From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India as a 'Door Opener' to a Sustainable Future

Dubash, Navroz K.; Jogesh, Anu

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“…Nevertheless, the narratives presented in these documents lay the basis for the more active bundling strategies that we describe in the following section, as well as mitigating the potential for direct opposition. As Dubash and Jogesh argue for the state‐level climate change action plans introduced in India, “climate plans … are more appropriately viewed as the first step in an iterative process, rather than the launch pad for implementing policies” (Dubash & Jogesh, , p. 91), but they “have led to a conversation at the state level, and in some cases to deepened engagement by key bureaucrats in the state” (Dubash & Joseph, , pp. 51–52).…”

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Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

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Kostka

2019

Development Policy Review

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This article explores how strategies of thinking and working politically are used by agencies within developing country governments to influence wider government agendas. It uses research on climate change mitigation in China and India to explore how government agencies seek to overcome challenges of limited capacity and competing priorities by bundling climate change together with more immediate priorities and thereby developing a coalition with an interest in achieving these objectives. The article is based on interviews conducted in China and India, as well as analysis of themes covered in the growing body of literature on the domestic politics of climate change mitigation. In both countries we found that pragmatic approaches leveraging what already exists made significant progress in putting energy efficiency on the agenda, strengthening institutional presence (in India) and delivering improvements in energy efficiency (in China). Yet, we also found that the use of these tactics had significant limitations. While there was probably no other way that the policy space given to climate change mitigation could have increased so rapidly, there are significant side effects that arise as a result of the traction gained by these initial policy approaches. While bundling raised the profile of energy efficiency, it also created perverse incentives that highlight the need to consider the long‐term effect on the interests, capacity and sustainability of informal coalitions. We highlight the need to take account of both the short‐ and long‐term effects of thinking and working politically, and the challenges of doing so when the outcomes are unpredictable and inherently difficult to assess.

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Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

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Kostka

2019

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“…and a traditionally dominant decisive role of the national government. However, in recent years literature points to the importance of the subnational states in the formulation and implementation of own climate policies as well (Atteridge et al 2012;Jörgensen 2012a;Dubash & Jogesh 2014).…”

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Multi-level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies

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Mishra

Sarangi

2015

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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“…All the Indian states have developed State Action Plans on Climate Change. However, these plans are adaptation centric (Dubash & Jogesh, 2014). Domestically, although a number of policies are relevant to mitigation objectives, the country's climate policy, the National Action Plan on Climate Change (henceforth, "Action Plan") provides the strategy for tackling climate change while pursuing the state's development agenda.…”

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“…The literature refers to concepts such as mainstreaming, alignment and linking to refer to the efforts undertaken to achieve the same. These are often used alongside each other in the climate literature to indicate the relationship between climate policy objectives and other policy objectives or in exploring how different levels of government interact with each other to influence policy objectives (Brouwer, Rayner, & Huitema, 2013;Dubash & Jogesh, 2014;van Asselt, Rayner, & Persson, 2015).…”

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“…climate policy integration is seen as prioritizing climate objectives over other policy objectives without paying much attention to the pursuit of multiple and sometimes competing objectives (Adelle & Russel, 2013). The concept of climate policy integration finds little resonance in the developing country or emerging economy contexts (however, see Dubash & Jogesh, 2014 on mainstreaming across different levels of governance), possibly because it seems to give normative prominence to environmental objectives over others. Therefore I do not use the term integration in studying policy integration, rather I use it to study horizontal and vertical integration when it comes to operationalising the climate policy.…”

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National Appropriateness of International Climate Policy Frameworks in India, Brazil, and South Africa

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LIST OF TABLESThe thesis provides answers to these questions by studying domestic engagements with Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in three emerging economiesIndia, Brazil, and South Africa. The thesis specifically studies how these engagements were influenced by the domestic institutional context provided by national climate policy, norms, and institutional capacity in the three countries. Drawing upon the variations in the engagements with nationally appropriate mitigation actions, made visible by use of the policy cycle as a heuristic device, the thesis informs the implementation of another nascent, yet prevalent, international climate policy framework -Nationally Determined Contributions.The thesis identifies how engagements with nationally appropriate mitigation actions varied in India, Brazil, and South Africa in agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation. In cases where international support is considered crucial for taking mitigation actions, external factors such as lack of clarity on definitional aspects and availability of international support can hamper the prospects of such frameworks at the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages. Efforts to engage with these frameworks under this uncertainty are held back by non-decisions, overriding national climate policy, as well as by uneven inter-ministerial coordination. The thesis argues that successful implementation of upcoming Nationally Determined Contributions will be influenced by a country's ability to align them with its national climate policy, localization of the transnational norms, and the extent to which efforts to enhance institutional capacity for coordinating the implementation of national climate policy are made. In sum, the effective implementation of International Climate Policy Frameworks will be dependent on the willingness of the state to provide oversight and coordination, and clarity on the availability of international support.Keywords: Policy process, Institutions, Domestic Politics, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, National, Climate Policy, India, Brazil, South Africa, Institutional Capacity, Norms, Nationally Determined Contributions.ii LIST OF APPENDED PAPERSThis thesis is based on the following papers. The papers are referred to by their roman numbers in the thesis. Author's contributionsPaper I was co-authored with Navroz K. Dubash, Niklas Höhne, and Markus Hagemann. Prabhat Upadhyaya, the author of this thesis, conducted the background research, codeveloped the methodology, coordinated the data collection and data analysis for the paper, personally collected data for all the countries profiled in Asia and Africa, and construction of the database.The author is solely responsible for Paper II.For papers III and IV, the author conducted the empirical work and preliminary analysis, contributed to developing the analytical framework, coded the material, and contributed to the overall writing. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis thesis is a product of rendezvous and conversations...

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From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India as a 'Door Opener' to a Sustainable Future

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Multi-level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies

National Appropriateness of International Climate Policy Frameworks in India, Brazil, and South Africa

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