GCC 3031/5031: The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change

Introduction -- The social construction of climate change -- Individualization of responsibility and the politics of behaviour change -- Rise of the grassroots -- People like me : the role of agency in voluntary climate change action -- Social transitions from the local to the global -- Future pathways for community action on climate change.

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation. This book creatively adapts John Wesley's theological method by using scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to explore the themes of creation and justice in the context of the earth's changing climate. By consciously employing these four sources of authority, readers discover a unique way to reflect on planetary warming theologically and to discern a faithful response. The book's premise is that love of God and neighbor in this time of climate change requires us to honor creation and establish justice for our human family, for future generations, and for all creation. From the introduction: As we entrust our lives to God, we are enabled to join with others in the movement for climate justice and to carry a unified message of healing, love, and solidarity as we live into God's future, offering hope in the midst of the climate crisis that 'another world is possible.' God is ever present, always with us. Love never ends.

This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions.

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change marked a reset of global climate policy, but was jeopardised by the partisan nature of the debates. In this unique overview, Aynsley Kellow suggests that global policy on climate change should have started with the Paris Agreement, and that almost a quarter of a century has been wasted following the wrong path.Looking critically at the interplay between interests, science, and global norms, Negotiating Climate Change shows how the initial selection of the wrong 'metapolicy' hindered the development of global climate policy. Examining key debates, and the problems which arose from them, Kellow exposes the failings of the Kyoto Process and the subsequent issues raised in the negotiations culminating in the Paris Agreement.Providing analysis of the failings of past decades as well as looking towards the future of climate policy, this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of global environmental politics, environmental governance and international relations, as well as for policy workers in agencies involved in climate policy.

Climate action in a globalizing world : an introduction / Håkan Thörn, Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd and Åsa Wettergren -- Climate justice, equity and movement mobilization / Carl Cassegård and Håkan Thörn -- Governing dissent in a state of emergency : police and protester interactions in the global space of the COP / Mattias Wahlström and Joost de Moor -- Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere : global solidarity and the regime of rationality / Jochen Kleres and Åsa Wettergren -- COP as a global public sphere : news media frames, movement frames and media standing of climate movement actors / Linda Soneryd, Carl Cassegård -- Learning from defeat : the strategic reorientation of the U.S. climate movement / Jennifer Hadden -- Between government and grassroots : challenges to institutionalization in the Japanese environmental movement / Carl Cassegård -- Denmark : from a green economy toward a new eco-radicalism? / Åsa Wettergren and Linda Soneryd -- The Swedish environmental movement : politics of responsibility between climate justice and local transition / Håkan Thörn and Sebastian Svenberg -- Hegemony and environmentalist strategy : global governance, movement mobilization, and climate justice / Håkan Thörn, Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd and Åsa Wettergren.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together twelve chapters featuring the work of over thirty authors from around the globe. The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures. The twelve chapters focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, demonstrating both individual and collective experiences of climate change and struggles for achieving climate justice from the Majority World. This includes activism, resistance, and social movement organising in India and Brazil, lived experiences and understandings of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa, consequences of and responses to disasters in Mozambique and Puerto Rico, and contested accounts, narratives, and futures in the Maldives and Pakistan, among other topics. By adopting a decolonial lens, this book provides rich empirical content, insightful comparisons, and novel conceptual interventions. It foregrounds climate justice from an intersectional perspective and contributes to the ongoing efforts by scholars and activists to address epistemic injustice in climate change research, policy and practice.