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TY - JOUR
T1 - How UK climate change policy has been made sustainable
AU - Campbell, David
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Social and Legal Studies, 24 (3), 2015, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Social and Legal Studies page: http://sls.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
PY - 2015/9
Y1 - 2015/9
N2 - UK climate change policy is based on the advice of the Committee on Climate Change established under the Climate Change Act 2008. This Committee is an independent, expert agency established as part of the reconceiving of the regulatory state as a response to the neo-liberal critique of older forms of regulation. But the quality of the advice given in the Committee’s recent Fourth Carbon Budget Review is so tendentious as to barely be able to be described as advice at all. This grave shortcoming poses the most serious questions for contemporary constitutional and regulatory processes.
AB - UK climate change policy is based on the advice of the Committee on Climate Change established under the Climate Change Act 2008. This Committee is an independent, expert agency established as part of the reconceiving of the regulatory state as a response to the neo-liberal critique of older forms of regulation. But the quality of the advice given in the Committee’s recent Fourth Carbon Budget Review is so tendentious as to barely be able to be described as advice at all. This grave shortcoming poses the most serious questions for contemporary constitutional and regulatory processes.
KW - Climate change
KW - Committee on Climate Change
KW - public policy formulation
KW - regulation
KW - government failure
U2 - 10.1177/0964663915589218
DO - 10.1177/0964663915589218
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 399
EP - 418
JO - Social and Legal Studies
JF - Social and Legal Studies
SN - 0964-6639
IS - 3
ER -