How to evade a fossil gas trap

Sammanfattning: This paper examines to what extent a government decision concerning a debated climate issue was a result of the efforts of a climate justice campaign. In 2017, a campaign organisation was launched under the name ‘Fossilgasfällan’, and two and a half years later the Swedish government essentially met their most important demand. I argue that this was very likely indeed a consequence of a sustained mobilisation by the campaign, without which the decision would have been another. This claim is supported by evidence gathered through interviews and text material. Analysis and presentation is guided by the use of Resource Mobilisation theory. Thus, five types of resources, which previous studies of social movements have identified as possibly important for a movements capacity to effectively mobilise, are outlined in the theory chapter and examined in the analysis. Furthermore, campaign activities, processes and impacts are presented in five phases, to distinguish each chain in the causation mechanism and pinpoint which resources were important for which phase. Additional explanatory variables are discussed, as well as an interesting finding which goes beyond the scope of resource mobilisation.