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Deconstructing corporate net-zero and climate neutrality targets in the German chemical industry Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Franziska Riedel
Companies are becoming ever more present actors in climate change governance and increasing numbers of mostly multinational companies are pledging to become greenhouse gas neutral, climate neutral,...
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EU emissions trading in the buildings sector – an ex-ante assessment Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Sibylle Braungardt, Malte Bei der Wieden, Lukas Kranzl
The EU ETS is one of the first emissions trading schemes in the world and has contributed to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors covered by the scheme in recent years. The EU h...
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Options to enhance China’s national emission trading system design for carbon neutrality Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Hongyu Zhang, Heng Liang, Da Zhang, Junling Huang, Xiliang Zhang
To better align the emissions trajectory of China’s power sector with the country’s neutrality target for 2060, China’s national Emission Trading System (ETS) needs to be enhanced. This study uses ...
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Charting a course for climate policy: blurred policy boundaries, engaging the global south, and reaching beyond incrementalism Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Navroz K. Dubash, Yacob Mulugetta, Pieter Pauw
Published in Climate Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Demand-pull and technology-push environmental innovation: a policy mix analysis on EU ETS and EU Cohesion Policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Francesco Scotti, Andrea Flori, Riccardo Crescenzi, Fabio Pammolli
Existing literature on the sustainability transition towards a low-carbon economy provides conceptual frameworks for designing combinations of policy interventions but lacks empirical evidence rega...
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Exploring representations of climate change as ecocide: implications for climate policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Filippos Proedrou, Maria Pournara
This paper explores whether, to what extent and in what ways climate change is represented as ecocide in scholarly literature. Premised upon a historical materialist lens utilizing the world system...
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An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Rhys Jones, Papaarangi Reid, Alexandra Macmillan
Climate action threatens to exacerbate existing social inequities, so it is important for justice to be at the heart of national responses to climate change. Based on an understanding of climate ch...
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Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Franck Lecocq, Harald Winkler
In the academic and grey literature, near- and mid-term mitigation trajectories by single actors (countries, firms, cities or regions) are often labelled with terms including long-term temperature ...
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How aligned are industry strategy and government policy for the decarbonization of energy-intensive process industries? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Teis Hansen, Johnn Andersson, Jørgen Finstad, Jens Hanson, Hans Hellsmark, Tuukka Mäkitie, Amber Nordholm, Markus Steen
Decarbonization of energy-intensive process industries (EPIs) is a central unresolved challenge for limiting global warming to 1.5°C or well-below 2°C. In this article, we investigate the alignment...
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Residual carbon emissions in companies’ climate pledges: who has to reduce and who gets to remove? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Rosalie Arendt
Corporate carbon neutrality pledges have been criticized for their lack of integrity, especially when they are primarily based on the simple purchase of carbon offsets without making any significan...
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Addressing risks to mental health from climate change: a policy capacity analysis of England Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 John Turnpenny, Meghan Alexander
Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked crises that demand urgent responses within the health sector and beyond. Mental health challenges associated with climate change are wide-ra...
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The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Sugandha Srivastav, Michael Zaehringer
Background: The combustion of coal, the world's most polluting form of energy, must be significantly curtailed to limit the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C. Since carbon prici...
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Governing offshore wind: is an ‘Asia-Pacific Model’ emerging? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Llewelyn Hughes, Wenting Cheng, Thang Nam Do, Anton Ming-Zhi Gao, Jorrit Gosens, Sung-Young Kim, Thomas Longden
The Asia-Pacific region is emerging as central to the deployment of offshore wind power. Large scale offshore wind involves complex governance challenges, and governments can choose to centralize a...
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Health co-benefits and trade-offs of carbon pricing: a narrative synthesis Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Soledad Cuevas, Daniel Nachtigall, Aimee Aguilar Jaber, Kristine Belesova, Jane Falconer, Andy Haines, Tamzin Reynolds, Tobias Magnus Schuster, Sarah Whitmee, Rosemary Green
Carbon pricing is a key component of current climate policy agendas. There are a variety of societal and health impacts from carbon pricing interventions (e.g. from improved air quality). A better ...
