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Aiming for zero
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Aiming for zero
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what makes a nation adopt a carbon neutral pledge?
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Flagg
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Julia Ann
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Julia Ann Flagg
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Thomas K
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Thomas K Rudel
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Norah A
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internal member
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Brechin
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Steven R
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Fletcher
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Robert
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Robert Fletcher
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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This dissertation research examines carbon neutral pledges made by several nation-states. Several countries have pledged to emit zero net carbon emissions in the near future in response to global climate change. First, this research uses newspaper articles to document which countries have made these pledges. These results show that nine nations have made carbon neutral pledges. Second, this research uses national-level statistics in a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to identify the common confluence of factors that is present in pledging nations. The results show that pledging nations, compared to non-pledging nations, have smaller populations, more egalitarian class structures, better governance, and more international environmental NGOs. Then, this project includes a case study on Costa Rica’s carbon neutrality pledge. The case study has three parts. First, it provides a historical account of how Costa Rica came to have the institutional profile of a country that makes a carbon neutral pledge. It uses archival research to explain how Costa Rica came to have the small size, egalitarian agricultural economy, good governance, and strong NGO presence that characterize pledging nations. Second, it provides a narrative account of the events that preceded the country’s carbon neutral commitment in February 2007. Archival research and interviews with people in government, industry, science, and civil society are used in this case study. In many ways, Costa Rica’s carbon neutral pledge is latest example of a highly ambitious political action that appeals to people’s values. The carbon neutral pledge reaffirms Costa Rica’s role as country that takes care of its people and takes care of the planet. The third and final section of the case study describes what has happened in Costa Rica since the country made the pledge. While political support for the pledge has in some respects waned since the initial commitment, officials are still committed to the carbon neutral goal and they reaffirmed the commitment in the country’s 2015 Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) ahead of the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Paris.
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Sociology
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Climatic changes
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Environmental policy
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Environmental sociology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Ph.D.
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by Julia Ann Flagg
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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