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Power system planning in the energy transition era: the case of Vietnam's power development plan 8 Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Minh Ha-Duong
This review examines Vietnam's eighth Power Development Plan (PDP8), analyzing how it reveals tensions between traditional energy planning concepts and emerging realities. PDP8 aimed to balance ren...
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Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Senni Määttä, Moises Covarrubias, Vincent de Gooyert
Establishing a framework for carbon management in the European Union and aligning this with climate policy relies on collaboration between diverse actors and coordination between diverse goals. The...
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Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Nicole Nisbett, Viktoria Spaiser, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Daniel Valdenegro
It is often argued that political will is needed to make progress on responding to the climate crisis. Political will needs a narrative though, substantiating why political intervention is needed. ...
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The AFOLU sector’s role in national decarbonization: a comparative analysis of low-GHG development pathways in Brazil, India and Indonesia Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Johannes Svensson, Vidhee Avashia, Rizaldi Boer, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Michele Cotta, Carolina Dubeux, Gito Sugih Immanuel, Emilio Lebre La Rovere, Omkar Patange, Annuri Rossita, Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan
This paper analyses the role that AFOLU (agriculture, forest and other land use) plays in national deep decarbonization scenarios in Brazil, India and Indonesia between 2020 and 2050. It finds that...
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Carbon pricing under electricity market constraints: analyzing rent management dynamics in the Republic of Korea Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Asgeir Barlaup, Katja Biedenkopf
How do policymakers manage the tension between enforcing a carbon price and ensuring low-cost electricity provision? This paper answers this question in two steps. First, it combines literature on ...
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Corporate opposition to climate change disclosure regulation in the United States Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Addisu Lashitew, Youqing Mu
Extensive research shows that corporations tacitly resist climate change-related regulations even as they publicly espouse pro-climate strategies. In this study, we examine corporate responses to a...
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How do donors integrate climate policy and development cooperation? An analysis of the development aid policies of 42 donor countries Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Ida Dokk Smith, Kristine Schi Nordvold, Indra Overland, Tinatin Osmonova
This article assesses how donor countries integrate climate action into their development aid policies. An analytical framework is developed for the systematic comparison of development aid policie...
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A missing link? The role of international organizations in climate-related planned relocation Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Rachel Harrington-Abrams, Erica Bower
Planned relocation of communities to less hazardous sites is a complex process anticipated to become more prevalent as climate change accelerates. In many parts of the world, communities and nation...
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Retrofitting homes in Ontario entails significant embodied emissions: new policies needed Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Heather McDiarmid, Paul Parker
Emissions reduction policies and programs should consider both the operational emissions reduction from single family home retrofits and the embodied emissions of the retrofit materials. This is be...
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What drives adaptive behaviours during heatwaves? A systematic review with a meta-analysis Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Mathieu Bourret Soto, Marlène Guillon
Global warming will lead to more frequent and intense heatwaves across all regions of the world in the coming decades. Adaptation at the individual level plays a key role in helping populations cop...
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Carbon leakage in agriculture: when can a carbon border adjustment mechanism help? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Julio G. Fournier Gabela, Alisa Spiegel, Davit Stepanyan, Florian Freund, Martin Banse, Alexander Gocht, Mareike Söder, Claudia Heidecke, Bernhard Osterburg, Alan Matthews
Carbon leakage can undermine the effectiveness of domestic climate policies and, if perceived as a significant risk, could even prevent their implementation. This concern also extends to the agricu...
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Pathways towards low-carbon sustainable agriculture: how farmland size affects net carbon emissions Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Weilong Gao, Dongying Xie
Understanding the impact of farmland size adjustment on net crop carbon emissions (NCEs) is crucial for both effective farmland management and sustainable development, which are essential topics in...
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Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Aysha Jennath, Saikat Paul
This study explores the influence of social, environmental, governance, and other household factors on migration decision-making in hazard-affected coastal areas in southwest India. Through nearly ...
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Impact of ideology on individuals’ attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on food Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Sverker C. Jagers, Niklas Harring, Simon Matti
The expanding field of public acceptance consistently shows left-leaning ideology as a predictor of support for many climate policy instruments. However, little work has been done to investigate th...