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Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Lee V. White, Emma Aisbett, Oscar Pearce, Wenting Cheng
Climate policy – though shaped by international regimes – has traditionally been heavily domestic in practice. Accordingly, public emissions accounting frameworks have been designed to support poli...
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EU’s sustainable finance disclosure regulation: does the hybrid reporting regime undermine the goal to reorient capital to climate action? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ian Cochran, Craig Mackenzie, Matthew Brander
Disclosure and reporting are cornerstones of the European Union’s sustainable finance agenda with the goals of reorienting capital flows towards climate and other sustainable investments and minimi...
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Granular satellite data to assess the potential for nature based solutions at a national scale: a proof of concept with data from Rwanda and Lesotho Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Bas Heerma van Voss, William Ouellette
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) form a substantial part of cost-efficient climate change mitigation options. However, public financial flows towards NbS have been limited. Among the factors impeding i...
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What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Silvia Weko, Esther Schuch
The potential for renewable energy to encourage sustainable development raises high hopes for the future among countries in the Global South. However, there has been less research on how energy tra...
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Phase-in and phase-out policies in the global steel transition Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jonas Algers, Max Åhman
To reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, global emissions should be reduced to net zero by mid-century. The steel sector is an emission-intensive industrial subsector where low-carbon production ...
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Setting the agenda for climate assemblies. Trade-offs and guiding principles Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Janosch Pfeffer
Citizens’ assemblies on climate change are increasingly popular to support democratic decision-making. Such Climate Assemblies (CAs) convene representative groups of citizens formulating policy pro...
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Green central banking: reorienting finance through a recalibration of monetary policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jakob Vestergaard
This paper examines how monetary policy can be calibrated to promote a greening of finance. The paper reviews existing literature and notes a tendency to either focus narrowly on one policy instrum...
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Communicating climate change as a generational issue: experimental effects on youth worry, motivation and belief in collective action Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Shane Timmons, Ylva Andersson, Peter D. Lunn
Generations differ in their contribution to climate change and susceptibility to its effects. Contextualizing climate change as an intergenerational issue may therefore alter public engagement. We ...
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Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Max van Deursen, Aarti Gupta
In this article, we examine the contestations and compromises that underpin the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, with the aim to analyze whose climate action priorities are reflec...
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Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Mariya Aleksandrova, Laura Kuhl, Daniele Malerba
Social protection has gained increasing attention in global climate policy due to its potential to contribute to low-carbon, just and climate-resilient development. Unlocking climate finance for so...
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Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hildén, Timothy R. Carter, Claire Mosoni, Samuli Pitzén, Marja Helena Sivonen
The impacts of climate change materialize in different ways and are of varying magnitudes at different locations around the world. Adaptation is a global policy challenge because some of those impa...
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Effective climate finance coordination? Stakeholder perceptions, climate change policy implementation and the underlying political economy factors in Kenya Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Millicent Apiyo Omala, Eric Kioko, Marie Gravesen
The last two decades have seen an increase in climate financing channelled to the Global South from multiple sources, putting a spotlight on climate finance coordination challenges in recipient cou...
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Increasing public support for climate policy proposals: a research agenda on governable acceptability factors Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Dirk Arne Heyen, Michael Wicki
Addressing climate change demands a varied policy toolkit, ranging from supportive measures to more assertive interventions. However, the latter, especially when impacting consumers’ daily lives, o...
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Azerbaijan: pathways for decarbonization in a global context Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Maksym Chepeliev, Andrea Liverani, Arvind Nair, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
As economies around the world are increasing their mitigation ambitions, Azerbaijan’s lingering dependency on fossil fuel exports threatens its medium – and long-term economic development prospects...
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Actors participation and power relations of REDD+ implementation in Bale Eco Region, Ethiopia Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Aklilu Bekele Chorito, Engdawork Assefa
The study focuses on actor participation and power dynamics in the REDD+ project within the Bale eco-region, a vital facet of global climate policy for sustainable forest resource management. The F...
