scholarly journals Methods to Evaluate Electricity Policy from Climate Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147
Author(s):  
Liga Rozentale ◽  
Dagnija Blumberga
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Level ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Abstract Nowadays government policies to mitigate climate change are of a wide variety and they are evaluated before and after implementation. Much research has been conducted on how climate change policy will affect the climate. However, there is very little research on policies that are not intended to mitigate or reduce climate change and which, from the policy makers’ point of view, have no relation to climate change. The goal of this study is to review the electricity policy in Latvia and the aspects that can be evaluated under this policy, and apply multiple-criteria analysis to determine on what spheres the electricity policy leaves the most positive impact – is it climate or are they consumers and other electricity market players? The outcome of the analysis shows that, at the national level, the most positive impact on climate is provided by the National Energy and Climate Plan, indicating that climate is taken into consideration mostly only under complex multi-sectoral legislation.

scholarly journals State Leadership in U.S. Climate Change and Energy Policy: The California Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Mazmanian ◽  
John L. Jurewitz ◽  
Hal T. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Goals

It is a long-held belief among scholars and practitioners that the State of California is a notable subnational leader in environmental and climate change policy. This article focuses primarily on four essential contextual factors that explain why and how within the United States’ federal system of government California has become such an important leader, performing far in excess of the national government and most other states. These essential factors are preferences, authority, capacity, and effectiveness. The article then moves to the multifaceted implementation strategy California policy makers have employed to realize their environmental goals. Finally, despite the history of strong leadership, the state continues to face a host of significant challenges in realizing its ambitious climate change goals for the coming decades.

scholarly journals Global Recognition that Ecosystems Are Key to Human Resilience in a Warming World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Seddon ◽  
Elizabeth Daniels ◽  
Rowan Davis ◽  
Rian Harris ◽  
Xiaoting Hou-Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Warming World

Ecosystems are not merely vulnerable to climate change but, if sustainably restored and protected, are a major source of human resilience. Not only is the science evidence-base for this perspective growing rapidly, but ecosystems are featuring with increasing prominence in global climate change policy. Of 167 climate pledges submitted by the signatories of the Paris Climate Change Agreement (representing 194 nations), 103 include commitments to the restoration, management or protection of natural habitats in their adaptation strategies (of which 70 are aimed at protecting human communities from climate change hazards, i.e. ecosystem-based adaptation). A further 27 describe similar actions in their mitigation plans. In total, 65% of Paris Agreement signatories commit to restoring and/or protecting natural ecosystems. However, commitments rarely translate into robust science-based targets. As the world takes stock of the Agreement in 2018 and climate pledges are revised, we urge the science community to work closely with policy makers to identify meaningful adaptation targets that benefit both people and the ecosystems on which they depend.

Transitioning to a Lower Carbon Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Bankes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policy ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Capacity Market ◽  
Phase Out ◽  
Lower Carbon

This chapter discusses the legal and policy issues associated with adopting an aggressive transition to renewable and lower carbon fuels in Alberta’s electricity market. The chapter describes the evolution of Alberta’s electricity sector and restructuring that will involve the addition of a capacity market to supplement the existing energy only market. The chapter examines Canada’s international commitments with respect to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, coal phase-out, and developments in climate change and energy efficiency policy at both the federal level and for Alberta, which currently has a carbon-intensive energy mix. The chapter then presents Alberta’s current climate change policy and the Climate Leadership Plan, focussing on the implications of this policy for the electricity sector and for market design within that sector.

scholarly journals Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Seddon ◽  
Elizabeth Daniels ◽  
Rowan Davis ◽  
Alexandre Chausson ◽  
Rian Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Nationally Determined Contributions ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Non-technical summary Ecosystems across the globe are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as are the communities that depend on them. However, ecosystems can also protect people from climate change impacts. As the evidence base strengthens, nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly prominent in climate change policy, especially in developing nations. Yet intentions rarely translate into measurable, evidence-based targets. As Paris Agreement signatories revise their Nationally Determined Contributions, we argue that NbS are key to meeting global goals for climate and biodiversity, and we urge researchers to work more closely with policy-makers to identify targets that benefit both people and ecosystems.

Innovation and Climate Change Policy

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S Gans
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Relative Demand ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Innovation Incentives

This paper examines whether climate change policies will induce innovation in environmentally friendly technologies. The model demonstrates that a tighter emissions cap will reduce the scale of fossil fuel usage and that this will diminish incentives to improve fossil fuel efficiencies. In addition, such policies may stimulate the relative demand for innovations that improve the efficiency of alternative energy but carbon scarcity may diminish innovation incentives overall. Only for technologies that directly abate carbon pollution will there be an unambiguously positive impact on innovation. These results have implications for climate change targets and the design of climate change policy. (JEL O31, Q54, Q55, Q58)

scholarly journals Is there now a role for economic instruments in New Zealand’s domestic climate change policy?

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Ward
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Economic Instruments ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Economic Instrument

In late December 2005, the reconstituted Labour-led government announced that a carbon charge would not be introduced in 2007. Indeed, it now appears that there will be no broad-based economic instrument to mitigate climate change before 2012. This story made the world’s climate change press. A carbon charge has been on New Zealand’s policy agenda since the mid-1990s, and until very recently had been supported by both centre-right and centre-left governments. It was the centrepiece of the climate change policy announced by the Labour led government in 2002 when it ratified the Kyoto Protocol. So why the abrupt change of policy?

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