Abstract
In the 21st century, the UN Paris Climate Agreement requires immediate de-carbonization and greenhouse gas emission reductions in strategic national and global agriculture (food) and automotive (transportation) industry sectors. The achievement of the UN Climate Agreement goals for sustainable low-carbon societies and economies requires national government policy and industry cooperation to accelerate and govern the transition of strategic agriculture and automotive manufacturing sectors. The goal of this global climate policy research paper is to examine the central role of transatlantic government policy and strategic industry cooperation in the de-carbonization, renewable transition and sustainability of national agriculture and automotive manufacturing industry sectors. The conference paper uses a comparative policy case study methodology for the following national government and industry cooperation case studies in the transatlantic region; The United States, United Kingdom and Germany/European Union. The national case studies are examined in following government climate and industrial policy contexts; American Recovery/ Climate Plans, the UK Climate/Green Recovery Plan and German-EU Climate /European Green Deal Plan. Contributions; The paper contributes to the following academic and applied policy practice fields; global multi-level governance of climate change, transatlantic government and business cooperation in science based international organizations/UN global scientific/technical standard bodies, Results and Conclusions: The comparative transatlantic policy case studies reveal the need for strong normative agreement, moral leadership and inter-disciplinary climate science cooperation. Transatlantic government and industry climate policy cooperation must specifically target strategic agriculture and automotive manufacturing industry sectors to achieve core goals of the UN Paris agreement.
Presenters
Reba Anne CarruthAdjunct Professor, International Relations - Public Policy, Georgetown University, Maryland, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Human Impacts and Responsibility
KEYWORDS
Transatlantic, Government, Industry, Agriculture, Automotive, Circular Manufacturing Decarbonization, Sustainable, UN
