Fergus Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fergus Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fergus |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5317-6016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How can trade unions act strategically in response to decarbonisation? Union strategic capacity and automotive transition policies in Germany, Spain and the UK
Climate policy measures and the energy transition present challenges for unions beyond the traditional scope of collective bargaining and social dialogue. Union responses to policies to phase out internal combustion engines must simultaneously address climate, environmental and industrial policy issues, and influence decision-making within multinational corporations and the web of supply chain firms that participate in production. Studies point t…
Green New Deals in comparative perspective
In February 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio‐Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced into the US Congress a non‐binding resolution for a Green New Deal, with the aim to catalyze policies and programs to rapidly decarbonize the US economy while achieving wider progressive economic, social and environmental goals. This motion sparked widespread interest, in and beyond the US, in the potential for more ambitious and solidaristic climate policy…
Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words
We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate the impact of linguistic relativity on democratic debate. Peled and Bonotti’s focus is on multilingual societies, and their worry is that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share the same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue that Peled and Bonotti’s concerns about linguistic relativity are just as …
How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a "Just Transition Agreement" on Spanish Election Results
Enacting stringent climate policy has proven politically challenging, not least because of concentrated losses in fossil fuel-producing communities. "Just transition" strategies have been proposed to mitigate this distributional challenge. Yet, little is known about how such strategies affect voting behavior. Using a mixed-methods approach, we exploit a local climate policy in Spain-a "Just Transition Agreement" (JTA) to phase out coalmining, sup…
On the Merits and Limits of Nationalising the Fossil Fuel Industry
We explore the desirability of an idea that has not received the attention it deserves by political philosophers: that governments should bring privately-owned fossil fuel companies into public ownership with a view to managing their wind-down in the public interest – often simply referred to as ‘nationalising the fossil fuel industry’. We aim to make a conditional case for public ownership of fossil fuel companies. We will assume certain conditi…
How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal
Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND proposals have been criticized by high-profile advocates of carbon-centric climate policies—advocates who do not perceive socioeconomic inequalities to be significant drivers of climate change and who argue that GNDs’ wider agenda will undermine decarbonization efforts. Here, we show that socioeconomic …
COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms
Notwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as o…
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
Ecological limits: Science, justice, policy, and the good life
Recent years have witnessed a revival of scientific, political and philosophical discourse concerning the notion of ecological limits. This article provides a conceptual overview of descriptive ecological limit claims-i.e. claims that there are real, biophysical limits-and reviews work in political and social philosophy in which such claims form the basis of proposals for normative limits. The latter are classified in terms of three broad types o…
Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions: Who, what and how?
While the decarbonization of the global economy will bring immense benefits in the aggregate and to many individuals, it will also be disruptive and costly for some, at least in the short term. As these disruptions and costs have become increasingly salient in recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the climate policy community about how low-carbon transitions can be implemented justly, equitably, and politically smoothly. A key …
Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations
Should slave-owners have been compensated when slavery was abolished? Should the current owners of gas-guzzling SUVs be exempt from new climate regulations? Should workers in protected industries receive subsidized retraining when trade protections are liberalized? These questions, which pit the value of legal stability against the value of legal change, are but a few tokens of a general normative question that has been dubbed the 'problem of leg…
Engaged Climate Ethics
We are in the grip of a climate emergency. Recently, a letter signed by more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries, published in the journal BioScience, stated frankly that '[a]n immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis'.1 It is in this profoundly disturbing context, at the dawn of what may perhaps be humanity's most defining decade, that a degree of critica…
Cutting with both arms of the scissors: The economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies
Proponents of climate change mitigation face difficult choices about which types of policy instrument(s) to pursue. The literature on the comparative evaluation of climate policy instruments has focused overwhelmingly on economic analyses of instruments aimed at restricting demand for greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes) and, to some extent, on instruments that support the supply of or demand for substitute…
Anti-fossil fuel norms
Historically, climate governance initiatives and associated scholarship have all but ignored the potential for “global moral norms” to bring about changes in the political conditions for global climate mitigation. This is surprising, since global moral norms are widely employed—as both a mode of governance and an analytical framework—in other domains of global governance, from international security to human rights. However, recent national-level…
China's changing economy: Implications for Its Carbon Dioxide Emissions
As China's government unveils the country's 13th Five Year Plan for economic development (2016-2020), this article takes stock of recent changes in China's economy and energy system since the turn of the century, and looks ahead to the likely trajectory of China's emissions over the next decade. It is now clear that the period 2000-2013 was a distinct and exceptional phase in China's developmental history, during which the very high levels of GHG…
How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a "Just Transition Agreement" on Spanish Election Results
Enacting stringent climate policy has proven politically challenging, not least because of concentrated losses in fossil fuel-producing communities. "Just transition" strategies have been proposed to mitigate this distributional challenge. Yet, little is known about how such strategies affect voting behavior. Using a mixed-methods approach, we exploit a local climate policy in Spain-a "Just Transition Agreement" (JTA) to phase out coalmining, sup…
China's changing economy: Implications for Its Carbon Dioxide Emissions
As China's government unveils the country's 13th Five Year Plan for economic development (2016-2020), this article takes stock of recent changes in China's economy and energy system since the turn of the century, and looks ahead to the likely trajectory of China's emissions over the next decade. It is now clear that the period 2000-2013 was a distinct and exceptional phase in China's developmental history, during which the very high levels of GHG…
Engaged Climate Ethics
We are in the grip of a climate emergency. Recently, a letter signed by more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries, published in the journal BioScience, stated frankly that '[a]n immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis'.1 It is in this profoundly disturbing context, at the dawn of what may perhaps be humanity's most defining decade, that a degree of critica…
Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations
