TY - JOUR
AU - Ryan, Chris
AB -  The “reality” of climate change—the scientific data, media attention, and community response—is altering the political dynamic for action on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. The pressure and the opportunity to redirect ecodesign and eco‐innovation toward systems change has never been as great. Nations, states, companies, local communities, and not‐for‐profit organizations are debating and even adopting GHG targets for 25‐ to 50‐year timeframes. Like the state of California and many US cities, which have ambitious plans for reducing carbon emissions (diverging strongly from the position of the Bush administration), several Australian states committed to reduction targets during the last year of the previous federal government. They acted in spite of the government's assertive climate skepticism and its strident dismissal of GHG targets as “symbolic actions” likely to destroy the nation's economy. Climate change was one of the top three issues in the 2007 election. For the nation as a whole, there has been a quick transition from the idea that it was necessary to choose between acting to lower carbon emissions or having a buoyant future economy, to a new public position that the low‐carbon economy is the future and that there is a need to be “in” that economy 
TI - Climate Change and Ecodesign
JF - Journal of Industrial Ecology
DO - 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2008.00026.x
DA - 2008-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/climate-change-and-ecodesign-6NLolqRkrm
SP - 140
VL - 12
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -