Speaker : Charlotte Burns, Professor in the Department of Politics and International relations at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include EU decision making and institutions, especially the European Parliament, EU environmental policy and governance, and since 2016 she has worked extensively upon the implications of Brexit for UK and EU environmental policy. She has been a leader for the UK in A Changing Europe Programme, she is co-founder and co-chair of the Brexit and Environment Network which brings together academics and stakeholders to deliver evidence and advice on environmental policy and politics in the UK. She has given evidence on the subject to a range of parliamentary bodies. She also co-author of leading EU textbook Politics in the European Union. She currently acts as the Director of the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership, which provides training for Post-graduate researchers across seven institutions.
Presentation:
Muppet or environmental superpower? The United Kingdom and climate change post-Brexit.
The UK Government has sought to assuage concerns about the environmental implications of Brexit by claiming that outside the EU it will be free to be an ‘environmental superpower’ that offers leadership on the international stage. A successful outcome at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting in Glasgow is a key part of Prime Minister’s Johnson’s government’s ‘Global Britain’ strategy that seeks to portray the UK as an important international player in its own right. Johnson has however faced a challenging run in to COP26. Whilst exhorting states to ignore Kermit the Frog’s claim that ‘it is not easy being green’ he has nevertheless had to scale back ambition for the COP to keeping ‘1.5 degrees alive’ as one of the key goals. He has faced the refusal of Chinese Premier, Xi Jinping, to attend the meeting in person, and the long-term pledges from China, which is central to the successful delivery of global cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to keep temperature increases limited to 1.5 degrees, have been greeted with disappointment by the wider political community. At the time of writing it seems likely that the COP’s outcomes will be limited, and the UK government’s claim to be a ‘environmental superpower’ potentially little more than hot air. COP26 provides the perfect opportunity to establish what the exercise of effective environmental leadership for the UK might look like, to evaluate how it has done and to identify the reasons for successes and failures.
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