EN ANNAN RETORIK? Nationalistiska partiers anv?ndning av nationalistisk milj?- och klimatpolitik
Climate change is a phenomenon that know no boundaries. While focus on environment and
climate change has become highly prioritized, nationalism has spread across Europe.
Nationalism is by many considered to refuse action to combat climate change although some
argue that nationalism could combat global climate change. Previous research on how
nationalism is implemented in environment and climate politics has mainly focused on single
parties. The thesis therefore aims to give a broad approach and compare how nationalism is
used in environment and climate politics by analyzing 4 European parties with either ethnic or
civic nationalism and different roles in their party system. With a qualitative content analysis
on party programs and election manifestos the findings imply that parties use nationalism in
the climate and environment discourse in a variety of ways. Nationalism is used to deny
responsibility to tackle climate change and keep politics national, but the findings also imply
that nationalism is used to combat environmental degradation and climate change both
national and internationally. Since nationalism is context-driven future research could focus
on poorly developed countries or newly democratized countries in eastern Europe where the
limits and opportunities to form a nationalist environment and climate policy might differ.