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Relational processes for transformative climate justice policymaking: insights from a Western Australian community of practice Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Kylie Wrigley, Jaime Yallup Farrant, Brad Farrant, Emma-Leigh Synnott, Jason Barrow, Naomi Joy Godden, Lucie O’Sullivan
This article explores how relational approaches to policymaking across multiple levels and sectors of society might enable transformative climate justice. It draws on a unique case study from the s...
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Public acceptability of carbon pricing: unravelling the impact of revenue recycling Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Jeroen Barrez
Carbon pricing has emerged as a prominent policy tool to mitigate climate change due to its proclaimed high efficiency and effectiveness. However, the successful and sustainable implementation of c...
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The geography of avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management offsets: the enduring question of additionality Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Caleb Gallemore, Andrew Bowsher, Areeb Atheeque, Elias Groff, Jessica Furtado
Avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management (AD/SFM) offset projects have developed piecemeal, lacking consensus standards and receiving only quite low carbon prices. The diverse forces...
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Towards a more transformative approach to climate finance Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Peter Newell
Without deliberate and proactive attempts to redirect and regulate flows of public and private finance, achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will remain elusive. Yet, despite extensive engage...
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Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Osamu Mizuno, Naoyuki Okano
Under the UNFCCC, the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) plays a central role as a policy framework for adaptation. While significant efforts, including research, have been made on the NAP scheme (whic...
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A green hydrogen revolution in Africa remains elusive under current geopolitical realities Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Anteneh G. Dagnachew, Seleshi G. Yalew, Meron Tesfamichael, Chukwumerije Okereke, Edo Abraham
Africa's abundant renewable energy resources and vast land areas present an unprecedented opportunity for the development of a green hydrogen economy. Several countries in Africa have already initi...
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Deconstructing corporate net-zero and climate neutrality targets in the German chemical industry Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Franziska Riedel
Companies are becoming ever more present actors in climate change governance and increasing numbers of mostly multinational companies are pledging to become greenhouse gas neutral, climate neutral,...
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Public support for flood adaptation policy in Tokyo lowland areas Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Anh Cao, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki
Sea level rise induced flooding is projected to cause significant damage to the low-lying coastal areas of many countries around the planet. Many households located in vulnerable areas have already...
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EU emissions trading in the buildings sector – an ex-ante assessment Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Sibylle Braungardt, Malte Bei der Wieden, Lukas Kranzl
The EU ETS is one of the first emissions trading schemes in the world and has contributed to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors covered by the scheme in recent years. The EU h...
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State-led carbon data value chain development: a case study of the Republic of Korea Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Soh Young In, Greg Zegas, Yong Jun Baek
Introduction: This study investigates the state-led development and management of the value chain for corporate carbon performance data. By tracing the progression path of the carbon data value cha...
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Options to enhance China’s national emission trading system design for carbon neutrality Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Hongyu Zhang, Heng Liang, Da Zhang, Junling Huang, Xiliang Zhang
To better align the emissions trajectory of China’s power sector with the country’s neutrality target for 2060, China’s national Emission Trading System (ETS) needs to be enhanced. This study uses ...
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Charting a course for climate policy: blurred policy boundaries, engaging the global south, and reaching beyond incrementalism Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Navroz K. Dubash, Yacob Mulugetta, Pieter Pauw
Published in Climate Policy (Vol. 24, No. 7, 2024)
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Demand-pull and technology-push environmental innovation: a policy mix analysis on EU ETS and EU Cohesion Policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Francesco Scotti, Andrea Flori, Riccardo Crescenzi, Fabio Pammolli
Existing literature on the sustainability transition towards a low-carbon economy provides conceptual frameworks for designing combinations of policy interventions but lacks empirical evidence rega...
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Exploring representations of climate change as ecocide: implications for climate policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Filippos Proedrou, Maria Pournara
This paper explores whether, to what extent and in what ways climate change is represented as ecocide in scholarly literature. Premised upon a historical materialist lens utilizing the world system...
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An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Rhys Jones, Papaarangi Reid, Alexandra Macmillan
Climate action threatens to exacerbate existing social inequities, so it is important for justice to be at the heart of national responses to climate change. Based on an understanding of climate ch...
