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The socialization potential of the CDM in EU–Vietnam climate relations

Auteur
Belis D, Kerremans B
Périodique/Collection
Climate Policy | Vol. 16 (8), p. 1048-1064
Date
2016
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-091038)
Éditeur | Lieu de publication
Taylor & Francis | Oxon, United Kingdom
ISSN
1469-3062
Type du document
Article en publication périodique
Langue
Anglais
Pays/Territoire
Viet Nam, Union européenne
Sujet
Environnement gén.
Mot clé
Changement de climat Relations internationales/coopération Mécanisme de développement propre
Résumé

This article argues that the material incentives associated with climate policies such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) may contribute to the socialization of emerging economies such as Vietnam in economic-oriented climate change norms. In current academic research, the CDM has both been extolled as a cost-effective and vilified as an environmentally inadequate instrument. Few studies so far, however, have looked into the CDM's potential contribution to socialization-related phenomena such as raising climate change awareness. This article aims to fill that gap by studying the CDM in EU–Vietnam relations in four periods, namely initiation (2001–2007), improvement (2008–2010), consolidation (2010–2012), and potential habit formation (2012 and beyond), with both the EU and Vietnam being important players in the market for CDM credits (Certified Emission Reductions or CERs). We argue that there is at least a strong potential for habit formation resulting from the CDM's material incentives, and that the underlying causal mechanism involves the emergence and activities of norm entrepreneurs and habit formation through a process of legal institutionalization.