 The Comparative Politics of Climate Change Mitigation Measures: Who Promotes Carbon Sinks and Why?Jo-Kristian S. Røttereng Global Environmental Politics, 2018, vol. 18, issue 1, 52-75 Abstract: This article presents an analysis of twenty-six industrialized countries’ support for the carbon-sequestration-based mitigation measures carbon capture and storage (CCS) and reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) during the 2007–2014 period. The article explores whether these proposed solutions to climate change share characteristics that make them feasible for reasons that can be observed in cross-national patterns. Insights from political economy, public policy, and international relations form a “triply engaged” theoretical framework. Relationships are tested using bivariate statistics and multivariate regressions. The analysis reveals that the same states show stronger support for both CCS and REDD+, and mostly for the same reasons. Proponents of such measures are generally petroleum-producing, large, and affluent, and they do not take on more ambitious mitigation targets. This article is the first to suggest that the widely different carbon-sink-based mitigation measures CCS and REDD+ may share similar political functions in similar political contexts. Date: 2018 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:52-75 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Global Environmental Politics is currently edited by Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Erika Weinthal More articles in Global Environmental Politics from MIT Press |
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