气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Extraction and development: fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia

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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2020.1719810
	Extraction and development: fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia
	Strambo C.; González Espinosa A.C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1469-3062
卷号	20 期号:8
英文摘要	Colombia, a country that is very vulnerable to climate change, has played a positive role in international climate negotiations. Paradoxically, Colombia is also the sixth largest coal exporter globally, and its government has adopted policies to further increase the country’s production of coal and other fossil fuels. This article explores to what extent the national government reproduces a powerful paradigm–namely, that fossil fuel extraction is necessary for development–and how this resonates at the sub-national level. We find that the government’s narrative has evolved to accommodate Colombia’s changing national circumstances and public criticism. Though counternarratives exist, they have struggled to propose credible nationwide alternatives to extractive-based development, thus reinforcing the belief that extraction-based development is unavoidable. We describe how government narratives constitute an obstacle to both supply-side policies to restrict fossil fuel development and to transitional assistance policies to adjust to shifts in the global coal market. Key policy insights The view that fossil fuel extraction is necessary for development is a powerful barrier to supply–side climate policy. This view also hinders the formulation of transitional assistance policy. Empirical evidence that fossil fuel extraction seldom leads to equitable development is not enough to overcome this view. Narratives on fossil fuel-based development continuously adjust to prevailing economic development paradigms and contemporary development challenges. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	coal; Colombia; extractivism; narratives; transition
来源期刊	CLIMATE POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/183726
作者单位	Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Strambo C.,González Espinosa A.C.. Extraction and development: fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia[J],2020,20(8).
APA	Strambo C.,&González Espinosa A.C..(2020).Extraction and development: fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia.CLIMATE POLICY,20(8).
MLA	Strambo C.,et al."Extraction and development: fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia".CLIMATE POLICY 20.8(2020).