Post-2012 climate policy dilemmas: a review of proposals

Kuik, Onno; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.; Berkhout, Frans; Biermann, Frank; Bruggink, Jos; Gupta, Joyeeta; Tol, Richard S.J.

doi:10.3763/cpol.2007.0333

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“…46,47 Most articles focused on market instruments; very few discussed regulatory instruments. 48 There was also a wave of interest in the potential of policies that can be taken at local government level. 49 The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives had already been politically engaging local governments in different parts of the developed and developing world to participate in climate policy.…”

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A history of international climate change policy

Gupta

2010

WIREs Climate Change

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This article presents an overview of the history of international climate change policy over the last 30 years, divided into five periods. It examines the pre-1990 period, the period leading up to the adoption of the Climate Change Convention, the period of the Kyoto Protocol until US withdrawal, the period thereafter focusing on the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, and the post-2008 period that coincides with the financial crisis. For each period, it discusses the relevant science, actors, and coalitions, the agreements emerging in that period, and the key issues and the major trends. In doing so, it examines the evolving articulation of the leadership paradigm, which is the centerpiece of the discussion on how climate change should be addressed. The article shows (1) the increasing complexity of the definition of the climate change issue from an environmental to a development issue; (2) the inability of the developed countries to reduce their own emissions and raise funds commensurate with the nature of the problem and their initial commitments;(3) the increasing engagement of different social actors in the discussion and, in particular, the gradual use of market mechanisms in the regime; (4) the increasing search for alternative solutions within the formal negotiations-such as the identification of nationally appropriate mitigation actions for the developing world, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the use of geo-engineering solutions; and (5) the search for solutions outside the regime-the mobilization of sub-national policies on climate change, litigation, and markets on biofuels.

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Section: The Discourses: Leadership Competitionmentioning

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A history of international climate change policy

Gupta

2010

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Only a small number of the more discursive studies argue that more radical problem framings are needed-such as a mitigation approach based on personal carbon budgets. The conservatism of most evaluations serves to further embed a dominant framing of the climate problem and the policy responses to itreducing emissions by pricing climate damages and implementing policy integration (Kuik et al 2008). However, evaluations also acknowledge that there are often political obstacles to policy formation, and show that (unquantified) claims to cobenefits have frequently been necessary to justify policy action.…”

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Navigating the dilemmas of climate policy in Europe: evidence from policy evaluation studies

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Climate change is widely recognised as a 'wicked' policy problem. Agreeing and implementing governance responses is proving extremely difficult. Policy makers in many jurisdictions now emphasise their ambition to govern using the best available evidence. One obvious source of such evidence is the evaluations of the performance of existing policies. But to what extent do these evaluations provide insights into the difficult dilemmas that governors typically encounter? We address this question by reviewing the content of 262 evaluation studies of European climate policies in the light of six kinds of dilemma found in the governance literature. We are interested in what these studies say about the performance of European climate policies and in their capacity to inform evidence-based policy-making. We find that the evaluations do arrive at common findings: that climate change is framed as a problem of market and/or state failure; that voluntary measures tend to be ineffective; that market-based instruments tend to be regressive; that EUlevel policies have driven climate policies in the latecomer EU Member States; and that lack of monitoring and weak enforcement are major obstacles to effective policy implementation. However, we also conclude that the evidence base these studies represent is surprisingly weak for such a high profile area. There is too little systematic climate policy evaluation work in the EU to support systematic evidence- based policy making. This reduces the scope for sound policy making in the short run and is a constraint to policy learning in the longer term.

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“…104 They favour negotiating -99 Barriaux (2010). 100 For an overview, see Kuik et al (2008). • issue-specific agreements • agreements which target specific industries or specific policies, or • agreements involving only a few like-minded countries.…”

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International Climate Change Policy: Where do we Stand?

Bassewitz¹

2013

Climate Change: International Law and Global Governance

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The article begins with a definition of what is meant by climate change, from the perspective of an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication. The second section identifies the major legal instruments of international climate change policy adopted before 2012, followed by an analysis of the post-2012 international legal framework in the third section. The next three sections investigate what policy instruments and methods individual countries use to tackle global warming. Two industrialised societies are looked at in detail, namely the European Union, which is a Kyoto Protocol Annex I party, and the United States, the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but not a party to the Kyoto Protocol. The investigation then directs its attention to a member of the BASIC group (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) of newly industrialised countries, namely China, as a Kyoto Non-Annex I party and the highest current emitter of GHGs. In the last section, the discussion turns to the developing world, with a special focus on least-developed countries.

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Post-2012 climate policy dilemmas: a review of proposals

Cited by 22 publications

References 54 publications

A history of international climate change policy

A history of international climate change policy

Navigating the dilemmas of climate policy in Europe: evidence from policy evaluation studies

International Climate Change Policy: Where do we Stand?

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