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Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Tejal Kanitkar, Akhil Mythri, T. Jayaraman
This paper analyses 556 model scenarios assessed by IPCC’s Working Group-III for the 6th Assessment Report, which have an underlying 10-region classification and correspond to restricting warming l...
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Shipping in the EU emissions trading system: implications for mitigation, costs and modal split Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jonas Flodén, Lars Zetterberg, Anastasia Christodoulou, Rasmus Parsmo, Erik Fridell, Julia Hansson, Johan Rootzén, Johan Woxenius
EU recently decided to include shipping, meaning all intra-European shipping and 50% of extra-European voyages, in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) beginning in 2024. This article provides an ...
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Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Daniel Nohrstedt, Charles F. Parker
A general malaise exists today about the prospects for timely and effective climate action. This calls for increased attention to factors that enable climate policy change. Among these enabling fac...
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Pushing low-carbon mobility: a survey experiment on the public acceptance of disruptive policy packages Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Annina Thaller, Michael Wicki, Eva Fleiß, Raphaela Maier, Alfred Posch
Disruptive policy packages that fundamentally change the current unsustainable passenger transport structures and enable low-carbon mobility transformation are inevitable. This implies the use of m...
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Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Niklas Harring, Michael Ndwiga, Anna Nordén, Daniel Slunge
In recent decades, there has been increasing research interest in individuals’ support of and resistance to climate and environmental policy instruments. However, there is an empirical bias in the ...
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Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 A. K. M. Nuruzzaman, Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett
In theory, the work of microfinance organisations (MFOs) should help to reduce social vulnerability to climate change, and there is growing interest in using microfinance for this purpose. However,...
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Embedding deliberation: guiding the use of deliberative mini-publics in climate policy-making Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jacob Ainscough, Rebecca Willis
The use of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs), such as citizens’ assemblies, is becoming more common in climate policy-making across many countries. The upsurge of these methods reflects an acknowled...
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Phasing out carbon not coal? Identifying coal lock-in sources in Japan’s power utilities Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Gregory Trencher, Yuri Okubo, Akihisa Mori
Lock-in to existing assets and business practices is a major obstacle to the global objective of phasing out coal-fired power to accelerate decarbonization towards Paris Agreement goals. Japan has ...
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Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Germán Bersalli, Tim Tröndle, Leon Heckmann, Johan Lilliestam
Crises may act as tipping points for decarbonization pathways by triggering structural economic change or offering windows of opportunity for policy change. We investigate both types of effects of ...
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Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Simon Bullock, James Mason, Alice Larkin
International shipping is a major contributor to climate change. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has jurisdiction over the sector’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and in ...
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Climate policy in an era of polycrisis and opportunities in systems transformations Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Harald Winkler, Frank Jotzo
Published in Climate Policy (Vol. 23, No. 10, 2023)
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Regional economic impacts of the Los Angeles 100% renewable energy transition Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, Adam Rose, Dan Wei, David Keyser, Kevin Crofton
To help mitigate greenhouse gas (GHGs) generation from burning fossil fuels, many state and local governments are requiring utilities to dramatically increase the share of electricity generated fro...
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Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kirsten EH Jenkins
The latest climate science provides stark warnings around the need for a transition away from further oil and gas exploration. Denmark, as a leader in the oil and gas transition, has already cancel...
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Net zero by choice? Oil and gas industry motivations for the energy transition and public policy in Scotland Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Eilidh Hughes, Aiora Zabala
Many oil and gas (O&G) companies began, in recent years, to increase their renewable and low-carbon energy (R&LCE) operations – crucial for climate mitigation. In Scotland, renewable electricity ge...
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A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Peter K. Kruse-Andersen, Marc S. Jacobsen
We highlight a coordination problem between the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the EU's offshore renewable energy strategy. We exemplify this coordination failure by analyzing carbon leakage...
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Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Johannes Bednar, Justin Macinante, Artem Baklanov, Jim W. Hall, Fabian Wagner, Navraj S. Ghaleigh, Michael Obersteiner
According to most climate mitigation scenario assessments, limiting global warming to 1.5–2°C in the long run will not be possible without the extensive deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) f...
