DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1248887
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84995436855
论文题名: The challenges of monitoring national climate policy: learning lessons from the EU
作者: Schoenefeld J ; J ; , Hildén M ; , Jordan A ; J
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2018
卷: 18, 期: 1 起始页码: 118
结束页码: 128
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate policy
; EU
; Monitoring Mechanism
; policy evaluation
; policy monitoring
; UNFCCC
Scopus关键词: climate change
; environmental monitoring
; environmental policy
; European Union
; policy implementation
; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
; Europe
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: One of the most central and novel features of the new climate governance architecture emerging from the 2015 Paris Agreement is the transparency framework committing countries to provide, inter alia, regular progress reports on national pledges to address climate change. Many countries will rely on public policies to turn their pledges into action. This article focuses on the EU’s experience with monitoring national climate policies in order to understand the challenges that are likely to arise as the Paris Agreement is implemented around the world. To do so, the research employs–for the first time–comparative empirical data submitted by states to the EU’s monitoring system. Our findings reveal how the EU’s predominantly technical interpretation of four international reporting quality criteria–an approach borrowed from reporting on GHG fluxes–has constrained knowledge production and stymied debate on the performance of individual climate policies. Key obstacles to more in-depth reporting include not only political concerns over reporting burdens and costs, but also struggles over who determines the nature of climate policy monitoring, the perceived usefulness of reporting information, and the political control that policy knowledge inevitably generates. Given the post-Paris drive to achieve greater transparency, the EU’s experience offers a sobering reminder of the political and technical challenges associated with climate policy monitoring, challenges that are likely to bedevil the Paris Agreement for decades to come. Policy relevance The 2009 Copenhagen summit ushered in a more bottom-up system of international climate governance. Such systems typically depend on strong monitoring approaches to assess past performance and estimate future national contributions over time. This article shows why decision makers at multiple governance levels should pay serious attention to empirical data on the experiences and challenges that have emerged around monitoring in the EU, a self-proclaimed climate leader. The analysis highlights key political and administrative challenges that policy makers will likely encounter in implementing climate policy monitoring and ensuring transparency in the spirit of the Paris Agreement. © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80217
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作者单位: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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Schoenefeld J,J,, Hildén M,et al. The challenges of monitoring national climate policy: learning lessons from the EU[J]. Climate Policy,2018-01-01,18(1)