Description
The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last decade in response to the perceived failure of the political negotiations.
This book provides a unique comparative study of environmental movements in USA, Japan, Denmark and Sweden, analyzing their interaction with the international climate institutions of the United Nations, with national governments, and with currents in the global climate movement. It documents how and why the movement evolved between the Copenhagen Summit of 2009 and the Paris Summit of 2015, altering its strategies and tactics while attracting new actors to the issue area. Further, it demonstrates how the development of global environmental networks has increased contact between environmental movements in the Global North and those from the Global South, resulting in the establishment of 窶歪limate justice窶� as a political cause and unifying frame for global climate activism.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Climate action in a globalizing world 窶� an introduction
Part I: Global Perspectives: COP as a space for climate action
Chapter 2: Climate justice, equity and movement mobilization
Chapter 3: Governing dissent in a state of emergency: police and protester interactions in the global space of the COP
Chapter 4: Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere: global solidarity and the regime of rationality
Chapter 5: COP as a global public sphere: news media frames, movement frames and media standing of climate movement actors
Part II: National environmental movements in global context: United States, Japan, Denmark and Sweden
Chapter 6: Learning From Defeat: The Strategic Reorientation of the U.S. Climate Movement
Chapter 7: Between Government and Grassroots: Challenges to Institutionalization in the Japanese Environmental Movement
Chapter 8: Denmark 窶� from a green economy toward a new eco-radicalism?
Chapter 9: The Swedish environmental movement: politics of responsibility between climate justice and local transition
PART III: Concluding reflections: new perspectives on climate action
Chapter 10: Hegemony and environmentalist strategy - global governance, movement mobilization, and climate justice
