Governing complexity: How can the interplay of multilateral environmental agreements be harnessed for effective international market-based climate policy instruments?

Hoch, Stephan; Michaelowa, Axel; Espelage, Aglaja; Weber, Anne-Kathrin

doi:10.1007/s10784-019-09455-6

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“…Although some HFC abatement options are considered cheap, i.e. in the range of less than $10 per CO2e 207 , comprehensive options across all categories of F-gases would be expensive. Almost all alternatives thus have many challenges to overcome, especially their cost.…”

Section: Financial and Economic Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…232 Industrial manufacturing firms quickly realized that they could initiate projects to rapidly earn hundreds of millions of emission credits at very low abatement costs. 207 For example, projects abating HFC-23 and SF6 under the Kyoto Protocol's Joint Implementation mechanism in Russia increased waste gas generation to unprecedented levels once they could generate credits from producing more waste gas, something shown in Figure 32. 233 After the start of crediting, SF6 production (and abatement) from HaloPolymer Perm tripled beyond historical emission levels.…”

Section: Gaming and Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions

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Section: Gaming and Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions

Sovacool

Griffiths

Kim

et al. 2021

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

234

112

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“…Another emerging stream of research has focused on ways in which international bureaucracies, such as intergovernmental treaty secretariats, play an important role in managing regime overlap across intergovernmental and transnational institutions, thereby influencing political outcomes (Biermann & Siebenhüner, 2009;Hoch et al, 2019;Jinnah, 2010Jinnah, , 2014Jinnah & Lindsay, 2015;Skovgaard, 2017). In this context, studies have demonstrated that intergovernmental treaty secretariats can orchestrate, mobilize, and catalyze transnational initiatives to rally for more impactful intergovernmental policy-making and forge new alliances between public and private institutions to accelerate the transformation toward sustainable development (e.g., Hickmann & Elsässer, 2020;Hickmann et al, 2019).…”

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Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research

Elsässer

Hickmann

Jinnah

et al. 2022

Int Environ Agreements

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Over the past decades, the growing proliferation of international institutions governing the global environment has impelled institutional interplay as a result of functional and normative overlap across multiple regimes. This article synthesizes primary contributions made in research on institutional interplay over the past twenty years, with particular focus on publications with International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Broadening our understanding about the different types, dimensions, pathways, and effects of institutional interplay, scholars have produced key insights into the ways and means by which international institutions cooperate, manage discord, engage in problem solving, and capture synergies across levels and scales. As global environmental governance has become increasingly fragmented and complex, we recognize that recent studies have highlighted the growing interactions between transnationally operating institutions in the wake of polycentric governance and hybrid institutional complexes. However, our findings reveal that there is insufficient empirical and conceptual research to fully understand the relationship, causes, and consequences of interplay between intergovernmental and transnational institutions. Reflecting on the challenges of addressing regulatory gaps and mitigating the crisis of multilateralism, we expound the present research frontier for further advancing research on institutional interplay and provide recommendations to support policy-making.

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“…Furthermore, in some cases, existing evidence shows that states do not carry out these changes and behave contrary to expectations [54,64,83,84]. Country-based academic studies such as by Brown-Weiss and Jacobson [24], issue-based studies [43,71,[85][86][87] and policy reports and assessments conducted by the conventions, such as the Global Wetlands Outlook [20], evidence that obligations are not being implemented to the extent envisioned by the agreements.…”

Section: Global Environmental Agreements and The Implementation Puzzlementioning

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Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Escobar-Pemberthy

Ivanova

2020

Sustainability

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Global environmental conventions are created to address and resolve global environmental problems. Assessments of the achievement of specific environmental goals, however, indicate that there is room for progress and that improved collective action is required. Given the few existing studies that measure the implementation of international environmental law, it is important to expand existing analytical frameworks about international environmental agreements and their translation into national policies. This article explains the rationale and design of the Environmental Conventions Index, an implementation measurement tool we have developed at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Index assesses the implementation of global environmental conventions in two clusters—conservation and pollution—showcasing the main trends for both countries and conventions. Using a mixed-method approach, we explain the development of this measurement tool as an instrument to inform policy changes at the national and global levels and present aggregate results of the analysis. As global environmental challenges in the conservation of natural resources and the persistence of pollutants become critical, assessment of countries’ performance on international environmental goals is essential. We offer an innovative method that provides academic analysis and policy input to improve implementation, and thus the effectiveness of these governance instruments in addressing global environmental challenges.

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Governing complexity: How can the interplay of multilateral environmental agreements be harnessed for effective international market-based climate policy instruments?

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions

Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions

Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research

Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

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