Framing Climate Change in the EU and US After the Paris Agreement

Frank Wendler is Senior Faculty Member (Privatdozent) at the Department of Social Sciences and Lead Researcher for the project 'How Ideas Frame the Politics of Climate Change', funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and based at the Center for Sustainable Society (CSS) of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Political responses to climate change are shaped by beliefs and ideas. How does discourse on climate action and its contestation affect policy-making? Addressing this question, the book compares EU and US policy-making since the Paris Agreement and its framing by key political institutions. The empirical part analyses the structure, linkages and contestation of frames to evaluate the contrasting spaces of climate politics in both systems. As the first direct comparison of EU and US climate governance since the Paris Agreement, the book advances current research on the politics of climate change, the politicization of multi-level governance and the role of discourse for policy change.

Chapter 1. Introduction: How ideas and discourse frame the politics of climate change. - Chapter 2. Theoretical framework: Framing, issue dimensions and political space. - Chapter 3. Climate change policy in the EU: From the Paris Agreement to the Green Deal. - Chapter 4. US Climate Politics since the Paris Agreement. - Chapter 5. Comparative analysis: Framing climate change in the EU and the US. - Chapter 6. Conclusion: Framing climate change after the Paris Agreement.