A strategy for better climate change regulation

Towards a Public Interest Orientated Regulatory Regime

Bibliographic Data

ID4329198
AuthorsIan Bartle (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume18
Issue5
Pages689-706
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644010903156984
OpenAlexW2006051794
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

The theory and analysis of regulation provides an understanding of climate change regulation and its limitations leading to the identification of political strategies to improve such regulation by orientating it more towards public interest objectives. Public interest and private interest theories of regulation are considered together with regime theory, which understands regulatory regimes as dynamic interactions of a variety of forces that can be altered by external pressure. One possible pressure is governmental action to increase regime transparency. UK and EU climate change regulation is used to consider whether increased transparency, in particular focused around a carbon price-based instrument with quantified emissions reductions, can shift the climate regime towards meeting the public interest. This runs up against difficulties of sociocultural plurality and the one-dimensional nature of the price mechanism. More successful strategy requires a price-based instrument coupled to transparent complementary policies and regulations that address sociocultural pluralities

Climate change · Economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public interest · Sociocultural evolution · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Ecology

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