Titlebook: Climate Innovation; Liberal Capitalism a Neil E. Harrison (Executive Director),John Mikler Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Climate Policy, Energy Technologies, and the American Developmental Statetion technology, to biotech, medical engineering, semiconductors, software, telecommunications, and defense. While this record has long been acknowledged and celebrated, attempts to understand the roots of this success have often been confounded by misguided conceptions about the institutions respon

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Colorado’s New Energy Economy: Ecological Modernization, American-Style?most ambitious and far reaching attempts at reorganizing the economy of a state in recent times. In this chapter we argue that the NEE was an attempt at ecological modernization (EM), rather than a set of ad hoc initiatives, because it sought to fuse innovation, economic and environmental goals thro

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The Role of Corporate Scientists and Institutional Context: Corporate Responses to Climate Change in also controlling the technological and organizational resources which, if applied appropriately, could play a major role in reducing GHG emissions. The science, technology and society (STS) literature examines the interface between science and policy and suggests that scientific knowledge and socia

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Corporate Investment in Climate Innovationimate change mitigation depends on corporate decision-making (Newell and Paterson, 2010). What incentives would persuade firms to generate the necessary incremental and radical technologies? The answer is usually along the lines of ‘getting the prices right’ by taxing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions;

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US Labour Unions and Climate Change: Technological Innovations and Institutional Influencesety. Without their support effective climate policy will be very difficult to reach and, even more so, to implement. Yet, there remain deep differences amongst unions on climate policy ranging from opposition to strong support. That variability is to be expected given the variable position of unions

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The Influence of US Neoliberalism on International Climate Change Policyly 20 percent of yearly global emissions (US EPA, 2013). In per capita terms, US GHG emissions rank amongst the highest of the developed countries (Garnaut, 2008: 55). It has long been clear that effective international governance for reducing GHG emissions will necessarily require significant US pa

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Varieties of Capitalism and US versus Chinese Corporations’ Climate Change Strategies are industrializing are now its major contributors. This is why authors like Giddens (2011) have noted that casting the problem of climate change as fundamentally ‘global’ in nature abstracts from the geopolitical realities. The US and China in particular stand out for their contribution to the pro

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Conclusion: A Way Forward human activities that have resulted in too many greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. Climate change should, if possible, be mitigated. Secondly, we assume that the countries that are the major emitters of GHGs will continue to organize their political economies as som

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