Comparing the Climate Policy Performance of Emerging Economies

Babette Never and Joachim Betz

World Development, 2014, vol. 59, issue C, 1-15

Abstract: Domestic climate policies and the actual environmental performance differ between emerging economies. Using a fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this paper tests the influence of the domestic green industry, the ratio of fossil fuels to financial power, the international negotiating position, and the environmental civil society in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, and South Africa. A bad ratio of domestic fossil fuel production to financial power and a weak environmental civil society are a sufficient condition for weak climate policy performance. A weak domestic green industry combined with a weak influence of the negotiations only explains some of the cases.

Keywords: climate change; environmental performance; emerging economies; green economy; QCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.016

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