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Questionable at best: why links between mitigation by single actors and global temperature goals must be made more robust Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Franck Lecocq, Harald Winkler
In the academic and grey literature, near- and mid-term mitigation trajectories by single actors (countries, firms, cities or regions) are often labelled with terms including long-term temperature ...
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How aligned are industry strategy and government policy for the decarbonization of energy-intensive process industries? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Teis Hansen, Johnn Andersson, Jørgen Finstad, Jens Hanson, Hans Hellsmark, Tuukka Mäkitie, Amber Nordholm, Markus Steen
Decarbonization of energy-intensive process industries (EPIs) is a central unresolved challenge for limiting global warming to 1.5°C or well-below 2°C. In this article, we investigate the alignment...
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Residual carbon emissions in companies’ climate pledges: who has to reduce and who gets to remove? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Rosalie Arendt
Corporate carbon neutrality pledges have been criticized for their lack of integrity, especially when they are primarily based on the simple purchase of carbon offsets without making any significan...
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Addressing risks to mental health from climate change: a policy capacity analysis of England Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 John Turnpenny, Meghan Alexander
Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked crises that demand urgent responses within the health sector and beyond. Mental health challenges associated with climate change are wide-ra...
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The economics of coal phaseouts: auctions as a novel policy instrument for the energy transition Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Sugandha Srivastav, Michael Zaehringer
Background: The combustion of coal, the world's most polluting form of energy, must be significantly curtailed to limit the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C. Since carbon prici...
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Governing offshore wind: is an ‘Asia-Pacific Model’ emerging? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Llewelyn Hughes, Wenting Cheng, Thang Nam Do, Anton Ming-Zhi Gao, Jorrit Gosens, Sung-Young Kim, Thomas Longden
The Asia-Pacific region is emerging as central to the deployment of offshore wind power. Large scale offshore wind involves complex governance challenges, and governments can choose to centralize a...
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Health co-benefits and trade-offs of carbon pricing: a narrative synthesis Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Soledad Cuevas, Daniel Nachtigall, Aimee Aguilar Jaber, Kristine Belesova, Jane Falconer, Andy Haines, Tamzin Reynolds, Tobias Magnus Schuster, Sarah Whitmee, Rosemary Green
Carbon pricing is a key component of current climate policy agendas. There are a variety of societal and health impacts from carbon pricing interventions (e.g. from improved air quality). A better ...
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Principles for embedded emissions accounting to support trade-related climate policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Lee V. White, Emma Aisbett, Oscar Pearce, Wenting Cheng
Climate policy – though shaped by international regimes – has traditionally been heavily domestic in practice. Accordingly, public emissions accounting frameworks have been designed to support poli...
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EU’s sustainable finance disclosure regulation: does the hybrid reporting regime undermine the goal to reorient capital to climate action? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ian Cochran, Craig Mackenzie, Matthew Brander
Disclosure and reporting are cornerstones of the European Union’s sustainable finance agenda with the goals of reorienting capital flows towards climate and other sustainable investments and minimi...
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Granular satellite data to assess the potential for nature based solutions at a national scale: a proof of concept with data from Rwanda and Lesotho Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Bas Heerma van Voss, William Ouellette
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) form a substantial part of cost-efficient climate change mitigation options. However, public financial flows towards NbS have been limited. Among the factors impeding i...
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What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Silvia Weko, Esther Schuch
The potential for renewable energy to encourage sustainable development raises high hopes for the future among countries in the Global South. However, there has been less research on how energy tra...
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Phase-in and phase-out policies in the global steel transition Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jonas Algers, Max Åhman
To reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, global emissions should be reduced to net zero by mid-century. The steel sector is an emission-intensive industrial subsector where low-carbon production ...
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Setting the agenda for climate assemblies. Trade-offs and guiding principles Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Janosch Pfeffer
Citizens’ assemblies on climate change are increasingly popular to support democratic decision-making. Such Climate Assemblies (CAs) convene representative groups of citizens formulating policy pro...
