Understanding policy divergence after United Kingdom devolution: Strategic action fields in Scottish energy efficiency policy

Between a Burden and Green Technology: Rishi Sunak’s Framing of Climate Change Discourse on Facebook and X (Twitter)

“…Consequently, Sunak's framing of climate change as Net Zero lends support to the literature (Booth, 2023;Gregory & Geels, 2024;Meckling & Allan, 2020;Paterson, 2021;Van Coppenolle et al, 2023), which demonstrates that the notion of net zero is incorporated into the current British political discourse on the issue of climate change. Another finding that follows from Table 2 is represented by the frame International Agreements, which reverberates with the literature (Johnston & Deeming, 2016;Porter et al, 2015;Webb & van der Horst, 2021;Youngs & Lazard, 2023), which posits that British political discourse on climate change is associated with legislative and statutory acts that aim at facilitating and adapting climate change-related laws and regulations. Additionally, the presence of the frames Green Technology and Pragmatism (see Table 2) buttresses the literature (Bowen & Rydge, 2011;Porter et al, 2015), which postulates that the British government considers climate change mitigation in conjunction with science-and technology-driven solutions (Johnston & Deeming, 2016).…”

“…The practical measures of achieving net zero involve the introduction and adaptation of legislative acts associated with a more extensive use of renewable energy sources and other measures of climate change mitigation (Johnston & Deeming, 2016;Porter et al, 2015). To date, the British government has introduced multiple statutory acts, initiatives, and services, whose aims are to facilitate the adaptation of the British political actors to the demands and obligations associated with net zero (Webb & van der Horst, 2021). Notably, a substantial bulk of British net zero-related activities are coordinated with the European Union, even though the UK is no longer its part (Youngs & Lazard, 2023).…”

“…Judging from the data, the frames testify to the economisation of climate change by Sunak, whose framing of the issue encapsulates, first of all, economic forces (Almiron et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2023). Interestingly, the frames Burden and Green Technology are more frequent than the frame Net Zero, despite the fact that the catchphrase "net zero" is widely used in the current political discourse in the UK (Booth, 2023;Paterson, 2021;Van Coppenolle et al, 2023;Webb & van der Horst, 2021).…”

Decarbonising suburbia: Homeowners’ perspectives on home retrofits and travel mode shift in Perth, Scotland

“…For example, the 'Zero Carbon Homes and Code for Sustainable Homes' policy has been removed (CCC, 2019). The remarkable lack of UK government ambitions to address energy efficiency in the built environment stands in clear contrast with the efforts made by the devolved administration in Scotland (Wade et al, 2022;Webb and van der Horst, 2021), but in general, low carbon housing funding priorities seem to go towards flats, social housing, the fuel poor or towards low carbon new builds thus paying insufficient attention to the housing category of existing owner-occupied suburban homes (Alexander and Gleeson, 2018;Frantál and Dvořák, 2022).…”