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Climate change and the oil industry

Common problem, varying strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Jon Skjaerseth,Tora Skodvin

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Climate change and the oil industry

Common problem, varying strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Jon Skjaerseth,Tora Skodvin

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at an international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome. The analytical approach developed by the authors is also applicable to other areas of environmental degradation where multinational corporations play a central role. The book is invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners interested in national and international environmental politics and business environmental management.

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Manchester University Press

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184779579X

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International Regimes and Norway's Environmental Policy

Crossfire and Coherence

By: Jon Birger Skjeth

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International Regimes and Norway's Environmental Policy

Crossfire and Coherence

By: Jon Birger Skjeth

Since the former Norwegian prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, led the World Commission on Sustainable Development, Norway has played an important role in international environmental co-operation. This volume looks at how this one state engaged international regimes in order to pursue its own national goals in the following issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, ozone depletion, air pollution, marine pollution and whaling. In doing so, it offers an innovative new approach to the study of international regime effectiveness and on linkages or interactions between international regimes.

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Routledge

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1351155385

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9781351155380

Corporate Responses to EU Emissions Trading

Resistance, Innovation or Responsibility?

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Per Ove Eikeland

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Corporate Responses to EU Emissions Trading

Resistance, Innovation or Responsibility?

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Per Ove Eikeland

The European Union (EU) aims to put Europe on track toward a low-carbon economy. In this striking challenge, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has been singled out as the Union’s key climate policy instrument, ultimately aimed as a model for a global carbon market. The learning effect of the EU ETS could thus be tremendous. This study explores how the EU ETS actually works on the ground, affecting corporate climate strategies. It covers general sector responses as well as systematic comparative studies of companies across the sectors. The latter enables improved understanding of causal effects and the role of interaction between different policy instruments and other factors that impact corporate climate strategies. The study explores a broad set of mechanisms at play potentially linking the EU ETS to company climate strategies. These include how corporate norms of responsibility are affected by the EU ETS and how economic incentives provide opportunities for innovation. The book’s main contribution lies in its systematic examination of corporate responses to the EU ETS from a broad empirical and analytical social science perspective covering companies in all main EU ETS sectors: electric power, oil, cement, steel and pulp and paper.

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131715942X

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9781317159421

Environmental Regime Effectiveness

Confronting Theory with Evidence

By: Edward L. Miles,Steinar Andresen,Elaine M. Carlin,Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Arild Underdal

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Environmental Regime Effectiveness

Confronting Theory with Evidence

By: Edward L. Miles,Steinar Andresen,Elaine M. Carlin,Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Arild Underdal

This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the collective model of the book predicts. The effective regimes examined involve the End of Dumping in the North Sea, Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific, and the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion. Mixed-performance regimes include Land-Based Pollution Control in the North Sea, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Satellite Telecommunication, and Management of High Seas Salmon in the North Pacific. Ineffective regimes are the Mediterranean Action Plan, Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea, International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Whaling Commission, and the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

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MIT Press

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0262263726

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9780262263726

The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation

The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan

By: Per Ove Eikeland,Jon Birger Skjærseth

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The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation

The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan

By: Per Ove Eikeland,Jon Birger Skjærseth

Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied. This book clearly reveals the promises and pitfalls of European efforts in this field – recommended reading!"—Sebastian Oberthür, Institute for European Studies, Belguim "This compact volume effectively addresses a surprisingly unknown territory in an otherwise well-explored landscape. In doing so, it will provide a useful resource to all who follow the uneven progress of climate and energy policy in the EU context, as well as those who are interested in policies to stimulate technology development more broadly." —Tim Rayner, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) was aimed at accelerating low-carbon innovation by raising, coordinating and concentrating resources to certain low-carbon technologies. At the ten-year anniversary of the SET-Plan, this book examines why it was adopted and what it has achieved. Using an analytical framework developed to capture the ‘politics of innovation’, the authors trace the history of the Plan from initiation to implementation, and then explain its development as seen from the perspectives of the EU institutions, member-states, industry, the research community and international technology markets. The concluding chapter discusses lessons and prospects for European low-carbon innovation towards 2030 and beyond. This new work fills a void in the literature on EU climate and energy policies, and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in these fields.

