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Interrogating Urban Climate Leadership: Toward a Political Ecology of the C40 Network

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  • Kathryn Davidson
  • Brendan Gleeson

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This article considers the rapid evolution and increased prominence of the C40 Cities Climate Change Leadership Group and its commitment to the development of a new style of thinking, and possibly a new urban construct. This new construct is not yet understood, perhaps due to the fact that it is an inchoate ideal being forged through the work of the network for the future of our cities. Such an assessment is well situated within the political economy of urban sustainability, with its ability to set up an interrogative frame to identify the progressive and regressive possibilities that the C40 signals. This article argues that the C40 cities propose nothing new in their ideas, providing a reinforcement of neoliberal urbanism. We need to deviate from technocratic and “econocratic” approaches toward pathways that emphasize the democratic content of socio-environmental development.

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  • Kathryn Davidson & Brendan Gleeson, 2015. "Interrogating Urban Climate Leadership: Toward a Political Ecology of the C40 Network," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(4), pages 21-38, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:27-38
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    1. Kathryn Davidson & Lars Coenen & Michele Acuto & Brendan Gleeson, 2019. "Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(16), pages 3540-3555, December.
    2. Vanesa Castán Broto & Linda K. Westman, 2020. "Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), July.
    3. Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen & Katharina Rietig & Michelle Scobie, 2022. "Agency dynamics of International Environmental Agreements: actors, contexts, and drivers," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 353-372, June.
    4. Wojciech Drożdż & Grzegorz Kinelski & Marzena Czarnecka & Magdalena Wójcik-Jurkiewicz & Anna Maroušková & Grzegorz Zych, 2021. "Determinants of Decarbonization—How to Realize Sustainable and Low Carbon Cities?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-19, May.
    5. Jorn Koelemaij & Sam Taveirne & Ben Derudder, 2023. "An economic geography perspective on city diplomacy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(6), pages 995-1012, May.
    6. Marielle Papin, 2019. "Transnational municipal networks: Harbingers of innovation for global adaptation governance?," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 467-483, October.

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