Best Practices in Effective Climate Policy Implementation, Governance, and Accountability: The UK Committee on Climate Change

Abstract In light of increasing pressure to deliver climate action targets, and the growing role of citizens in raising the importance of the issue, deliberative democratic processes (e.g. Citizen Juries and Citizen Assemblies) on climate change are increasingly being used to provide a voice to citizens in climate change decision-making. Through a comparative case study of two processes that ran in the UK in 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change), this paper investigates how far Citizen Assemblies and Juries on climate change are increasing citizen engagement on climate change and creating more citizen-centred climate policy-making. Interviews were conducted with policy-makers, councillors, professional facilitators and others involved in running these processes to assess motivations for conducting these, their structure and the impact and influence they had. The findings suggest the impact of these processes is not uniform: they have an indirect impact on policymaking by creating momentum around climate action and supporting the introduction of pre-planned or pre-existing policies rather than a direct impact by being truly being citizen-centred policymaking processes or conducive to new climate policy. We conclude with reflections on how these processes give elected representatives a public mandate on climate change, that they help to identify more nuanced and in-depth public opinions in a fair and informed way, yet it can be challenging to embed citizen juries and assemblies in wider democratic processes.

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The effect of climate policy on the impacts of climate change on river flows in the UK

Journal of Hydrology ◽

10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.046 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 510 ◽

pp. 424-435 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Nigel W. Arnell ◽

Matthew B. Charlton ◽

Jason A. Lowe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Policy ◽

River Flows ◽

The Uk ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

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Climate policy, regulation and governance: introduction

Journal of the British Academy ◽

10.5871/jba/009s10.001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9s10 ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Simon Goldhill ◽

Georgie Fitzgibbon

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Civil Society ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Food System ◽

Agroforestry Systems ◽

Regulatory Systems ◽

The Uk ◽

Climate Change Governance ◽

Policy Solutions

Regulatory systems and innovative policy solutions are addressing the current and future effects of climate change. The articles presented here range from broad views on climate change governance in agroforestry systems and insights from climate-funded food system projects, to the nationally specific, exploring regulatory contexts in the UK, China, and Mexico. They consider state, private, and civil society actors. Together, they demonstrate the importance of innovative policy solutions to climate regulatory and governance problems.

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Climate change impacts pest and beneficial insects over the last half century: Insights from the UK

10.1603/ice.2016.105031 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

James R. Bell

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Half Century ◽

Beneficial Insects ◽

The Uk

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The Controllability Precautionary Principle: Justification of a Climate Policy Goal Under Uncertainty

10.1093/oso/9780198813248.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Eugen Pissarskoi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Precautionary Principle ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Policy Goal ◽

The Precautionary Principle ◽

Climate Change Policies

How can we reasonably justify a climate policy goal if we accept that only possible consequences from climate change are known? Precautionary principles seem to offer promising guidelines for reasoning in such epistemic situations. This chapter presents two versions of the precautionary principle (PP) and defends one of them as morally justifiable. However, it argues that current versions of the PP do not allow discrimination between relevant climate change policies. Therefore, the chapter develops a further version of the PP, the Controllability Precautionary Principle (CPP), and defends its moral plausibility. The CPP incorporates the following idea: in a situation when the possible outcomes of the available actions cannot be ranked with regard to their value, the choice between available options for action should rest on the comparison of how well decision makers can control the processes of the implementation of the available strategies.

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A room with a view: a special issue with a special perspective

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x21000103 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 205-210

Author(s):

Simone Borghesi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Present Article ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Emissions Trading ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Special Issue ◽

Climate Policies

AbstractThe present article describes the main insights deriving from the papers collected in this special issue which jointly provide a ‘room with a view’ on some of the most relevant issues in climate policy such as: the role of uncertainty, the distributional implications of climate change, the drivers and applications of decarbonizing innovation, the role of emissions trading and its interactions with companion policies. While looking at different issues and from different angles, all papers share a similar attention to policy aspects and implications, especially in developing countries. This is particularly important to evaluate whether and to what extent the climate policies adopted thus far in developed countries can be replicated in emerging economies.

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‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/09500170211024138 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095001702110241

Author(s):

Jamie Redman

Keyword(s):

Policy Implementation ◽

Young Men ◽

Survival Strategies ◽

Street Level ◽

The Uk

Since the mid-1980s, out-of-work benefit receipt in the UK has been increasingly governed by a ‘workfarist’ mesh of conditionality and activation policies. A wealth of research has found that conditionality and activation policies trigger a range of harmful outcomes for benefit claimants. However, this research largely ignores how claimants may struggle against these policies to eschew harmful outcomes. Drawing on longitudinal interviews with 15 young men, this article demonstrates how claimants can subvert policy implementation to prioritise their own needs and interests. It is concluded that claimant struggles against policy implementation most accurately reflect survival strategies and are predominantly rooted in the ‘material nexus’ of class-based inequalities in capitalist societies.

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