Description
Global momentum towards restricting the production of climate-heating fossil fuels is
increasing, with important implications for pathways to development and prosperity
beyond fossil fuels. Yet understandings of the comparative political dynamics driving
this process are lacking. Based on original quantitative and qualitative research in eight
first-mover countries that have unilaterally adopted supply-side policies to limit fossil
fuel production (Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Greenland, Sweden
and the UK), we identify overarching lessons that can be derived from the experience
to date of these countries regarding (i) the drivers of these policies, (ii) the specific
forms they take, and (iii) how effective are they at leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
This enhances our understanding of this critical new frontier in climate governance by
embedding analysis in the political economy of development in these countries.
