The role of cities in multi-level climate governance: local climate policies and the 1.5 °C target

Fuhr, Harald; Hickmann, Thomas; Kern, Kristine

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2017.10.006

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“…() and Fuhr et al. () are among the few to engage explicitly with the question of scale in the understanding and promotion of LCUIs. Starting from the premise that the municipal level is increasingly recognised as an appropriate level for addressing climate change and promoting low‐carbon urban development (p. 2), van Doren et al.…”

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“…When scale is discussed, it is typically within a hierarchical conception largely interchangeable with organisational levels (Hansen & Coenen, 2015;Moloney & Horne, 2015). Recent contributions by van Doren et al (2016) and Fuhr et al (2018) are among the few to engage explicitly with the question of scale in the understanding and promotion of LCUIs. Starting from the premise that the municipal level is increasingly recognised as an appropriate level for addressing climate change and promoting low-carbon urban development (p. 2), van Doren et al (2016) argue that LCUIs cannot play an important role in global climate change mitigation efforts without being extended and applied beyond "islands of excellence."…”

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Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology

Bouzarovski

Haarstad

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low‐carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long‐standing development of more nuanced conceptions of scale within Human Geography. This paper aims to advance a relational understanding of scale in the analysis and evaluation of low‐carbon urban initiatives ( LCUI s). We wish to lay the path towards an innately geographical conceptualisation of low‐carbon urban transformations more generally, in which cities are not seen as rigid and passive physical containers for decarbonisation initiatives, but rather as key nodes within vibrant socio‐technical networks operating across multiple material sites. Using a case study of the transnational and translocal REACH (Reduce Energy use And Change Habits) project funded by the European Union as illustration, we argue that low‐carbon urban transformations are immanently constituted of three sets of relational processes across scale, involving (1) politicisation, (2) enrolment and (3) the hybridisation of human and material agencies.

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Section: Explicit Engagements With Questions Of Scale and Space In mentioning

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Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology

Bouzarovski

Haarstad

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…In a welcome contribution to such a research agenda on scaling, Fuhr et al (2017) propose a new tripartite typology of 'embedded upscaling': horizontal upscaling (between actors at the same level, e.g. In a welcome contribution to such a research agenda on scaling, Fuhr et al (2017) propose a new tripartite typology of 'embedded upscaling': horizontal upscaling (between actors at the same level, e.g.…”

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“…For effective climate governance at every scale, it is crucial that the challenges associated with scaling up experiments are not underestimated but instead addressed head on. In a welcome contribution to such a research agenda on scaling, Fuhr et al (2017) propose a new tripartite typology of 'embedded upscaling': horizontal upscaling (between actors at the same level, e.g. between cities), vertical upscaling ('upwards' from city level to a national level, national to the global level, and directly between city and global level bypassing the national) and hierarchical upscaling (from the global level 'downwards' to the national and city level).…”

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Networking Cities after Paris: Weighing the Ambition of Urban Climate Change Experimentation

Smeds

Acuto

2018

Global Policy

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Over the past few decades, cities have repeatedly demonstrated high levels of ambition with regard to climate action. Global environmental governance has been marked by a proliferation of policy actions taken by local governments around the world to demonstrate their potential to advance climate change mitigation and adaptation. Leading ‘by example’ and demonstrating the extent of action that it is possible to deliver, cities have aspired to raise the ambition of national and international climate governance and put action into practice via a growing number of ‘climate change experiments’ delivered on the ground. Yet accounts of the potential of cities in global environmental governance have often stopped short of a systematic valuation of the nature and impact of the networked dimension of this action. This article addresses this by assessing the nature, and challenges faced by, urban climate governance in the post‐Paris era, focusing on the ‘experimentation’ undertaken in cities and the city networks shaping this type of governance. First, we unpack the concept of ‘urban climate change experimentation’, the ways in which it is networked, and the forces driving it. In the second and third parts of the article, we discuss two main pitfalls of networked urban experimentation in its current form, focusing on issues of scaling experiments and the nature of experimentation. We call for increased attention to ‘scaling up’ experiments beyond urban levels of governance, and to transformative experimentation with governance and politics by and in cities. Finally, we consider how these pitfalls allow us to weigh the potential of urban climate ambition, and consider the pathways available for supporting urban climate change experimentation.

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“…Overall, similar to the study of Reckien et al (2015), factors identified in the literature can be categorized into three types: institutional, socioeconomic, and environmental. Among them, institutional factors were the most common in the literature (IPCC 2007, Corfee-Morlot et al 2009, Bulkeley et al 2011, Duguma et al 2014, Fuhr et al 2018, Grafakos et al 2018.…”

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Which are the factors influencing the integration of mitigation and adaptation in climate change plans in Latin American cities?

Kim¹,

Grafakos

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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As cities are major contributors to GHG emissions and places where people face multiple climate change impacts, their critical role in responding to climate change is becoming increasingly evident. Cities are developing climate change action plans (CCAPs) focusing their efforts on reducing GHG emissions and adapting to climate change impacts. Despite having the highest urban population in the world, there are a few studies on urban CCAPs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. This study assessed the level of integration of mitigation and adaptation (IMA) in urban climate change plans across 44 major LAC cities. The level of IMA was measured by the utilization of the IMA index, a comprehensive evaluation framework of indicators. The results showed that more than half of the examined LAC cities have a moderate level of IMA. The study further explored and statistically analyzed 42 institutional, socioeconomic and environmental factors to identify which ones potentially drive or constrain the level of IMA. Five out of 42 factors were found to have a significant impact (p-value<0.05) on the IMA index. Of the five significant factors, memberships in regional networks FLACMA and UCCI respectively, and donor agencies' contribution to the development of urban policies had a positive impact on IMA index; while the national climate fund and membership in the global network Urban LEDS had a negative impact. This suggests that cities are most likely to integrate mitigation and adaptation when the development of their CCAPs are supported by donor agencies or collaborating with other cities. The results highlight the important role of donor agencies, international organizations and cities' networks on providing the necessary capacity to cities for addressing climate change in an integrated manner.

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The role of cities in multi-level climate governance: local climate policies and the 1.5 °C target

Cited by 133 publications

References 34 publications

Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology

Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology

Networking Cities after Paris: Weighing the Ambition of Urban Climate Change Experimentation

Which are the factors influencing the integration of mitigation and adaptation in climate change plans in Latin American cities?

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