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Environmental policy: Environmental policy comprises laws, regulations, and actions implemented by governments and organizations to address environmental challenges. It aims to manage natural resources, mitigate pollution, and promote sustainable practices. See also Environmental ethics, Climate change, Climate damages, Environmental justice, Generational justice.
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Mause I 413
Environmental Policy/New Political Economy/Public Choice: since the New Political Economy assumes that the respective (short-term) chances of re-election constitute a central restriction to action for politicians, well-informed and influential political actors or groups in environmental policy - contrary to the common good - can shape or even block the choice of environmental policy strategies according to their specific preferences (Döring and Pahl 2003, S.  94)(1), as was already fundamentally explained by Olson (1965)(2) in his reflections on the "logic of collective action".
The particular interests of relatively small and financially well-funded interest groups will therefore have a greater chance of asserting themselves.
Problem: heterogeneous groups such as taxpayers, consumers and environmental activists are thus subject to asymmetry in terms of influence.
>State/Public Choice.
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>Emission permits, >Emission reduction credits, >Emission targets, >Emissions, >Emissions trading, >Climate change, >Climate damage, >Energy policy, >Clean Energy Standards, >Climate data, >Climate history, >Climate justice, >Climate periods, >Climate targets, >Climate impact research, >Carbon price, >Carbon price coordination, >Carbon price strategies, >Carbon tax, >Carbon tax strategies.

1. Thomas Döring & Thilo Pahl. Kooperative Lösungen in der Umweltpolitik – eine ökonomische Sicht. In Kooperative Umweltpolitik, Hrsg. Bernd Hansjürgens, Wolfgang Köck und Georg Kneer, 89– 112. Baden-Baden 2003.
2. Mancur Olson, The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge 1965.

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