European Union Leadership in Climate Change: Mitigation through Multilevel Reinforcement

Schreurs, Miranda A.; Tiberghien, Yves

doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014267.003.0002

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“…Harrison and Sundstrom (2010b) observed that many EU countries, which account for almost 90% of the European sample, and the EU itself, in terms of the European Parliament, rely on proportional representation to elect political representatives. This voting system leverages the influence of political parties and voters for which climate change is a high priority (Schreurs & Tiberghien, 2010). On the contrary, the North American political systems (Canada and the United States) rely on a majority voting approach, which typically reduces voter leverage for consideration of environmental issues, including climate change (Harrison, 2008, 2010).…”

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“…On the contrary, the North American political systems (Canada and the United States) rely on a majority voting approach, which typically reduces voter leverage for consideration of environmental issues, including climate change (Harrison, 2008, 2010). Not only is the climate change issue more likely to gain traction in EU policy formation but in addition the resulting EU decisions concerning burden sharing and various policy directives are enforced by the European Commission (Schreurs & Tiberghien, 2010).…”

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The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy

2016

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Effective public policy to mitigate climate change footprints should build on data-driven analysis of firm-level strategies. This article’s conceptual approach augments the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and identifies investments in four firm-level resource domains (Governance, Information management, Systems, and Technology [ GISTe]) to develop capabilities in climate change impact mitigation. The authors denote the resulting framework as the GISTe model, which frames their analysis and public policy recommendations. This research uses the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) database, with high-quality information on firm-level climate change strategies for 552 companies from North America and Europe. In contrast to the widely accepted myth that European firms are performing better than North American ones, the authors find a different result. Many firms, whether European or North American, do not just “talk” about climate change impact mitigation, but actually do “walk the talk.” European firms appear to be better than their North American counterparts in “walk I,” denoting attention to governance, information management, and systems. But when it comes down to “walk II,” meaning actual Technology-related investments, North American firms’ performance is equal or superior to that of the European companies. The authors formulate public policy recommendations to accelerate firm-level, sector-level, and cluster-level implementation of climate change strategies.

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“…There may even be a kind of multilevel reinforcement of policy action with different actors at different levels supporting each other in the push for policy change. Progressive renewable and climate policies at different levels of government can help keep momentum behind action, despite the existence of veto players (J€ anicke, 2015;Jordan, van Asselt, Berkhout, & Huitema, 2012;Schreurs & Tiberghien, 2010).…”

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“…When there is a push for policy change at the subnational level, it may also result in vertical policy change. This kind of bottom-up diffusion from the subnational to the national and supranational levels has arguably been critical both in relation to climate mitigation efforts and renewable energy promotion (Jordan, 2012;Schreurs, 2008;Schreurs & Tiberghien, 2010). Such bottom-up diffusion is evident in the case of Germany within the EU on climate change (Weidner & Mez, 2008) or California within the United States in relation to, for example, automobile efficiency standards (Karapin, 2016;Mazmanian, Jurewitz, & Nelson, 2008;Peevey & Wittenberg, 2017).…”

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Energy Transition in Europe and the United States: Policy Entrepreneurs and Veto Players in Federalist Systems

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Schreurs

Varone

2019

The Journal of Environment & Development

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The focus of this special issue is on the energy transformations taking place in several European countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland) and at the federal and subnational (state) levels in the United States with special attention given to California. The cases examined all have federalist structures, and with the exception of the federal level of the United States, all have relatively ambitious climate and renewable energy targets. We compare these states out of an interest in better understanding how federalism interacts with energy transitions. The comparison is also intriguing as at the federal level the United States presents a stark contrast with the federalist European countries considered in this special issue but at the subnational level many similarities can be found.

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“…This article makes new contributions by applying the veto player (VP) framework to Russian climate policy and by proposing methodological developments to VP theory to make it applicable for studying non-democracies. The VP framework has been applied to the international climate negotiation process itself (see for instance Ward et al 2001) but is more commonly used in various qualitative formats to analyse the politics behind countrylevel policies and positions (see Schreurs and Tiberghien 2010;Skodvin et al 2010). Only the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2011, 66-69) has included a brief VP analysis of Russian climate policy.…”

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Who is driving Russian climate policy? Applying and adjusting veto players theory to a non-democracy

Korppoo

2015

Int Environ Agreements

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What is driving Russian climate policy? This article focuses on the veto player approach developed by George Tsebelis and its applicability for examining the power relations in climate change policy-making in Russia. It makes two original contributions: veto players analysis on Russian climate policy and proposals how to adjust to theory to be applied to nondemocracies for comparison with democracies. After identifying the veto players and their preferences, and determining their equivalence in the decision-making process, two case studies are examined: the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and the establishment of one of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms, Joint Implementation, in Russia. Regarding the power play between actors, the latter emerges as far more accessible than the former, where scholars can generally observe only the domestic debate-which, due to the absorption of democratic decision-making institutions by the president, is detached from the actual decision-making process. Three proposals are made for adjusting the veto players approach to facilitate qualitative analysis of Russian decisionmaking: (1) select cases which involve also lower-level actors in charge of policy implementation; (2) due to implementation problems, changes in the status quo must be sought deeper than in statute-level changes; and (3) note that motivations of actors beyond the actual policy substance can facilitate explanations of puzzling outcomes in the process.

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European Union Leadership in Climate Change: Mitigation through Multilevel Reinforcement

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy

The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy

Energy Transition in Europe and the United States: Policy Entrepreneurs and Veto Players in Federalist Systems

Who is driving Russian climate policy? Applying and adjusting veto players theory to a non-democracy

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