Climate change policies and agendas: Facing implementation challenges and guiding responses

Alvés, Fátima; Filho, Walter Leal; Casaleiro, Paula; Nagy, Gustavo J.; Diaz, Harry; Al‐Amin, Abul Quasem; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Hurlbert, Margot; Farooq, Harith; Kļaviņš, Māris; Saroar, Mustafa; Lorencová, Eliška Krkoška; Jain, Suresh; Soares, Amadeu M.V.M.; Morgado, Fernando; O’Hare, Paul; Wolf, Franziska; Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.001

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“…Having independent CCCs is significant to overcome the vulnerability of many quasi-institutions. As most of these institutions are state-centric and predominantly focus on the global agenda, they dismiss critical local aspects of climate policy, such as the prevalent socioeconomic situations in the country [62]. Our study also reflects this crucial point, as 97.6% of the respondents supported the inclusion of social science experts as part of CCCs.…”

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Multidisciplinary Composition of Climate Change Commissions: Transnational Trends and Expert Perspectives

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Climate change governance has metamorphosed from multilateral pacts such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement to the enactment of country-specific dedicated legislation for mitigation and adaptation. A common feature of this phenomenon is the establishment of an expert committee on climate change, or simply, a climate change commission (CCC). For effective climate change governance, a multidisciplinary CCC will play a key role. The objective of this study is to inquire into the multidisciplinary requirements of a CCC and how multidisciplinarity can influence the efficacy of climate governance measures. Accordingly, it inquires into transnational circumstances on the disciplinary/multidisciplinary composition of CCCs and samples the perspectives of over 120 climate policy experts—through a structured survey—to draw insights into how countries could establish a suitable multidisciplinary CCC in legislative and policy processes. Key results from transnational circumstances and expert perspectives reveal the propriety of establishing CCCs to drive robust mitigation and adaptation policies. As the study shows, multiple countries have already incorporated diverse domains and backgrounds of expertise in the composition of their CCCs. Furthermore, our experts’ survey reveals overwhelming support among respondents (98%) for CCCs, and all those who support these commissions believe they should be, to some degree, independent and multidisciplinary. Experts’ perspectives reveal a spectrum of specific desirable multidisciplinary categories—legal, physical science, biosciences, energy and engineering, economics, planning, social sciences, ethics, governance, health, and communication. We also highlight some caveats regarding multidisciplinarity and reflect on the existence of quasi-institutions across countries without dedicated CCCs.

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Multidisciplinary Composition of Climate Change Commissions: Transnational Trends and Expert Perspectives

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“…The data used in the research was not intended to provide a representative or statistical sample of how all the NDCs in SSA are trying to integrate and coordinate climate change issues with other development priorities such as renewable energy deployment, but rather to provide an indication of how NDC priorities and institutional arrangements in NDCs can potentially constrain the potential of NDCs to have the dual roles of promoting climate change actions and sustainable development. The methodology and research framework adopted therefore bears resemblance to some secondary data based studies such as England et al (2018) and Alves et al (2020). In the research by England et al (2018), the study sought to determine how national governments can harmonise their national policies in order to maximize their potential to move towards Climate Compatible Development.…”

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“…Additionally, for policies that could not be located online, staff members working for relevant government departments were contacted by email in order to obtain the policies (England et al 2018). In the study by Alves et al (2020), the study sought to analyse the status of climate change policies by using a sample of 13 countries to understand how such countries were developing their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to overcome the observed climate adaptation limitations and guide their responses. The methodology in this paper included analyses and comparisons of public policies on climate change (e.g.…”

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“…The methodology in this paper included analyses and comparisons of public policies on climate change (e.g. objectives, stakeholders, participatory mechanisms) by looking at both NAPs and complementary plans and measures (Alves et al 2020).…”

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“…Nonetheless, contemporary studies are now arguing that climate change will continue to impede progress towards attaining the SDGs if existing climate change governance architectures are not improved (Alves et al 2020;Mpaire et al 2017;Pardoe et al 2018). On one hand, this means that the NDC framework has two great challenges to overcome, that is to increase climate change mitigation actions to a level commensurate with reaching the Paris Agreement's 2°C target and to establish institutional arrangements that can enable the NDC framework to foster successful low carbon development transitions.…”

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Determinants of corporate climate change disclosure: Is the mediating role of corporate strategic response to environmental governance and policy matter? Evidence from emerging market

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We examine the determinants and the mediating role of corporate strategic response to environmental governance and policy (EGP) with the extent of corporate climate change disclosure (CCD) through the isomorphic pressures. We collect data from annual reports of Bangladeshi listed manufacturing corporations and we analyze data via partial least square‐structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM). Our study findings indicate that board specialty in terms of independent directorship, board human capital reflected by education, and experience, as well as the corporate values include corporate convictions and commitments reflected by vision, mission, core objectives have significant and positive relationships with CCD. The EGP also mediates the abovementioned relationships. Furthermore, the EGP mediates the relationship between corporate attributes (total assets, ROA, ROE, leverage) and CCD. Our findings suggest that when corporations strategically response to environmental issues by putting in place environmental‐related governance and policy, factors such as corporate attributes, board specialty, and corporate values play stronger role in promoting corporate climate change disclosure in developing economies like Bangladesh. Our results offer implications to policymakers, governmental units, professional bodies, social catalysts, and industry practitioners, on their important role in promoting sustainable development by encouraging corporations to manage their environmental issues strategically via corporate governance, strategic environmental management and climate change disclosure.

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Climate change policies and agendas: Facing implementation challenges and guiding responses

Cited by 39 publications

References 17 publications

Multidisciplinary Composition of Climate Change Commissions: Transnational Trends and Expert Perspectives

Multidisciplinary Composition of Climate Change Commissions: Transnational Trends and Expert Perspectives

The Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Sustainable Development Goal 7: Policy Insights from sub-Saharan Africa and Malawi

Determinants of corporate climate change disclosure: Is the mediating role of corporate strategic response to environmental governance and policy matter? Evidence from emerging market

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