DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.980211
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84952298542
论文题名: Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe
作者: Casado-Asensio J ; , Steurer R
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2016
卷: 16, 期: 1 起始页码: 88
结束页码: 108
语种: 英语
英文关键词: climate action plans
; climate change mitigation
; climate policy frameworks
; governance
; integrated strategies
; Kyoto Protocol
; multi-sectoral strategies
; national mitigation strategies
; policy coordination
; policy integration
; UNFCCC
Scopus关键词: action plan
; climate change
; environmental policy
; governance approach
; Kyoto Protocol
; mitigation
; policy making
; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
; Western Europe
; Equidae
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: Climate change mitigation is a wicked problem that cuts horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government. To address it effectively, governments around the world, in particular in the EU, have developed several generations of multi-sectoral national mitigation strategies (NMS) since the early 1990s. Although NMS became the main effort to systematically coordinate mitigation policies, few works have studied them comparatively so far. The present article fills this gap by analysing how the EU-15 group of countries operationalized climate protection through NMS. First, we introduce the three roles policy strategies usually aim to fulfil: besides being policy documents they also represent governance processes (supposed to coordinate sectoral implementation), and capacity-building efforts. Empirically, we then explore the rationale, origins and prevalence of NMS. Subsequently, we characterize them as policy documents (with regards to their contents and structures) and as governance processes that address capacity building only implicitly. Based on existing assessments we finally review some performance indications of NMS. We find that in particular second- and third-generation NMS aimed to take their governance function seriously but resembled ‘lacklustre bookkeeping' of emissions, targets and mitigation options. Instead of approximating NMS towards their obviously overcharging governance function, we suggest to recalibrate them towards their communication and capacity-building function in a way that goes beyond bookkeeping. Policy relevance The present article shows that NMS fail to effectively govern climate change mitigation across a broad range of sectoral policy domains. Since most European countries have adopted not one but up to three generations of NMS since the 1990s, this finding is highly relevant for them – and for all others aiming to adopt similarly broad strategies. Instead of piling one strategy on top of another irrespective of their implementation, and instead of abolishing mitigation strategies altogether, we recommend recalibrating them towards what they can realistically accomplish: effective communication and capacity building so that NMS can advance from lacklustre bookkeeping to actively promoting a government-wide climate change mitigation vision. The article can help governments to realise that renewing integrated strategies such as NMS without overhauling them comes close to flogging a dead horse. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80395
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作者单位: InFER Institute of Forest, Environmental, and Natural Resource Policy, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Feistmantelstr. 4, Vienna, Austria
Recommended Citation:
Casado-Asensio J,, Steurer R. Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe[J]. Climate Policy,2016-01-01,16(1)