The fight for a social mandate for net zero
The fight for a social mandate for net zero
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争取净零社会使命的斗争
DOI：
10.1111/newe.12283
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2022
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Ainscough J
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Ainscough J
“辩论和做出承诺是一回事。他们会采取行动吗？”随着COP26气候峰会在格拉斯哥落下帷幕，我们“净零排放日记”项目的一位小组成员简洁地表达了这种困扰气候谈判的担忧。（该日记是与英国思考、OVO、世界自然基金会和公民咨询公司合作编写的，目的是获取公民小组对英国气候行动年的实时反馈。）在我们讨论英国国内政策时，这种对国际谈判的担忧得到了回应。随着人们对气候变化的担忧达到前所未有的高度，人们正在寻找政府正在采取行动的迹象。他们所看到的并不能让他们感到安慰。我们的许多小组成员认为，虽然他们的个人行为受到越来越多的审查，但拥有最大行动权力的企业和政府却在逃避自己的责任。其中一个故事引起了我们的小组成员的共鸣，即使是那些不太关注气候问题的人，那就是鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）从会议结束后乘坐私人飞机前往伦敦一家俱乐部参加晚宴的虚伪。对政治精英日益增长的不信任并不孤立于气候政策制定1，但在我们试图为净零转型建立社会授权时，这种不信任尤其有害。
“Debating and making pledges is one thing. Are they going to act?” As the COP26 climate summit wrapped up in Glasgow, a panellist in our Net Zero Diaries project succinctly expressed this concern that dogs climate negotiations.(The Diaries, run in collaboration with Britain Thinks, OVO, WWF and Citizens Advice, were established to get real-time feedback from a panel of citizens on the UK’s year of climate action.) This concern about the international negotiations was echoed when we discussed UK domestic policy. As concern about climate change reaches an all-time high, people are looking for signs that governments are acting. They are not comforted by what they see.Many of our panellists believe that while their individual actions are being increasingly scrutinised, businesses and the government, who have the most power to act, are shirking their responsibilities. One of the stories that struck a chord with our panellists, even those less engaged in climate issues, was the hypocrisy of Boris Johnson taking a private jet back from the conference to get to a dinner at a London club. Growing distrust in political elites is not isolated to climate policy-making, 1 but it is particularly toxic as we attempt to build a social mandate for a net-zero transition.