how expertise and knowledge of different kinds has shaped and continues to shape climate change policy and politics.

Where does the idea of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees come from?

JamesR_Palmer — 2024-10-17 15:17:24 UTC

A recent paper exploring the history of the 1.5 degree target for limiting global warming (Cointe and Guillemot 2023)

2024-10-17 18:29:41 UTC

Interesting dynamic between market direction and ESG culture - in this case, despite BPs big net-zero goals, the pressure from investors and the market led them to retract certain environmental promises made (followed by the CEO/promise-maker's resignment soon after).

Overconfidence in climate 'overshoot'?

JamesR_Palmer — 2024-10-18 11:13:55 UTC

Another hot-off-the-press paper, highly relevant to our discussions around net zero and assumptions about the capacity of society to achieve large-scale negative emissions in the coming decades. One of the co-authors of this piece is Bristol Geography's own Dr Fabien Maussion!

Last report: G20 Taskforce on a Global Mobilization against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA)

2024-10-23 13:36:20 UTC

Some ideas to share.

Web page:

https://www.g20.org/en/tracks/sherpa-track/climate-change/the-g20-taskforce-on-a-global-mobilization-against-climate-change-tf-clima

Intersectionality and Climate Justice

JamesR_Palmer — 2024-11-05 12:46:38 UTC

A recent paper calling for more attention to intersectionality in research examining climate (in)justice

Is setting a deadline for tackling climate change dangerous?

jp17164 — 2024-11-12 09:38:36 UTC

Provocative article from Asayama et al. on the risks of 'deadlinism' in environmental politics...

Assigment

2024-11-12 19:01:41 UTC

Is Vancouver referencing style appropriate for the report?

And how/ do we reference quotes taken from live conference?

Diversity & Inclusion – Tensions?

JamesR_Palmer — 2024-11-13 11:47:46 UTC

Very short recent comment piece on the tensions between diversity and inclusion in the composition of expert authors contributing to IPCC reports