Should slave-owners have been compensated when slavery was abolished? Should the current owners of gas-guzzling SUVs be exempt from new climate regulations? Should workers in protected industries receive subsidized retraining when trade protections are liberalized? These questions, which pit the value of legal stability against the value of legal change, are but a few tokens of a general normative question that has been dubbed the 'problem of leg…
Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words
We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate the impact of linguistic relativity on democratic debate. Peled and Bonotti’s focus is on multilingual societies, and their worry is that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share the same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue that Peled and Bonotti’s concerns about linguistic relativity are just as …
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms
Notwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as o…
Ecological limits: Science, justice, policy, and the good life
Recent years have witnessed a revival of scientific, political and philosophical discourse concerning the notion of ecological limits. This article provides a conceptual overview of descriptive ecological limit claims-i.e. claims that there are real, biophysical limits-and reviews work in political and social philosophy in which such claims form the basis of proposals for normative limits. The latter are classified in terms of three broad types o…
Green New Deals in comparative perspective
In February 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio‐Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced into the US Congress a non‐binding resolution for a Green New Deal, with the aim to catalyze policies and programs to rapidly decarbonize the US economy while achieving wider progressive economic, social and environmental goals. This motion sparked widespread interest, in and beyond the US, in the potential for more ambitious and solidaristic climate policy…
China's changing economy: Implications for Its Carbon Dioxide Emissions
As China's government unveils the country's 13th Five Year Plan for economic development (2016-2020), this article takes stock of recent changes in China's economy and energy system since the turn of the century, and looks ahead to the likely trajectory of China's emissions over the next decade. It is now clear that the period 2000-2013 was a distinct and exceptional phase in China's developmental history, during which the very high levels of GHG…
Cutting with both arms of the scissors: The economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies
Proponents of climate change mitigation face difficult choices about which types of policy instrument(s) to pursue. The literature on the comparative evaluation of climate policy instruments has focused overwhelmingly on economic analyses of instruments aimed at restricting demand for greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes) and, to some extent, on instruments that support the supply of or demand for substitute…
Anti-fossil fuel norms
Historically, climate governance initiatives and associated scholarship have all but ignored the potential for “global moral norms” to bring about changes in the political conditions for global climate mitigation. This is surprising, since global moral norms are widely employed—as both a mode of governance and an analytical framework—in other domains of global governance, from international security to human rights. However, recent national-level…
Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions: Who, what and how?
While the decarbonization of the global economy will bring immense benefits in the aggregate and to many individuals, it will also be disruptive and costly for some, at least in the short term. As these disruptions and costs have become increasingly salient in recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the climate policy community about how low-carbon transitions can be implemented justly, equitably, and politically smoothly. A key …
Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations
Should slave-owners have been compensated when slavery was abolished? Should the current owners of gas-guzzling SUVs be exempt from new climate regulations? Should workers in protected industries receive subsidized retraining when trade protections are liberalized? These questions, which pit the value of legal stability against the value of legal change, are but a few tokens of a general normative question that has been dubbed the 'problem of leg…
Engaged Climate Ethics
We are in the grip of a climate emergency. Recently, a letter signed by more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries, published in the journal BioScience, stated frankly that '[a]n immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis'.1 It is in this profoundly disturbing context, at the dawn of what may perhaps be humanity's most defining decade, that a degree of critica…
Ecological limits: Science, justice, policy, and the good life
Recent years have witnessed a revival of scientific, political and philosophical discourse concerning the notion of ecological limits. This article provides a conceptual overview of descriptive ecological limit claims-i.e. claims that there are real, biophysical limits-and reviews work in political and social philosophy in which such claims form the basis of proposals for normative limits. The latter are classified in terms of three broad types o…
On the Merits and Limits of Nationalising the Fossil Fuel Industry
We explore the desirability of an idea that has not received the attention it deserves by political philosophers: that governments should bring privately-owned fossil fuel companies into public ownership with a view to managing their wind-down in the public interest – often simply referred to as ‘nationalising the fossil fuel industry’. We aim to make a conditional case for public ownership of fossil fuel companies. We will assume certain conditi…
How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal
Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND proposals have been criticized by high-profile advocates of carbon-centric climate policies—advocates who do not perceive socioeconomic inequalities to be significant drivers of climate change and who argue that GNDs’ wider agenda will undermine decarbonization efforts. Here, we show that socioeconomic …
COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms
Notwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as o…
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inf…
Green New Deals in comparative perspective
In February 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio‐Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced into the US Congress a non‐binding resolution for a Green New Deal, with the aim to catalyze policies and programs to rapidly decarbonize the US economy while achieving wider progressive economic, social and environmental goals. This motion sparked widespread interest, in and beyond the US, in the potential for more ambitious and solidaristic climate policy…
Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words
We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate the impact of linguistic relativity on democratic debate. Peled and Bonotti’s focus is on multilingual societies, and their worry is that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share the same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue that Peled and Bonotti’s concerns about linguistic relativity are just as …
How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a "Just Transition Agreement" on Spanish Election Results
Enacting stringent climate policy has proven politically challenging, not least because of concentrated losses in fossil fuel-producing communities. "Just transition" strategies have been proposed to mitigate this distributional challenge. Yet, little is known about how such strategies affect voting behavior. Using a mixed-methods approach, we exploit a local climate policy in Spain-a "Just Transition Agreement" (JTA) to phase out coalmining, sup…
How can trade unions act strategically in response to decarbonisation? Union strategic capacity and automotive transition policies in Germany, Spain and the UK
Climate policy measures and the energy transition present challenges for unions beyond the traditional scope of collective bargaining and social dialogue. Union responses to policies to phase out internal combustion engines must simultaneously address climate, environmental and industrial policy issues, and influence decision-making within multinational corporations and the web of supply chain firms that participate in production. Studies point t…
Political science (10 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works)