| Title |
The 'European Green Deal' - a paradigm shift? Transformations in the European Union's sustainability meta-discourse |
| ID_Doc |
62924 |
| Authors |
Schunz, S |
| Title |
The 'European Green Deal' - a paradigm shift? Transformations in the European Union's sustainability meta-discourse |
| Year |
2022 |
| Published |
Political Research Exchange, 4, 1 |
| DOI |
10.1080/2474736X.2022.2085121 |
| Abstract |
In December 2019, the European Commission released its strategy for the European Union (EU), the European Green Deal (EGD), which perceives the 'commitment to tackling climate and environmental-related challenges' as 'this generation's defining task'. It intends to 'transform [the EU's] economy and society to put it on a more sustainable path', and has been hailed for its potential to durably change European societies. This contribution examines if the EGD offers a discursive paradigm shift regarding environmental sustainability. To this end, it performs a critical discourse analysis on the meta-discourse embodied in the EGD and its predecessors, Europe 2020 and the Lisbon Strategy. It finds that the EGD marks a significant discursive break, moving the EU's meta-discourse from a negligence of environmental sustainability in the 2000s, and the idea that sustainability as an attribute to growth can support a 'jobs and growth' agenda during the 2010s, to centre-stage. By empowering pro-environmental forces, it provides unseen overtures towards a paradigm shift of practical consequence for European - and via an example-setting effect - global sustainability policies. The article concludes by explaining the meta-discursive shift and discussing its implications for EU sustainability policies. |
| Author Keywords |
discourse analysis; environment; European Green Deal; European Union; sustainability |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000811341800001 |
| WoS Category |
Political Science |
| Research Area |
Government & Law |
| PDF |
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2474736X.2022.2085121?needAccess=true
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