Assembling petroleum production and climate change in Ecuador and Norway

Abstract

Today, a widespread agreement exists within the scientific community regarding anthropogenic global warming (Chevalier 2009a; Bradshaw 2014; McGlade and Ekins 2014). There is little doubt, in other words, that climate change will constitute the greatest environmental challenge in the years to come. The gradual increase in temperature will most certainly have unprecedented consequences not only for the environment but also for the individual and for society as a whole. Therefore, in recent years, climate change has gone from being a topic among researchers and experts to an important political challenge that requires governance at many levels: International, national, and regional (European Commission 2007). Today, climate change is at the heart of environmental discussions and is increasingly replacing ecology, environment, and sustainable development, as the overarching theme (Lidskog and Sundqvist 2013: 19) when discussing the impacts and implications of human-nature interactions