European Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China

Embassy Narratives and Coalitions

von Katrin Buchmann

514 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Buchmann analyses the work of UK, German, Danish and Swedish embassies in the USA and China on climate change in the late 2000s and early 2010s. She relates which coalitions and narratives embassies sought to develop to convince China and the United States that a more progressive climate policy was possible, to achieve gains supporting an agreement under the UNFCCC. This book shows that a key interpretation of climate diplomacy was selling/trade: Europe selling technology "solutions" to solve climate change. In this narrative, Europe has already done what needs to be done and outsourcing of production to China e.g. is ignored. In the USA, embassies entered coalitions with states, faith groups and the military, arguing that a more progressive climate policy was mandated by either God or security concerns. State politicians, including Democrats, often actually didn't implement any climate policies. Any gains were reversed through climate denial lobbying funded by corporations. Embassies did not address this.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• ISBN: 9789004368149
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2022
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill