Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-11T14:16:56.754Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

11 - Smart Mixes, Non-State Governance and Climate Change

from Part III - Climate Change and Oil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2019

Judith van Erp
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Faure
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
André Nollkaemper
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Niels Philipsen
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Get access

Summary

To what extent or in what circumstances might ‘smart policy mixes’ be invoked in transnational governance rather than just as an approach to instrument and policy design at a domestic level? In the environmental context, policy mixes have been examined within the spheres of private standards and public-private partnerships (and their interactions with other instruments and actors), but there has been no comparable work on equally important “deep green” initiatives that emphasize confrontation and conflict rather than partnerships and cooperation. This Chapter is concerned with one ‘deep green’ transnational initiative that has had a remarkable impact within a relatively short period and provides insights into the potential for ‘smart mixes’ in the transnational context: the global fossil fuel divestment movement. It examines the transnational dimensions of climate governance through the lens of the divestment movement, with a focus on the movement’s interactions with and impact on a cluster of other climate change actors. It also asks the normative question of what smart mixes should be invoked in this context, as well as whether, to what extent and in what ways the insights of smart regulation in the domestic context are capable of extrapolation to transnational governance.
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Abbott, K. W. 2014. ‘Strengthening the Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change’. Transnational Environmental Law 3(1), 5788.Google Scholar
Abbott, K. W. & Sindal, D. 2009. ‘The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State’. In Mattli, W. & Woods, N. (eds.), The Politics of Global Regulation. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 4488.Google Scholar
Abbott, K. W., Levi‐Faur, D. & Snidal, D. 2017. ‘Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model’. The Annals, American Academy of Political and Social Science 670(1), 1435. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2925411 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2925411.Google Scholar
Ayling, J. 2017. ‘A Contest for Legitimacy: The Divestment Movement and the Fossil Fuel Industry’. Law & Policy 39(4), 349371.Google Scholar
Biermann, F., Pattberg, Ph. & Zelli, F. (eds.). 2012. Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Bloor, M., Datta, R., Gilinsky, Y. & Horlick-Jones, T. 2006. ‘Unicorn among the Cedars: On the Possibility of Effective “Smart Regulation” of the Globalized Shipping Industry’. Social and Legal Studies 15(4), 534551.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bodansky, D. 2016. ‘Climate Change: Transnational Legal Order or Disorder’. In Halliday, T. & Shaffer, G. (eds.), Transnational Legal Orders. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Bouteligier, S. 2011. ‘Exploring the Agency of Global Environmental Consultancy Firms in Earth System Governance’. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 11(1), 4361.Google Scholar
Braithwaite, J. 2011. ‘The Essence of Responsive Regulation’, University of British Columbia Law Review 44(3), 475520.Google Scholar
Braithwaite, J. & Drahos, P. 2000. Global Business Regulation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Bulkeley, H. et al. 2014. Transnational Climate Change Governance. New York, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Burris, S., Drahos, P. & Shearing, C. 2005. ‘Nodal Governance’. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 30, 3058.Google Scholar
Cain, M. E. 1983. ‘The General Practice Lawyer and the Client: Towards a Radical Conception’. In Dingwall, R. & Lewis, P. S. C. (eds.), The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others. London, MacMillan Press, 106130.Google Scholar
Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, The Netherlands Regulatory Reform Group & The United Kingdom Better Regulation Executive. 2010. Smart Regulation. A Cleaner, Fairer and More Competitive EU, published jointly by the Ministry for Economic and Business Affairs (Denmark) the Regulatory Reform Group (the Netherlands) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (UK).Google Scholar
Dellas, E., Pattberg, Ph. & Betsill, M. 2011. ‘Agency in Earth System Governance: Refining a Research Agenda’. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 11(1), 8598.Google Scholar
Divest-Invest Philanthropy, Doing Good: Performing Better, 2015, available at: www.divestinvest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-DIP-Briefing-Case-Studies.pdf.Google Scholar
Drahos, P. 2017. ‘Regulatory Globalisation’. In Drahos, P. (ed.), Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. Canberra, ANU Press, 249265.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Finnemore, M. & Sikkink, K. 1998. ‘International Norm Dynamics and Political Change’. International Organization 52(4), 887917.Google Scholar
Fuchs, D., ‘Governance by Discourse’, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, March 2005.Google Scholar
Granovetter, M. S. 1973. ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’. American Journal of Sociology 78(6), 13601380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Green, J. 2014. Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton, Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Gunningham, N. 2017. ‘Building Norms from the Grassroots Up: Divestment, Expressive Politics and Climate Change’. Law & Policy 39(4), 305428.Google Scholar
Gunningham, N. & Sinclair, D. 2002. Leaders and Laggards: Next Generation Environmental Regulation. Sheffield, Greenleaf Press.Google Scholar
Gunningham, N., Grabosky, P. N. & Sinclair, D. 1998. Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy. Oxford, Clarendon Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gunningham, N., Kagan, R. A. & Thornton, D. 2003. Shades of Green: Business, Regulation and Environment. Stanford, Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Hansen, J. et al. 2008. ‘Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?’. Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2(1), 217231.Google Scholar
Keck, M. E. & Sikkink, K. 1999. ‘Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics’. International Social Science Journal 51(159), 89101.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Keohane, R. O. & Victor, D. G. 2011. ‘The Regime Complex for Climate Change’, Perspectives on Politics 9(1), 723.Google Scholar
Leese, W. 2005. ‘Smart Regulation and Risk Management’. A paper prepared at the request of the Bureau du Conseil Privé/Privy Council Office Comité Consultatif Externe sur la Réglementation Intelligente (CCERI) External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation (EACSR) Ottawa, Canada, Government of Canada.Google Scholar
MacLeod, M. & Park, J. 2011. ‘Financial Activism and Global Climate Change: The Rise of Investor-driven Governance Networks’. Global Environmental Politics 11(2), 5474.Google Scholar
March, J. & Olsen, J. 1989. Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics. New York, Free Press.Google Scholar
McKibben, B. 2012. ‘Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math’. Rolling Stone, 19 July 2012, available at: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719.Google Scholar
Meckling, J., Kelsey, N., Biber, E. & Zysman, J. 2015. ‘Winning Coalitions for Climate Policy’. Science 349(6253), 11701171.Google Scholar
Oreskes, N. & Conway, E. M. 2010. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York, Bloomsbury Press.Google Scholar
Ostrom, E. 2009. ‘A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change’. In Bierbaum, R. M., Fay, M. & Ross-Larson, B. (eds.), World Development Report 2010: Development in a Changing Climate. Washington, DC, World Bank Group, 34.Google Scholar
Pattberg, Ph. & Stripple, J. 2008. ‘Beyond the Public and Private Divide: Remapping Transnational Climate Governance in the 21st Century’. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 8(4), 367388.Google Scholar
Raustiala, K. & Victor, D. G. 2004. ‘The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources’. International Organization 58(2), 277309.Google Scholar
Reich, S. 2010. Global Norms, American Sponsorship and the Emerging Patterns of World Politics. Basingstoke, Palgrave McMillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sikkink, K., 2005. ‘Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-outsider Coalition’. In Della Porta, D. & Tarrow, S. G. (eds.), Transnational Protest and Global Activism. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 151174.Google Scholar
Suchman, M. C. 1995. ‘Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches’. The Academy of Management Review 20(3), 571610.Google Scholar
Sunstein, C. R. 1996. ‘Social Norms and Social Roles’. Columbia Law Review 96(4), 903968.Google Scholar
Tollefson, C., Gale, F. & Haley, D. 2008. Setting the Standard: Certification, Governance, and the Forest Stewardship Council. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press.Google Scholar
UNEP, UN Environment Programme. October 2015. The Financial System We Need: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development. Available at: http://web.unep.org/inquiry.Google Scholar
Vandenbergh, M. P. & Gilligan, J. M. 2015. ‘Beyond Gridlock’. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 40(2), 217303.Google Scholar
Vaughn, A., ‘Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Brief History’, The Guardian, 2014, available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/fossil-fuel-divestment-a-brief-history.Google Scholar
Wood, St., Abbott, K. W., Black, J., Eberlein, B. & Meidinger, E. 2015. ‘The Interactive Dynamics of Transnational Business Governance: A Challenge for Transnational Legal Theory’. Transnational Legal Theory 6(2), 333369.Google Scholar
Wood, S. & Johannson, L. 2008. ‘Six Principles for Integrating Non-Governmental Environmental Standards into Smart Regulation’. Osgoode Hall Law Journal 46, 345395.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×