[fvc-wat-disc] Fw: Earth Day Climate Report! Voting Systems andClimate Action: The Evidence

[Dave Arthur]

No surprise. PR has been shown to consistently result in more cooperation.
Dave A

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From: David dirks
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2022 1:01 PM
To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] Fw: Earth Day Climate Report! Voting Systems andClimate Action: The Evidence

Apologies for any duplication in mailing.  Interesting read on the link between voting systems and climate action.

David


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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022, 09:04:24 AM EDT
Subject: Earth Day Climate Report! Voting Systems and Climate Action: The Evidence





Voting Systems and Climate Action: 
The Evidence
A New Report by Fair Vote Canada
Dear David,
We've heard it from the scientists: the clock is ticking for action on climate change. Every fraction of degree of warming we can avoid, the more lives will be saved. 

Ambitious, sustained action from our governments is desperately needed, but the real questions remain:

How can we make serious and sustained progress, when the political barriers seem so profound? 
How can we encourage our political parties to rise to the challenge and work together on solutions?

Fair Vote Canada's new report, Voting Systems and Climate Action: The Evidence, lays out one key piece of the answer: proportional representation. Countries with PR deliver more ambitious, sustained climate action.

This report comes on the heels of a brand new 2022 study by Ben Lockwood, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, and Matt Lockwood, Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School. They looked at the impact of the far right on climate policy in 31 OECD countries from 2007 to 2018.

The researchers found that countries with proportional representation (PR) voting systems are better protected against the threat of having climate policy torn up by right wing populists than countries outside the EU with winner-take-all systems such as Canada, the USA and Australia.
Proportional representation seems to act as a bulwark against climate policy lurch: in countries with proportional representation, researchers found far-right parties had no significant effect on climate policy.

As Lockwood noted, in countries with winner-take-all voting systems, the far right can “capture an existing centre-right party”, forming a mainstream populist government with a profoundly negative effect on climate policy.
It’s worth recalling that in Canada, a single-party “majority government” can be formed with about one third of the popular vote.

Fair Vote Canada's new report—Voting Systems and Climate Action: The Evidence—outlines the decades of research and real world examples of how voting systems impact on environmental protection.

If we want policy created through collaboration, supported by a genuine majority of voters—policy built to last—we need proportional representation.

Read the report on this page or click the picture below.



 


 


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