The Aspirational Politics of Global Net Zero
グローバル・ネットゼロの願望的政治 (AI 翻訳)
Ian Higham
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
本稿は、ネットゼロ目標を国際規範ではなく「願望（aspiration）」として捉えるべきだと論じる。この概念化により、気候ガバナンスの課題や基準・執行メカニズムの有効性への期待がより正確に設定できると主張。また、国際政治における願望理論の既存予想を覆し、目標達成の失敗に対する社会的制裁がないという想定が、非難の転嫁を促進する可能性を指摘する。
English
This paper argues that the global net zero goal should be understood as an aspiration rather than an international norm. This conceptualization clarifies climate governance challenges and sets more accurate expectations for enforcement. The author challenges existing aspiration theory by showing that lack of social consequences for failure can enable blame shifting.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本のネットゼロ目標（2050年）も国際的な願望の一部である。本稿は、目標設定が責任転嫁に利用される可能性を示し、日本の政策プロセスにおけるアカウンタビリティの重要性を示唆する。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to theoretical debates on climate governance by reinterpreting net zero as an aspiration. It informs global discussions on the effectiveness of non-binding commitments and enforcement mechanisms, relevant for ISSB, TCFD, and the Paris Agreement.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Theorists of international norms and climate governance will find the distinction between norms and aspirations useful.
🏛政策担当者:Regulators should consider how aspirational goals may shift blame and reduce accountability.
📄 Abstract（原文）
“Global net zero” refers to a scientifically informed target of balancing greenhouse gas emissions globally to limit the adverse impacts of climate change, as well as to a politically determined international goal with a 2050 deadline. Amid a proliferation of state and nonstate commitments to the goal, research on the politics of net zero remains limited. Numerous scholars have conceptualized this goal as an international norm. This article challenges this conceptualization, arguing that net zero is more appropriately understood as an aspiration. I show how this conceptualization elucidates important climate governance challenges and helps to set more accurate expectations about the effectiveness of standards and enforcement mechanisms for achieving the goal. I argue that the case of net zero undermines conjectures in current theorizing on aspiration in international politics, especially the expectation that actors will not face social consequences for failing to achieve international aspirational goals provided they make at least some progress. This expectation relies on assumptions about aggregate welfare improvement without giving full consideration to how goal setting facilitates potentially cost-inducing blame shifting.
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- crossref https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592726104733first seen 2026-05-14 22:27:19
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