Political Consequences
Methane politics is not only about how politics affects methane emissions and mitigation, but also about the knock-on social-political consequences of the latter.
We thus ask:
- How do local groups and communities living in the midst of high methane emissions (e.g. informal landfill workers, or communities affected by oil fields or LNG plants) manage with this, how are they affected, and with what political consequences?
- How are methane policies, regulations and associated abatement technologies reshaping corporate practices and economic and political hierarchies?
- What new dynamics of commodification, commercialisation, exclusion and marginalisation are these developments contributing to?
- How are methane mitigation practices influencing broader mitigation priorities, including ideas about fossil fuel transition? and
- How do such questions figure within methane policy debates?
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