Between 2006 and 2010 climate change rose rapidly up the UK political agenda and the
Labour Government, with cross‐party support, introduced major changes in domestic …

Climate change is fuelling a significant renaissance in the national environmental movement
in the UK. The broad aim of this article is better to understand the extent to which the 2006 …

This article provides an overview of the politics of climate policy with a focus on carbon
pricing politics under recent Australian Labor governments. It reviews and explains the …

There is a curious disjunction between the Labour Government's international actions and
its domestic policy. Although Tony Blair did much to promote the climate change agenda on …

This paper assesses the forces working for and against the political sustainability of the UK
2008 Climate Change Act. The adoption of the Act is seen as a landmark commitment to …

Although levels of concern and awareness about climate change have been rising in many
nations over the past 20 years, climate change remains of low importance relative to other …

Climate change has come to hold a central position within many policy arenas. However, a
particular framing of climate change and climate science, underpinned by modernist …

The UK's engagement with the whole issue of climate change has been rather paradoxical.
On the one hand it is widely regarded as a global leader, both in terms of its international …

Climate change is a defining issue in contemporary life. Since the Industrial Revolution,
heavy reliance on carbon-based sources for energy in industry and society has contributed …

The geophysical phenomena of climate change impact on the existing organization of
energy economies and their attendant politics in multiple ways—at times magnifying and at …