Aiming for Net Zero: Costa Rica's Green Elite and the Struggle to Mitigate Climate Change

Flagg, Julia A.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-01
  • 售價: $1,570
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,492
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 240
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 026254976X
  • ISBN-13: 9780262549769
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商品描述

How Costa Rican leaders adopted policies to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, and what other countries can learn from their actions.

As atmospheric greenhouse gases continue their steep ascent, the world has never been more in need of policies designed to reduce emissions. Among those few nations that have committed to ambitious emission reduction plans is the small Central American country of Costa Rica, whose pioneering policies include a Payments for Environmental Services program, a carbon neutrality pledge, and a goal of decarbonizing the economy. In this book, Aiming for Net Zero, Julia Flagg explores why Costa Rican leaders have adopted more climate mitigation policies than leaders of other nations and how these leaders have introduced and developed these policies.

Drawing on archival evidence and interviews conducted between 2013 and 2021 with three dozen people who have contributed to climate policy in Costa Rica, Flagg tells the story of Costa Rica's climate mitigation policy development. Costa Rica's historically egalitarian class structure and interconnected, green-minded urban elite, she writes, prioritized investment in public welfare as the means to enhance the national level of development, leading to the advancement of climate mitigation policies during four historical moments: the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, the mid-2000s, and the late 2010s.

Offering many lessons for other nations aiming to curtail planet-warming emissions, Aiming for Net Zero shows how investments in the public good enhance social development--which, ultimately, allows state planners to pursue ambitious climate mitigation policies.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

如何哥斯大黎加的領導者採取政策以減少導致全球暖化的溫室氣體排放,以及其他國家可以從他們的行動中學到什麼。

隨著大氣中的溫室氣體持續急劇上升,世界對於旨在減少排放的政策的需求從未如此迫切。在那些承諾採取雄心勃勃的減排計畫的少數國家中,小型中美洲國家哥斯大黎加脫穎而出,其開創性的政策包括環境服務支付計畫、碳中和承諾以及去碳化經濟的目標。在這本書《瞄準淨零》中,Julia Flagg 探討了為什麼哥斯大黎加的領導者採取了比其他國家領導者更多的氣候緩解政策,以及這些領導者是如何引入和發展這些政策的。

Flagg 根據2013年至2021年間對三十多位為哥斯大黎加氣候政策做出貢獻的人的訪談和檔案證據,講述了哥斯大黎加氣候緩解政策的發展歷程。她寫道,哥斯大黎加歷史上平等的階級結構和相互聯繫的綠色思維城市精英,將公共福利的投資視為提升國家發展水平的手段,這導致了在四個歷史時刻(1980年代末、1990年代中期、2000年代中期和2010年代末)氣候緩解政策的推進。

《瞄準淨零》為其他希望減少導致全球暖化排放的國家提供了許多教訓,顯示了對公共利益的投資如何促進社會發展——最終,這使得國家規劃者能夠追求雄心勃勃的氣候緩解政策。

作者簡介

Julia A. Flagg is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Julia A. Flagg 是康乃狄克學院社會學與環境研究的副教授。