New paper on Net Zero

[Jessica Green]

Dear all,

 

Apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but you may wish to have a look at a new paper out in Climate Policy.  It’s a great “workhorse” paper – shows rigorously what we already know about net zero.  There’s a lot of talk, but not a lot of implementation.  This is a meta-review of the literature which provides details about what we know and don’t know about net zero.  Link to the twitter thread is here, and link to the paper is here.  Happy to send a PDF if anyone doesn’t have access.

 

Best,

Jessica

 

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Jessica F. Green

Professor of Political Science

@greenprofgreen

https://green.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca

 

Recent Publications:

Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change, International Organization

Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses, Environmental Research Letters

Beyond Carbon Pricing: Tax Reform is Climate Policy, Global Policy

Why Climate Change Demands Activism in the Academy, Daedalus

 

[Aseem Prakash]

Hi Jessica: Thanks; look forward to reading it.

Here is another paper on net zero pledges. this is open access

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000094

Have renewable energy leaders announced aggressive emission reduction goals? Examining variations in the stringency of country-level net-zero emission pledges The 2015 Paris Agreement outlined the goal to limit temperature increases below 2°C, preferably to 1.5°C. In response, several countries have announced net-zero emission pledges (NZEP). The credibility of these pledges varies because countries have committed to different target years. Moreover, some pledges outline sectoral as opposed to economy-wide targets and vary in how they monitor progress. To assess the pledge’s credibility, we create a novel NZEP stringency score. We find that climate leaders with a higher share of renewable energy in final energy consumption are more likely to have announced more stringent NZEPs. However, economic development, the size of the economy, countries’ embeddedness in international environmental treaties, and the robustness of domestic civil society are not associated with NZEP stringency. journals.plos.org

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[Jessica Green]

Super!  Look forward to reading this!

 

Thanks

Jessica

 

 

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Jessica F. Green

Professor of Political Science

University of Toronto

@greenprofgreen

https://green.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca

 

 

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Hi Jessica: Thanks; look forward to reading it.

 

Here is another paper on net zero pledges. this is open access

 

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000094

[Susan Park]

Dear all,

 

This is a reminder that the annual call for special issue proposals for Global Environmental Politics is closing on November 1 and we very much encourage submissions. Details can be found here: https://direct.mit.edu/glep/pages/special_issues

 

Best,

Susan

 

Susan Park

Professor of Global Governance

Discipline of Government and International Relations

University of Sydney

Social Sciences Building A02 Sydney NSW 2006

Australia

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W: www.susanmpark.com

  

Editor Global Environmental Politics

 

New:

The Good Hegemon: US Power, Accountability as Justice, and the MDBs (OUP, 2022)

Database V5: Claims Submitted to the MDB Accountability Mechanisms 1994-2022

Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

 

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