Mayors’ net-zero pledges at COP26: Building momentum and gaining influence in climate politics

In: Conflicts in urban future-making: Governance, institutions, and transformative change, Editors: Monika Grubbauer, Alessandra Manganelli, Louis Volont

D’Amico sheds light on Glasgow’s COP26 summit as a carefully staged performance that elevated net-zero emissions targets as a dominant framing for urban climate action. She uses a dramaturgical lens to unpack the diffusion of net-zero targets across over 1,000 cities and shows the rhetorical power of these targets for maintaining hope in climate cooperation while supporting mayors’ advocacy. The chapter also notes the limited potential of top-down framings to drive urban transformations.

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