POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Carbon Bubble, Consumerism, Gateway Drug Theory
Private Actors and Climate Change - Corporations
● Effectiveness?
○ How should we measure it?
○ Do outcomes match NGO suggestions?
○ Normalization and coalitions?
● Corporate actors and climate politics
○ Corporations
■ Private actors that have a profit driven motive
■ Diverse like NGOs
● Scope (local, national, global)
○ Impacts the company’s position on climate change
● Focus (single sector/product or conglomerate)
○ Single sector: insurance companies, automobile
companies, etc.
○ Conglomerate: Companies that have areas in food sectors,
chemical sectors, etc.
○ Corporate action on climate change
■ Types of action
● Business practices
○ Low carbon products
○ Greening production
○ Some companies see climate change as an opportunity
■ Some companies think consumers want low carbon
products
■ Saving money because they’re doing this to
enhance efficiency
■ Reacting to what they expect government actions
to see. See acting on climate change as an
opportunity because they see regulations coming
down, so some companies such as IKEA want to
be ahead of this
● Supply chain management
○ Try to measure the emissions in whole production process
that go into the products that you make
■ Carbon trust
● Manages supply chain
○ If you do this, you might find
efficiencies in lowering the cost
○ Been driven by environmental NGOs
● Political practices: Agenda setting/lobbying
○ Attempt to influence what governments do in terms of
making rules for corporations and individuals
● Corporate governance
○ CEOs
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Document Summary
Private actors that have a profit driven motive. Impacts the company"s position on climate change. Single sector: insurance companies, automobile companies, etc. Conglomerate: companies that have areas in food sectors, chemical sectors, etc. Some companies see climate change as an opportunity. Some companies think consumers want low carbon products. Saving money because they"re doing this to enhance efficiency. Reacting to what they expect government actions to see. See acting on climate change as an opportunity because they see regulations coming down, so some companies such as ikea want to be ahead of this. Try to measure the emissions in whole production process that go into the products that you make. If you do this, you might find efficiencies in lowering the cost. Attempt to influence what governments do in terms of making rules for corporations and individuals. Determines what type of action the corporations are going. Thinking like a political scientist to take.
