ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relational issues that underpin the framing of a need to change mobility systems and the mechanisms through which change can be enacted. It juxtaposes localism and globalism and problematises scalar systems of governance which seek to compartmentalise the scope for action. In dividing the chapter up into international, national, and then local, we deliberately play with the apparently clear dividing lines between responsibilities for climate change allocated on the basis of voting rights. Whilst some international organising mechanism has to exist, and it is the one that the climate emergency will play out under, we show that in a globalised system of consumption and provision, there is no “now-here” without a “now-there”. By considering what “now-here” means in different contexts, we open up a dialogue over what local or national action really means, and whether there is an appetite to even recognise, never mind address, global inequity.
