Book contents
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Comparing Climate Policies
- Part II Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
- 10 European Green Deal, Climate Policies and the Energy Dilemma: Investment Protection versus Sustainable Investment?
- 11 Twin Transitions? Implementing Climate Policies in the European Union through Digital Transformation
- 12 Carbon Sequestration and Ocean Governance: Emerging Challenges between Traditional Sovereign Rights and the Need for Global Regulation
- 13 Climate Change and the Arctic: A Study of Paradoxical Linkages in Complex Systems
- 14 The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as a (Generally Lawful) Countermeasure
- 15 Corporate Self-Regulation and the Climate: The Legal Trajectory of Sustainability Due Diligence in the European Union
- 16 Extending Ecolabelling in Response to Climate Change
- 17 The Role of Judges in Implementing Climate Policies
- 18 Private Climate Litigation
- 19 The International Court of Justice Facing the Existential Threat of Climate Change
- 20 ‘The Story Is Part of the Success’
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Cases
- Bibliography
- Index
20 - ‘The Story Is Part of the Success’
Narrating Climate Change
from Part II - Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Comparing Climate Policies
- Part II Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
- 10 European Green Deal, Climate Policies and the Energy Dilemma: Investment Protection versus Sustainable Investment?
- 11 Twin Transitions? Implementing Climate Policies in the European Union through Digital Transformation
- 12 Carbon Sequestration and Ocean Governance: Emerging Challenges between Traditional Sovereign Rights and the Need for Global Regulation
- 13 Climate Change and the Arctic: A Study of Paradoxical Linkages in Complex Systems
- 14 The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as a (Generally Lawful) Countermeasure
- 15 Corporate Self-Regulation and the Climate: The Legal Trajectory of Sustainability Due Diligence in the European Union
- 16 Extending Ecolabelling in Response to Climate Change
- 17 The Role of Judges in Implementing Climate Policies
- 18 Private Climate Litigation
- 19 The International Court of Justice Facing the Existential Threat of Climate Change
- 20 ‘The Story Is Part of the Success’
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Cases
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Climate change is the most serious challenge of the Anthropocene, and so climate change communication needs to be taken suitably seriously, enriched with new ways of conceptualising, understanding and imaging the world and its transformations. The lack of understanding and seeing the gravity of the crisis has been increasingly identified as the ‘crisis of the imagination’. Over the centuries, telling stories was used to confront the unknown, encourage thinking about solutions, illuminate opportunities and give hope. Stories and storytelling allow space for interpretation and agency to think critically and, most importantly, act imaginatively. They encourage inter- and transdisciplinarity and thus novel perspectives, stressing the fact that, ultimately, discussions on climate change are discussions about who we are. In this sense, storytelling has a great potential to motivate individuals, communities and policy-makers to act on climate change.
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- Implementing Climate Change PolicyDesigning and Deploying Net Zero Carbon Governance, pp. 313 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024