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Springer

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3030179133

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North Sea Cooperation

Linking International and Domestic Pollution Control

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth

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North Sea Cooperation

Linking International and Domestic Pollution Control

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth

This is the first book to examine the link between international and national environmental institutions. It examines this link in depth by analyzing the making and implementation of North Sea pollution commitments. The author develops two models generating different propositions aimed at distinguishing the significance of institutions from other explanatory factors. The key to understanding the success of international institutions in the North Sea cooperation lies in the balancing of hard legally binding and soft politically acting institutions in the same issue-area. He goes on to show the extent to which different national institutions in Norway, the Netherlands and the UK are suited to implement the North Sea commitments.

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Manchester University Press

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0719058090

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9780719058097

EU Emissions Trading

Initiation, Decision-making and Implementation

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Jørgen Wettestad

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EU Emissions Trading

Initiation, Decision-making and Implementation

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Jørgen Wettestad

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has been characterized as one of the most far-reaching and radical environmental policies for many years. Given the EU's earlier resistance to this market-based and US-flavoured programme, the development and implementation of the EU ETS has been rapid. This novel approach to environmental regulation has the potential to affect not only greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, but also international strategies for climate change protection. This book investigates the origins, evolution and consequences of the EU ETS and offers significant contributions to the literatures on climate policy and EU policy making.

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1317140346

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Wind Power Policies and Diffusion in the Nordic Countries

Comparative Patterns

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Teis Hansen,Jakob Donner-Amnell,Jens Hanson,Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg,Helle Ørsted Nielsen,Birgitte Nygaard,Markus Steen

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Wind Power Policies and Diffusion in the Nordic Countries

Comparative Patterns

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Teis Hansen,Jakob Donner-Amnell,Jens Hanson,Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg,Helle Ørsted Nielsen,Birgitte Nygaard,Markus Steen

This book focuses specifically on policy mixes and wind power diffusion in four Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Although these Nordic welfare states have much in common, they have adopted different wind power policies and experienced dissimilar diffusion trajectories. Understanding these patterns across the Nordic countries is the central puzzle that this book investigates. Empirically, this book provides a first-of-its-kind comparative study of wind power policies in the Nordic countries. Analytically, the authors contribute to the transition policy mix literature, which remains largely insensitive to political feasibility. This book will be of interest to researchers and students as well as private and public decision makers looking for tools to enable the energy transition.

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Springer Nature

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3031341864

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9783031341861

Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies

Decision-making, Implementation and Reform

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Per Ove Eikeland,Lars H. Gulbrandsen,Torbjørg Jevnaker

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Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies

Decision-making, Implementation and Reform

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Per Ove Eikeland,Lars H. Gulbrandsen,Torbjørg Jevnaker

Based on an innovative theoretical framework combining theories of EU policy making, negotiation and implementation, this comprehensive book examines EU climate and energy policies from the early 1990s until the adoption of new policies for 2030. The authors investigate how the linking of climate and energy concerns in policy packages has facilitated agreement among EU leaders with very different policy ambitions. Employing in-depth studies from a diverse range of energy-economic countries, the book also explores the impact of the implementation of policies on the climate and energy policy framework and the Energy Union initiative. Social scientists and researchers in EU climate and energy policies will find the new empirical data and theoretical approach useful to their work. Students of the social sciences and politics will also benefit from the accessible overview of EU climate and energy policy development. This book will also be of interest to private and public decision-makers looking for explanations for the causes and consequences of EU climate and energy policy development.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1785361287

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problems, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Tora Skodvin

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problems, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Tora Skodvin

Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume, available for the first time in paperback, presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at an international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome. The analytical approach developed by the authors is also applicable to other areas of environmental degradation where multinational corporations play a central role. The book is invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners interested in national and international environmental politics and business environmental management.

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0719065593

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problem, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Tora Skodvin

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problem, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Tora Skodvin

Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at an international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome. The analytical approach developed by the authors is also applicable to other areas of environmental degradation where multinational corporations play a central role. The book is invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners interested in national and international environmental politics and business environmental management.

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Climate change and the oil industry

Common problem, varying strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjaerseth,Jon Skjaerseth,Tora Skodvin

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problem, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Tora Skodvin

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry

Common Problem, Varying Strategies

By: Jon Birger Skjærseth,Tora Skodvin

Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at an international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome. The analytical approach developed by the authors is also applicable to other areas of environmental degradation where multinational corporations play a central role. The book is invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners interested in national and international environmental politics and business environmental management"--Publisher's description.

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