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Ambitious climate targets and emission reductions in cities: a configurational analysis Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Matteo Roggero, Jan Fjornes, Klaus Eisenack
Cities have become increasingly vocal in addressing climate change, crafting climate mitigation strategies, and committing to ambitious emission reductions. Previous studies found no evidence that ...
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The Green Climate Fund and private sector climate finance in the Global South Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Thomas Kalinowski
Governments and international organizations are increasingly using public funds to mobilize and leverage private finance for climate projects in the Global South. An important international organiz...
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Enabling gender and social inclusion in climate and agriculture policy and planning through foresight processes: assessing challenges and leverage points Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Edwige Marty, Alcade C. Segnon, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Sabrina Trautman, Sophia Huyer, Laura Cramer, Everisto Mapedza
Scenario-guided foresight processes are increasingly used to engage a broad range of stakeholders in sharing knowledge, reflecting, and setting priorities to respond to present and future climate c...
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The politics of phasing out fossil fuels: party positions and voter reactions in Norway Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Florian Egli, Nielja Knecht, Fride Sigurdsson, Sebastian Sewerin
To mitigate climate change, fossil fuels need to be phased out, but political parties may fear a voter backlash when implementing the required policies. We investigate whether such backlash occurre...
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The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: implications on Brazilian energy intensive industries Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sigit Perdana, Marc Vielle, Thais Diniz Oliveira
As an instrument supporting the realization of EU climate neutrality targets by 2050 and encouraging decarbonization outside its borders, the current proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CB...
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The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Giulio Di Lallo, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Ekaterina Tarasova, Michael Köhl, Lucia Perugini
The Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector (LULUCF) role is of critical importance in contributing to the ambitious targets set by the European Union (EU) to reduce by 55% net greenhouse gas...
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The climate test: a tool to evaluate alignment of energy infrastructure decisions with climate goals Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Michele L. Bustamante, Ann Alexander, Christina Swanson
Although rapid transition away from fossil fuels will be required to limit warming to any agreed upon level, long-lived fossil energy infrastructure buildout continues largely unabated. Many nation...
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Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Cécile Bazart, Thierry Blayac, Hélène Rey-Valette
Using a perception survey of 782 residents of 227 French coastal communities, this study examines the underlying motives for the acceptability of property relocation policies in response to sea lev...
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Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Christian Bretter, Felix Schulz
Decarbonization policies require public support to be implemented and to remain in legislation. Examinations of public support for climate policies tend to focus on a small number of policy instrum...
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Power in climate change policy-making process in South Asia Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sumit Vij, Ryan Stock, Asif Ishtiaque, Maaz Gardezi, Asim Zia
Climate change policies are prepared in a power-loaded environment, where different policy actors interact to meet their personal or collective interests. This paper argues that the ‘power interpla...
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Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Verónica Gutman, Federico Frank, Adrian Monjeau, Pablo L. Peri, Daniel Ryan, José Volante, Luciana Apaza, Virginia Scardamaglia
The development of long-term scenarios to outline pathways for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 has become a standard practice in climate change policy planning. In Argentina, a modelling proces...
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Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Diana Reckien, Robbert Biesbroek, Brian Mantlana, Karin Pfeffer
Climate change is a key socioeconomic and environmental concern in South Africa. The South African government introduced several climate change initiatives to address the impacts of climate change,...
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Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Lucy Njuguna, Robbert Biesbroek, Todd Crane, Peter Tamás
Adaptation tracking is crucial for understanding progress in responding to climate change impacts across space and time. However, adaptation tracking is constrained by the lack of agreement on how ...
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Comparison of carbon management and emissions of universities that did and did not adopt voluntary carbon offsets Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Emily Lewis-Brown, Neil Jennings, Morena Mills, Robert Ewers
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere and stabilize natural carbon sinks has led to the development of many carbon management measures, increasingly ...
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Agricultural emission reduction targets at country and global levels: a bottom-up analysis Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Lærke Godsk Jensbye, Wusheng Yu
Few countries have declared sector-specific emission reduction targets in agriculture, making it difficult to construct and assess realistic climate mitigation scenarios for analytical and policyma...