Is There Now a Political Climate for Policy Change? Policy and Politics after the Stern Review

Authors: JORDAN, ANDREW¹; LORENZONI, IRENE²

Source: The Political Quarterly, Volume 78, Number 2, April-June 2007 , pp. 310-319(10)

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Abstract:

Climate change is fuelling a significant renaissance in the national environmental movement in the UK. The broad aim of this article is better to understand the extent to which the 2006 Stern Review on climate change marked a decisive turning point in the battle against climate change or just another missed opportunity. Labelled as the most comprehensive review of the economics of climate change ever produced, the Stern Review was commissioned by the Chancellor in the summer of 2005 as part of the G8 Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change. The main themes of and reactions to the Stern Review are analysed against the backdrop of changing domestic party politics. Then, the follow through in terms of new political and policy pronouncements is examined. It is concluded that finding a way to tie together domestic and international actions on climate change represents an enormously tricky political challenge for whoever succeeds Blair as prime minister.

Keywords: Stern Review; climate change; environmental politics

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2007.00858.x

Affiliations: 1: Reader in Environmental Politics at the University of East Anglia. 2: Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Governance at the University of East Anglia.

Publication date: 2007-04-01