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Title |
: The politics of climate change policy design in Korea |
Date |
: 2015. 10 |
Journal title |
: Environmental Politics |
Author |
: Eun-sung Kim |
Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
Abstract |
: The climate change policy design of the Lee Myung-bak administration was the outcome of interest group politics around the greenhouse gas and energy target management scheme, carbon taxes, and the emission-trading scheme. Using qualitative methods, this research examines powerful stakeholders and their interests at play in Korea¡¯s climate change policymaking processes. It also links the political economy of climate change policy to the legacy of the ¡®developmental state¡¯ and examines environmental developmentalism in the design of the three climate change policies. The Lee administration strongly promoted environmental developmentalism, which created a new growth engine in an environmental field, while bolstering manufacturing businesses and excluding the views of environmental non-governmental organisations from the target-management and the emission-trading schemes. The Lee administration also sought to facilitate pro-business measures such as low taxes, which led it to reject a carbon tax. Therefore, environmental developmentalism was central to the politics of the Lee administration¡¯s climate change policy design.
Keywords: Emission-trading scheme; carbon tax; target management scheme; developmental state; environmental developmentalism; green growth
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