DOI: 10.1002/wcc.427
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84991408251
论文题名: The Paris Agreement and the inherent inconsistency of climate policymaking
作者: Geden O
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2016
卷: 7, 期: 6 起始页码: 790
结束页码: 797
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate research
; Climate stabilization
; Climate targets
; Long term planning
; Long-term policies
; Policy discourse
; Public domains
; Temperature increase
; Technology
; environmental policy
; international agreement
; policy analysis
; policy approach
; policy making
英文摘要: Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the actual meaning of many crucial aspects of that agreement still remains fairly unclear. This has lead to extensive framing efforts, for example on the 5-year review mechanism. What has been largely overlooked, however, are the decisions on quantified climate stabilization targets. Until now, there has been no serious questioning of the intention to limit the temperature increase to 2 or even 1.5 °C. Not that many in the climate research community seem to grasp the political rationalities behind the setting of long-term policy targets. Even the mainstream policy discourse assumes consistency between talk, decisions, and actions. Accordingly, a decision on a certain climate target is presented and perceived as an act of deliberate choice, that will be followed up with the deployment of appropriate measures. In real-world policymaking, however, many decisions are viewed as independent organizational products, not necessarily requiring appropriate action. Despite the cultural norm of consistency, inconsistency is an inherent and inevitable feature of policymaking. This is particularly problematic in public domains with a deliberately transformative agenda like climate policy, which is characterized by long-term planning and a high demand for scientific advice. But if consistency of talk, decisions, and actions cannot be assumed, then concepts like evidence-based policymaking become essentially devoid of meaning. Simply delivering the best available knowledge to policymakers might even have counterintuitive effects. In the future, policy-driven climate researchers and advisors must critically assess how their work is actually being interpreted and used in policymaking processes. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:790–797. doi: 10.1002/wcc.427. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76205
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Research Division EU/Europe, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany
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Geden O. The Paris Agreement and the inherent inconsistency of climate policymaking[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2016-01-01,7(6)