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From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022
This article outlines the Conservative Party’s approach to climate change from 2015 to 2022; focusing on its governing policy record and the wider political considerations that shaped it. During this time, the Conservatives’ mixed performance reflected competing political incentives for its leaders...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684876/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00222-x |
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description | This article outlines the Conservative Party’s approach to climate change from 2015 to 2022; focusing on its governing policy record and the wider political considerations that shaped it. During this time, the Conservatives’ mixed performance reflected competing political incentives for its leaders and internal party division on the issue. A detailed exploration of Conservative climate policies allows for two broader contributions. European centre-right parties often face common strategic challenges, such as competition from the radical right, but the UK Conservative Party case study shows that responding to these challenges does not necessarily demand the abandonment of climate commitments. We also find evidence that in this period climate change embodied characteristics of both a positional and a valence issues. |
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spelling | pubmed-96848762022-11-28 From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 Carter, Neil Pearson, Mitya Br Polit Original Article This article outlines the Conservative Party’s approach to climate change from 2015 to 2022; focusing on its governing policy record and the wider political considerations that shaped it. During this time, the Conservatives’ mixed performance reflected competing political incentives for its leaders and internal party division on the issue. A detailed exploration of Conservative climate policies allows for two broader contributions. European centre-right parties often face common strategic challenges, such as competition from the radical right, but the UK Conservative Party case study shows that responding to these challenges does not necessarily demand the abandonment of climate commitments. We also find evidence that in this period climate change embodied characteristics of both a positional and a valence issues. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9684876/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00222-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Carter, Neil Pearson, Mitya From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title | From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title_full | From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title_fullStr | From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title_full_unstemmed | From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title_short | From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
title_sort | from green crap to net zero: conservative climate policy 2015–2022 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684876/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00222-x |
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