ABSTRACT
The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last decade in response to the perceived failure of the political negotiations.
This book provides a unique comparative study of environmental movements in USA, Japan, Denmark and Sweden, analyzing their interaction with the international climate institutions of the United Nations, with national governments, and with currents in the global climate movement. It documents how and why the movement evolved between the Copenhagen Summit of 2009 and the Paris Summit of 2015, altering its strategies and tactics while attracting new actors to the issue area. Further, it demonstrates how the development of global environmental networks has increased contact between environmental movements in the Global North and those from the Global South, resulting in the establishment of ‘climate justice’ as a political cause and unifying frame for global climate activism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|95 pages
Global perspectives
chapter 3|24 pages
Governing dissent in a state of emergency
chapter 4|23 pages
Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere
chapter 5|21 pages
COP as a global public sphere
part II|92 pages
National environmental movements in a global context
chapter 7|22 pages
Between government and grassroots
chapter 9|24 pages
The Swedish environmental movement
part III|28 pages
Concluding reflections