Scientific article
Published:
Norway’s Climate Club Quandary
Summary:
Norway’s international climate policy has always aimed at building a unitary global climate regime. However, the Paris Agreement reflects and accelerates the fragmentation of the climate regime and has been accompanied by the emergence of a myriad of new climate initiatives between countries. This article highlights three trends that characterize the emerging climate regime: a shift from climate to green industrial policy; rising tension between climate and trade policy and pressure to merge climate and petroleum policy. We illustrate how climate clubs both create new rules within the climate regime and are formed in response to such rules. Navigating this new international landscape will be a central challenge for Norwegian climate policy moving forward. Norway’s climate club quandary in this context implies choices between different political strategies and competing interests and with possible consequences for what type of climate regime Norway will contribute to. The climate club quandary is both related whom Norway seeks to collaborate with and the formalization of such collaboration, but also the consequences of collaborating with some countries and not with others.
- Published year: 2022
- Full version: https://tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/intpol/article/view/3765
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23865/intpol.v80.3765
- Publisher: Cappelen Damm Akademisk
- Page count: 13
- Language: Norwegian
- Journal: Internasjonal Politikk - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for internasjonale studier
Written by
Ida Dokk Smith
Senior Research Fellow