Institutionalizing climate change mitigation and adaptation through city advisory committees: Lessons learned and policy futures

Göpfert, Christian; Wamsler, Christine; Lang, Werner

doi:10.1016/j.cacint.2019.100004

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“…These discussions identified synergies and co-benefits as well as trade-offs and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation (Grafakos et al 2018(Grafakos et al , 2020Hamin and Gurran 2009;Landauer et al 2015;Sharifi 2020Sharifi , 2021. They emphasize the mitigation-adaptation nexus, focus on the organizational institutionalization of climate mitigation and adaptation policies, develop indicators for the level of integration, discuss the role of national mandates and focus on sectoral policies (Keskitalo et al 2016;Reckien et al 2018;Grafakos et al 2019Grafakos et al , 2020Göpfert et al 2019aGöpfert et al , b, 2020Lee et al 2020;Landauer et al 2019).…”

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“…Grafakos et al 2020). Also, some studies focus on specific institutional features such as climate change committees (Göpfert et al 2019a) or on the characteristics of existing plans such as the difference between dedicated and mainstreaming approaches (Reckien et al 2019).…”

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“…Third, the relationship between mitigation and adaptation on the ground is complex, involving not only synergies but also trade-offs and rivalry (Grafakos et al 2018(Grafakos et al , 2020Hamin and Gurran 2009;Landauer et al 2015;Sharifi 2020Sharifi , 2021. City administrations often treat the two fields separately and develop distinct strategies for each of them (Göpfert et al 2019a;Grafakos et al 2020;Reckien et al 2018), which rarely consider how they might be better integrated (Grafakos et al 2020).…”

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Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

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Climate mitigation and climate adaptation are crucial tasks for urban areas and can involve synergies as well as trade-offs. However, few studies have examined how mitigation and adaptation efforts relate to each other in a large number of differently sized cities, and therefore we know little about whether forerunners in mitigation are also leading in adaptation or if cities tend to focus on just one policy field. This article develops an internationally applicable approach to rank cities on climate policy that incorporates multiple indicators related to (1) local commitments on mitigation and adaptation, (2) urban mitigation and adaptation plans and (3) climate adaptation and mitigation ambitions. We apply this method to rank 104 differently sized German cities and identify six clusters: climate policy leaders, climate adaptation leaders, climate mitigation leaders, climate policy followers, climate policy latecomers and climate policy laggards. The article seeks explanations for particular cities’ positions and shows that coping with climate change in a balanced way on a high level depends on structural factors, in particular city size, the pathways of local climate policies since the 1990s and funding programmes for both climate mitigation and adaptation.

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“…Despite such challenges, the NPCC has provided the science foundation for ten years of concerted action by the City government to develop climate resilience 34 . In other settings, Göpfert and others 35 observe in their analysis of 107 German cities a wide variety of climate panel organization structure and creative contestations between practitioner, policy-maker, and science communities.…”

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Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships

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Cities have become increasingly recognized as key sites for climate research and action. Recently, these efforts have been significantly advanced through science-policy-practice partnerships. The objective of this paper is to assess how these partnerships are structured, the research and action agenda that underpins them, and how this agenda is being articulated and implemented. The assessment also helps to define some of the conceptual and operational gaps faced by the science-policy-practice community and how they can be addressed. The work evaluates the critical conditions for promoting these advances including the definition and fulfillment of knowledge needs, the integration of different perspectives and approaches, establishment of pathways to finance the urban climate research and action community, and creation and promotion of new partnerships. The paper concludes with a series of strategies and recommendations for how targeted policy adjustments can accelerate and support the production of actionable knowledge and this integrated researcher-policymaker-practitioner community.

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“…The results were surprising and potentially useful for the climate adaptation community. Although other researchers have conducted participatory exercises with climate practitioners to reflect on participation in climate adaptation planning ( Göpfert et al, 2019 ; Wamsler et al, 2019 ), to the authors' knowledge this was the first time that a participatory exercise was carried out to reflect on the suitable level of stakeholder and citizen participation in the climate adaptation planning cycle.…”

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Group discussions on how to implement a participatory process in climate adaptation planning: a case study in Malaysia

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2020

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The frequency and intensity of extreme climate events are increasing all around the world, due to climate change. Climate adaptation strategies are therefore needed, since mitigation strategies alone are not sufficient to avoid serious impacts of climate change. However, adaptation to climate change is not straightforward, as it is highly influenced by diverse and conflicting interests as well as epistemological (or scientific) uncertainties. Therefore, a minimum requirement for its success is the active participation of stakeholders and citizens in the adaptation policy cycle. This paper presents a case study on a participatory process involving civil servants from different municipalities in Malaysia, in Southeast Asia, with a view to considering the optimal level of engagement that is required for climate adaptation planning. The exercise consisted of a Focus Group session, where participants were asked to discuss the level of stakeholder and citizen participation that should be adopted within the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative. Contrary to authors' expectations, the participants tended to suggest medium to high levels of participation in the planning process. During the dialogues, a walking activity through the city, aimed at identifying hotspots of climate risks and defined as “safety walks”, was one of the ideas proposed as a high-potential participatory method, spreading in the adaptation framework. Safety walks could complement climate modelling and enhance the robustness of climate risk assessments.

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Institutionalizing climate change mitigation and adaptation through city advisory committees: Lessons learned and policy futures

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships

Group discussions on how to implement a participatory process in climate adaptation planning: a case study in Malaysia

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