Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime

Oh, Chaewoon

doi:10.1080/13563467.2019.1639147

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“…The IPCC and UNFCCC are responsible for pledging 197 countries (as on December 2015) to take the responsibility to stabilize the greenhouse CO 2 gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system. Furthermore, for example, according to IPCC and UNFCCC by 2030, the European Union (EU) has to meet ≥27% of their primary energy requirement from the renewable energy resources, which ensures up to 40% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions in comparison to 1990 levels [235][236][237][238][239]. Today, EU gets about 50% of its primary energy from imported fossil fuels.…”

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Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis: Its Relevance, Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities

Ganesh

2023

Univers. J. Catal. Sci.

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The single main resource for the survival of humankind on this planet is the sunlight and it is freely coming to every home like the life-supporting gas, oxygen, is coming to every individual. When society becomes master in harvesting such a precious, Omnipresent, carbon-neutral, clean, freely and abundantly available renewable energy resource sunlight in a suitable form of chemical energy such as, H2, O2, CO, methanol, gasoline (petrol), diesel, etc., with a minimum conversion efficiency of 10% by using carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) as energy storing materials, which is referred to as the “Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis (PAP)” process, it can be employed for commercial practice with economic viability to meet all the energy needs of the society without any back-up by electricity generated at thermal power plants by burning greenhouse gas CO2 releasing fossil fuels. In fact, the PAP process is the only option available today for humankind to make energy, environment, economy, and life sustainable on our only habitable planet, Earth. In this article, (i) how the PAP process can change the global energy economy and energy dynamics of the world while solving all the humanities top 10 problems for the next 50 years, (ii) how the entire CO2 gas generated as a waste across the globe at all the major outlets can be eventually converted into petrol (i.e., gasoline) given the fossil fuels cannot sustain our civilization’s economic growth, (iii) the effectiveness of existing CO2 sequestration vs. carbon capture and utilization (CCU) processes, (iv) nature’s response to anthropogenic CO2 gas rise in the atmosphere, (v) steps involved in the realization of a desirable PAP process, (vi) why silicon photovoltaic cell (SPVC) solar panels cannot solve the energy problems of our society considering the outcome of Germany’s Energiewende program, etc., have been meticulously presented and described in this article.

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Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis: Its Relevance, Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities

Ganesh

2023

Univers. J. Catal. Sci.

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“…Further, responses to this variable is of relevance to the "Green Governmentalism" climate change discourse indicating the individuals' disposition toward committing their countries to international environmental agreements, compatible with notions of global governance and preference toward multilateral international approach and commitment in dealing with common global problems such as climate change [29,59]. Governments have a central role in the green governmental paradigm, "adopting science and technology push-policies to fund formal R&D and pull-policies to generate demands for climate technologies by traditional regulatory measures" [95]. Inclusion of this measure thus allows for explanation on "public opinion towards making international agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol in order to regulate environmental problems, and persuading their citizens that bind their countries in environmental measures that are costly to them" [29].…”

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How Different Are the Nordics? Unravelling the Willingness to Make Economic Sacrifices for the Environment

Reyes

2021

Sustainability

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The Nordic countries are often considered as remarkably exceptional in terms of the proenvironmental behavior of their citizens and also as forerunners in environmental policies. However, very few empirical studies have been done at the aggregated level about how the Nordics compare to other countries. The article addresses this knowledge gap and analyzes the Nordic region in terms of willingness to make economic sacrifices, proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. Data (N = 5877) from the environment module of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) are utilized, with nonparametric statistical tests and multinomial logistic regression employed—wherein, emphasis is placed on the regression models for willingness as dependent variables as analysis of the first order, with attitudes, behaviors and sociodemographic variables as part of second order analysis. The findings reveal that the region’s higher levels of willingness, attitudes, and behaviors become more salient when compared to third countries. People in the Nordic region who are ‘neither willing nor unwilling’ to protect the environment can be considered as distinct, and should not be arbitrarily lumped within the categories of the ‘unwilling’ or ‘willing’ respondents. These insights allow for a deeper understanding of peoples’ willingness and the relationships to respective attitudes and behaviors beneficial towards engaging the acceptability of extant environmental policies.

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“…A discourse is 'a web of meanings, ideas, interactions and practices that are expressed or represented in texts (spoken and written language, gesture, and visual imagery), within institutional and everyday settings' [17, p.129]. Multiple discourses exist and, for those who subscribe to them, constitute 'a shared way of apprehending the world' [18, p.9], containing a 'storyline' [15] that gives a particular pattern of meaning to social and physical phenomena [19,20]. An important concept for this paper is the 'discourse coalition', defined as an ensemble of actors that, for diverse reasons, are attracted to specific storylines and engage in practices that reproduce those storylines [15].…”

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Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism

Riedy

2020

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis: Its Relevance, Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities

Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis: Its Relevance, Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities

How Different Are the Nordics? Unravelling the Willingness to Make Economic Sacrifices for the Environment

Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism

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