CLIMATE POLICY IN CRISIS AND RECOVERY

This paper focuses on the implications of the economic crisis and recession of 2008–2009 for climate change and related policy responses. Stressing that even prolonged output losses make very little difference to appropriate emissions reduction objectives, the paper argues that a cautious shift towards a more aggressive path of carbon pricing need not impede recovery and could make a valuable contribution to addressing looming fiscal challenges. Well-designed and monitored "green" stimulus measures can help sustain aggregate demand during the downturn, while increased climate-related public spending will likely be needed into the longer-term. However, it is critical to avoid undue reliance on spending rather than tax measures, particularly as the recovery strengthens.

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PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories

Earth System Science Data ◽

10.5194/essd-10-1427-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 1427-1438 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Louise Jeffery ◽

Johannes Gütschow ◽

Robert Gieseke ◽

Ronja Gebel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

United Nations ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Open Data ◽

Emissions Reduction ◽

Annual Basis ◽

Global Warming Potentials ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Processing Steps

Abstract. All Annex I Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to report domestic emissions on an annual basis in a “Common Reporting Format” (CRF). In 2015, the CRF data reporting was updated to follow the more recent 2006 guidelines from the IPCC and the structure of the reporting tables was modified accordingly. However, the hierarchical categorisation of data in the IPCC 2006 guidelines is not readily extracted from the reporting tables. In this paper, we present the PRIMAP-crf data as a re-constructed hierarchical dataset according to the IPCC 2006 guidelines. Furthermore, the data are organised in a series of tables containing all available countries and years for each individual gas and category reported. It is therefore readily usable for climate policy assessment, such as the quantification of emissions reduction targets. In addition to single gases, the Kyoto basket of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4, HFCs, PFCs, SF6, and NF3) is provided according to multiple global warming potentials. The dataset was produced using the PRIMAP emissions module. Key processing steps include extracting data from submitted CRF Excel spreadsheets, mapping CRF categories to IPCC 2006 categories, constructing missing categories from available data, and aggregating single gases to gas baskets. Finally, we describe key aspects of the data with relevance for climate policy: the contribution of NF3 to national totals, changes in data reported over subsequent years, and issues or difficulties encountered when processing currently available data. The processed data are available under an Open Data CC BY 4.0 license, and are available at https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2018.001.

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European policy responses to climate change: progress on mainstreaming emissions reduction and adaptation

Regional Environmental Change ◽

10.1007/s10113-015-0801-6 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 949-959 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Frans Berkhout ◽

Laurens M. Bouwer ◽

Joanne Bayer ◽

Maha Bouzid ◽

Mar Cabeza ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Emissions Reduction ◽

European Policy ◽

Policy Responses

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One Atmosphere: Integrating Air Pollution and Climate Policy and Governance

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos12121570 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 1570

Author(s):

Eric Zusman ◽

Charlotte Unger ◽

Nathan Borgford-Parnell ◽

Kathleen A. Mar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Rigorous Research ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Stakeholder Cooperation ◽

Support Cost

Few challenges pose a greater threat to a healthy planet and people than air pollution and climate change. Over the past three decades, research has demonstrated that integrated solutions to air pollution and climate change can yield co-benefits that support cost-effective, coherent policies. However, research on co-benefits has yet to generate policy responses consistent with this promise. This paper argues that realizing this potential requires more rigorous research on how governance affects the opportunities and incentives to align the interests of government agencies, scientists, and other stakeholders at multiple levels. The article proposes a “One Atmosphere approach” consisting of three building blocks to strengthen that alignment: (1) continually incorporating and strategically timing the introduction of integrated visions; (2) reforming governance arrangements to encourage interagency collaboration and multi-stakeholder cooperation; and (3) supporting integrated visions and institutional cooperation with standardized metrics and assessment methods. This article is also the introduction to the Special Issue ‘One Atmosphere: Integrating Air Pollution and Climate Policy and Governance’, aimed at fostering the multidisciplinary dialogue needed for more integrated air pollution and climate change policies.

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PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories

10.5194/essd-2018-3 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

M. Louise Jeffery ◽

Johannes Guetschow ◽

Robert Gieseke ◽

Ronja Gebel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

United Nations ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Open Data ◽

Emissions Reduction ◽

Annual Basis ◽

Global Warming Potentials ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Processing Steps

Abstract. All Annex I Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to report domestic emissions on an annual basis in a 'Common Reporting Format' (CRF). In 2015, the CRF data reporting was updated to follow the more recent 2006 guidelines from the IPCC and the structure of the reporting tables was modified accordingly. However, the hierarchical categorisation of data in the IPCC 2006 guidelines is not readily extracted from the reporting tables. In this paper, we present the PRIMAP-crf data as a re-constructed hierarchical dataset according to the IPCC 2006 guidelines. Furthermore, the data is organised in a series of tables containing all available countries and years for each GHG individual gas and category reported. It is therefore readily usable for climate policy assessment, such as the quantification of emissions reduction targets. In addition to single gases, the Kyoto basket of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4, HFCs, PFCs, SF6, and NF3) is provided according to multiple global warming potentials. The dataset was produced using the PRIMAP emissions module. Key processing steps include; extracting data from submitted CRF Excel spreadsheets, mapping CRF categories to IPCC 2006 categories, constructing missing categories from available data, and aggregating single gases to gas baskets. Finally, we describe key aspects of the data with relevance for climate policy; the contribution of NF₃ to national totals, changes in data reported over subsequent years, and issues or difficulties encountered when processing currently available data. The processed data is available under an Open Data CC BY 4.0 license, and available at doi:10.5880/pik.2018.001.

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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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What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s153759272000479x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Lauren Honig ◽

Amy Erica Smith ◽

Jaimie Bleck

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Religious Groups ◽

State Repression ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

History Of ◽

Muslim Communities ◽

Critical Link

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of the most impacted populations. Yet even communities that are greatly concerned about climate change may remain on the sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with a long history of environmental activism and high vulnerability to climate change. We foreground efficacy—a belief that one’s actions can create change—as a critical link transforming concern into action. However, that link is often missing for marginalized ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Analyzing interviews, focus groups, and survey data, we find that Muslims express much lower efficacy to address climate change than other religious groups; the gap cannot be explained by differences in science beliefs, issue concern, ethnicity, or demographics. Instead, we attribute it to understandings of marginalization vis-à-vis the Kenyan state—understandings socialized within the local institutions of Muslim communities affected by state repression.

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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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