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Climate science, the politics of climate change and futures of IR / Beardsworth, Richard

Beardsworth, Richard	Journal Article
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This article considers what is necessary politically to respond to the empirical challenge of climate change and to the present calls of climate science (a carbon-neutral world by 2050). Its basic argument is that, among an array of national and international actors, it remains the state that can drive a successful politics of climate change. Without the heavy-lifting of the state and the state’s ability as a national entity to motivate behavioural change, neither the daunting scale nor imminent time-horizon of climate mitigation and adaptation is possible. The article shows how this specific argument, far from pitching anew nationalism against internationalism, can bring the two presently polarized movements together. The article then suggests that if these arguments are essentially valid, the discipline of International Relations needs to focus much more on the climate challenge, re-engage with its traditions of thought on the state and help harbour a specific disposition or mindset in the research and teaching of the discipline for the next decades: a fierce optimism.

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Governance ; Climate Science ; Political Agency ; Politics of Climate Change ; Fierce Optimism

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ID: 166972

In the transition of energy systems: what lessons can be learnt from the German achievement? / Cheung, Grace

Cheung, Grace	Journal Article
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This paper assesses the energy transition in Germany from 1990 to 2017 with a focus on the politics and energy policies of the three German Chancellors. Its aim is to investigate the factors underlying the outcomes from a socio-political perspective and through this offer insight as to energy policy reforms that may be transferrable to other governments. We reveal the incremental and politically pivotal role of grassroots movements against nuclear power forming the catalyst and ongoing driver for Germany's energy transition - the Energiewende. Energiewende harbors a compelling socio-technical experiment based on government-led policy-driven structural changes to the energy system that has concurrently supported a heavily industrialized economy. Despite higher energy costs, borne disproportionally by residents, the energy vision and social experiment shared decadal and multi government cross-partisan political and community support. This socio-political policy stability provides a notable point of difference when comparing the energy transitions of lagging nations such as Australia that reveals the criticality of policy certainty to support investment towards new models of clean energy generation and distribution.

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Renewable Energy ; Energy Transition ; Climate and Energy Policy ; Politics of Climate Change ; Energiewende

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ID: 127517

India and the climate change negotiations / Joshi, P C; Khattri, Prashant

Joshi, P C	Journal Article
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2014.

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Global Warming ; India ; Climate Change ; UNFCCC ; Climate Change Negotiations ; IPCC ;
Politics of Climate Change ; United Nations

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