Enhancing Ambition through International Cooperative Initiatives

Harrison, Nicholas; Höhne, Niklas; Braun, Nadine; Deng, Yvonne; Day, Thomas; Bartlett, Nicolette; Dixson-Declève, Sandrine

doi:10.6027/tn2014-518

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“…In the transnational governance domain, even less is known about performance 23,78 . Unlike national policy, where some forms of evaluation are at least routinely undertaken, no single actor has yet felt compelled to lead.…”

Section: Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

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Governance responses from the international climate regime have been widely critiqued. But fresh research is revealing that ‘new’ and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing in alternative domains, producing a more polycentric pattern. Some analysts believe that these ‘new’ forms will fill gaps in the regime, but this optimism is based on untested assumptions about their diffusion and performance. We conclude that the advent of more polycentric governance does offer new opportunities to govern climate change, but based on existing empirical research it is far too early to judge whether hopes about the performance of the ‘new’ forms are well founded. More time and vastly more coordinated research efforts are needed to comprehend their full potential; time that is in very short supply in governing climate change

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Section: Performancementioning

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“…Tracing the data sourcing for the politically oriented databases as well as the people behind them reveals a divide between academic and political efforts. As mentioned in previous sections, the data trail leading the PCI database and by extension CIP, reports by Harrison and colleagues for the Nordic Council of Ministers, 64 the UNFCCC technical report on international cooperative initiatives 30,63 or Wouters, 65 omit references to the work carried out by researchers involved in the TCCGIs database (even though other informal data-exchange have taken place). Moreover, both the Gap Reports and the Blok et al's article omit references to any of the databases collected by researchers on transnational climate governance such as Hoffmann, 14 Hale and Roger, 32 or Bulkeley et al 11 Hence, initiatives highlighted by academics as potentially important for GHG mitigation may not make their way into the official assessments of the UNEP or the UNFCCC thus failing to exploit the knowledge gains made in research, in particular issues beyond the mere reduction of GHG emissions.…”

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The expanding field of cooperative initiatives for decarbonization: a review of five databases

Widerberg

Stripple

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate governance beyond the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-including countries, companies, civil society, and international organizations, forming cooperative initiatives-is increasingly framed as complementing, supporting, and even substituting the multilateral negotiations. Cooperative initiatives activating nonstate actors could help bridging the 'ambition gap' between governmental greenhouse gas mitigation pledges and the decarbonization pathway needed to halt global warming at 2 C. But what do we know about the performance of cooperative initiatives and their participants? We examine the content of five databases aiming to capture the emerging field of cooperative initiatives and assess whether it is possible to measure the performance of cooperative initiatives based on current data. Overall, we find a substantial lack of ex post data for measuring performance. Available studies either focus on nonemission-related qualitative variables and characteristics of cooperative initiatives such as governance function, participants composition, and thematic areas, or use quantitative modeling approaches to estimate their potential impact. Consequently, we currently lack information to assess how existing initiatives perform in relation to the socio-technical systems they are intended to intervene in, or how initiatives align, scale-up, and form low-carbon pathways. Given the increasingly important role and legitimacy attributed to cooperative initiatives in addressing climate change, we argue that focusing more on gathering ex post data, improving exchange between academic and policyoriented work, and developing assessment methods accommodating diversity in terms of function, goal, and output, are needed to understand the performance of climate governance beyond the UNFCCC.

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“…Finally, the GCAA focuses on mobilizing commitments to action that have a large potential impact on GHG emissions (Blok et al 2012;Graichen et al 2016;Harrison et al 2014;Hsu et al 2015;Roelfsema et al 2015;UNEP 2015;Widerberg and Pattberg 2015). However, the support for successfully implementing commitments is limited.…”

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Exploring national and regional orchestration of non-state action for a < 1.5 °C world

Chan

Ellinger

Widerberg

2018

Int Environ Agreements

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The importance of actions by non-state and sub-national actors (e.g., companies and cities) is increasingly recognized, because current governmental commitments are insufficient to limit the increase of global temperatures to 1.5°C. Orchestration, the alignment between 'orchestrator' (e.g., international organizations and governments) and 'intermediaries' (e.g., city networks and partnerships), could harness additional contributions by building catalytic linkages and by enabling a growing number of actions. Although most orchestration efforts have been made in the context of international climate negotiations, regional and national orchestration could be useful by contributing to the implementation of national commitments, and by inspiring greater ambition. We investigate whether and how regional and national orchestrators respond to shortfalls in international orchestration. Using insights from a comparative study, we provide an early indication of the catalytic potential of orchestration in Latin America, Europe, India, Argentina, and Sweden. We find considerable impacts of global level orchestration on the emergence of these initiatives, however orchestrators do not simply copy other efforts; they emphasize different catalytic linkages, including the engagement of underrepresented actors; implementation; and, the provision of ideational and material support. Catalytic linkages in a complex landscape with multiple orchestrators could sometimes be improved through

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Enhancing Ambition through International Cooperative Initiatives

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

The expanding field of cooperative initiatives for decarbonization: a review of five databases

Exploring national and regional orchestration of non-state action for a < 1.5 °C world

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