European Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China : : Embassy Narratives and Coalitions.

• Superior document: Diplomatic Studies
• Author: Buchmann, Katrin.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Diplomatic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 pages)

"Buchmann analyses the work of UK, German, Danish and Swedish embassies in the USA and China on climate change in the late 2000s and early 2010s. She relates which coalitions and narratives embassies sought to develop to convince China and the United States that a more progressive climate policy was possible, to achieve gains supporting an agreement under the UNFCCC. This book shows that a key interpretation of climate diplomacy was selling/trade: Europe selling technology "solutions" to solve climate change. In this narrative, Europe has already done what needs to be done and outsourcing of production to China e.g. is ignored. In the USA, embassies entered coalitions with states, faith groups and the military, arguing that a more progressive climate policy was mandated by either God or security concerns. State politicians, including Democrats, often actually didn't implement any climate policies. Any gains were reversed through climate denial lobbying funded by corporations. Embassies did not address this"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 "God, Guns and Green Growth: Narratives and Coalitions in European embassies' Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China" -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Climate Change and Diplomacy -- 1 Globalisation in Diplomacy Studies: New Actors, New Issues -- 1.1 "Diplomacy Means Business": Multinational Corporations and Diplomats -- 1.2 Paradiplomacy &amp -- Public Diplomacy -- 1.3 Domestic Parliaments and Environmental Negotiations -- 1.4 European Diplomacy -- 2 Evaluation of Diplomacy Effectiveness -- 3 Critical Perspectives on Climate Diplomacy -- 3.1 The Epistemic Community of Diplomats Construct Meanings -- 3.2 Gramscian Views of Hegemony - and the Role of Diplomacy in This Hegemony -- 3.3 Diplomats in Advanced Liberal Governmentality -- 3.4 Depoliticisation through Signifiers - Laclau and Mouffe -- 3.5 Implications for Climate Diplomacy: "Everything Can Stay as Before" -- 3.5.1 Corporations Key to Explain International Climate Regime We Have -- 3.5.2 Green Capitalism and Simulative Politics -- 3.5.3 Ecological Modernisation and Greentech -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Ministerial Structures Impacting Climate Diplomacy -- 1 Germany -- 1.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Auswärtiges Amt (AA) -- 1.2 Other Ministries: Ministry of Environment (BMU) and Trade Ministry (BMWi) -- 1.3 German-British Climate Diplomatic Collaboration -- 2 United Kingdom -- 2.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) - Part I: 1990s and Early 2000s -- 2.2 Other Ministries: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) -- 2.3 Environmental Diplomacy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Part II: Late 2000s -- 2.4 Special Programme Funds -- 3 Denmark.

3.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Udenrigsministeriet -- 3.2 Denmark's Climate and Energy Ministry and CoP15 -- 4 Sweden -- 4.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Utrikesdepartementet -- 4.2 Other Ministries: Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy &amp -- Communications and Agencies -- Notes -- Chapter 4 European Climate Diplomacy in China -- 1 China's Climate Policy and the Overall Focus of European Embassies -- 2 Partners and Targets of the Embassies -- 2.1 National Development &amp -- Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) -- 2.2 Government Think Tanks -- 2.3 NGOs -- 2.4 Embassies vs. Development Agencies: China Council for International Cooperation on Environment &amp -- Development (CCICED) -- 3 European Embassies and Their Diplomatic Strategies -- 4 Sweden -- 4.1 Discursive Strategy: Eco-Cities -- 4.2 Swedish Eco-City Projects in China: Effectiveness of the Swedish Example Narrative -- 4.3 Conclusion: Sweden -- 5 Denmark -- 5.1 The Danish 'Example' and Danish Greentech -- 5.2 Danish Green China Initiative -- 5.3 China National Renewable Energy Centre (CNREC) -- 5.4 CoP15 Preparation by the Danish Embassy -- 5.5 Conclusion: Denmark -- 6 Germany -- 6.1 Consulates and Cars -- 6.2 "DuC" -- 6.3 Conclusion: Germany -- 7 United Kingdom -- 7.1 Strategic Programme Fund Projects -- 7.2 Discursive Strategy: Low Carbon Economy -- 7.3 Low Carbon? The British Example -- 7.4 UKTI &amp -- UK Greentech Promotion -- 7.5 Conclusion: UK -- 8 European Embassies Cooperation and EU Coherence in Beijing -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 USA Federal Level -- 1 Key Actors in American Federal Climate Governance and the Embassies -- 1.1 Non-State Actors -- 1.2 State Department -- 1.3 Department of Energy -- 1.4 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- 1.5 White House.

2 Climate Diplomacy with Non-State Actors at the Federal Level -- 3 Effectiveness of European Embassies' Climate Diplomacy with Congress -- 3.1 Example Narratives: USA -- 4 Climate Study Visits for Congressmembers -- 5 Framing for Republicans by European Embassies -- 5.1 Discursive Strategy: Climate Security -- 5.2 Discursive Strategy: Energy Independence or "The Other c-word" -- 5.3 Discursive Strategy: Creationcare -- 5.4 Discursive Strategy: Green Growth -- 6 "Alternative Facts I": Failure of the Embassy - Obama Green Jobs Storyline -- 7 US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) -- 8 "Alternative Facts II": ClimateGate -- 9 EU Coherence in the USA -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Subnational Climate Diplomacy in the USA -- 1 American States' Foreign Policy -- 2 Sweden, Denmark and German Länder -- 3 German Subnational Climate Diplomacy: Transatlantic Climate Bridge -- 4 UK Subnational Climate Diplomacy -- 4.1 Evolution of British Subnational Climate Diplomacy -- 4.2 Green Growth at State-Level -- 4.3 Climate Diplomacy with Texas -- 4.4 Climate Diplomacy with California -- 4.5 Climate Diplomacy with Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin &amp -- Michigan -- 5 Effectiveness and Aftermath -- 6 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 What Happened Next - The Journey Since -- 1 Plus ça change: Embassies, Ministries and CoP Preparation -- 2 Plus ça change: Offers for CoP21's Paris Agreement -- 3 Plus ça change: American Domestic Climate Policy and Declining Diplomacy -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Conclusion - Diplomacy under Hegemony: Example Narratives -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index.