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Green central banking: reorienting finance through a recalibration of monetary policy Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jakob Vestergaard
This paper examines how monetary policy can be calibrated to promote a greening of finance. The paper reviews existing literature and notes a tendency to either focus narrowly on one policy instrum...
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Communicating climate change as a generational issue: experimental effects on youth worry, motivation and belief in collective action Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Shane Timmons, Ylva Andersson, Peter D. Lunn
Generations differ in their contribution to climate change and susceptibility to its effects. Contextualizing climate change as an intergenerational issue may therefore alter public engagement. We ...
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Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework? Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Max van Deursen, Aarti Gupta
In this article, we examine the contestations and compromises that underpin the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, with the aim to analyze whose climate action priorities are reflec...
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Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Mariya Aleksandrova, Laura Kuhl, Daniele Malerba
Social protection has gained increasing attention in global climate policy due to its potential to contribute to low-carbon, just and climate-resilient development. Unlocking climate finance for so...
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Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hildén, Timothy R. Carter, Claire Mosoni, Samuli Pitzén, Marja Helena Sivonen
The impacts of climate change materialize in different ways and are of varying magnitudes at different locations around the world. Adaptation is a global policy challenge because some of those impa...
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Effective climate finance coordination? Stakeholder perceptions, climate change policy implementation and the underlying political economy factors in Kenya Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Millicent Apiyo Omala, Eric Kioko, Marie Gravesen
The last two decades have seen an increase in climate financing channelled to the Global South from multiple sources, putting a spotlight on climate finance coordination challenges in recipient cou...
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Increasing public support for climate policy proposals: a research agenda on governable acceptability factors Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Dirk Arne Heyen, Michael Wicki
Addressing climate change demands a varied policy toolkit, ranging from supportive measures to more assertive interventions. However, the latter, especially when impacting consumers’ daily lives, o...
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Azerbaijan: pathways for decarbonization in a global context Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Maksym Chepeliev, Andrea Liverani, Arvind Nair, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
As economies around the world are increasing their mitigation ambitions, Azerbaijan’s lingering dependency on fossil fuel exports threatens its medium – and long-term economic development prospects...
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Actors participation and power relations of REDD+ implementation in Bale Eco Region, Ethiopia Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Aklilu Bekele Chorito, Engdawork Assefa
The study focuses on actor participation and power dynamics in the REDD+ project within the Bale eco-region, a vital facet of global climate policy for sustainable forest resource management. The F...
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Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Tejal Kanitkar, Akhil Mythri, T. Jayaraman
This paper analyses 556 model scenarios assessed by IPCC’s Working Group-III for the 6th Assessment Report, which have an underlying 10-region classification and correspond to restricting warming l...
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Revisiting the role of disasters in climate policy-making Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Daniel Nohrstedt, Charles F. Parker
A general malaise exists today about the prospects for timely and effective climate action. This calls for increased attention to factors that enable climate policy change. Among these enabling fac...
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Shipping in the EU emissions trading system: implications for mitigation, costs and modal split Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jonas Flodén, Lars Zetterberg, Anastasia Christodoulou, Rasmus Parsmo, Erik Fridell, Julia Hansson, Johan Rootzén, Johan Woxenius
EU recently decided to include shipping, meaning all intra-European shipping and 50% of extra-European voyages, in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) beginning in 2024. This article provides an ...
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Pushing low-carbon mobility: a survey experiment on the public acceptance of disruptive policy packages Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Annina Thaller, Michael Wicki, Eva Fleiß, Raphaela Maier, Alfred Posch
Disruptive policy packages that fundamentally change the current unsustainable passenger transport structures and enable low-carbon mobility transformation are inevitable. This implies the use of m...
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Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Niklas Harring, Michael Ndwiga, Anna Nordén, Daniel Slunge
In recent decades, there has been increasing research interest in individuals’ support of and resistance to climate and environmental policy instruments. However, there is an empirical bias in the ...
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Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 A. K. M. Nuruzzaman, Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett
In theory, the work of microfinance organisations (MFOs) should help to reduce social vulnerability to climate change, and there is growing interest in using microfinance for this purpose. However,...
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Embedding deliberation: guiding the use of deliberative mini-publics in climate policy-making Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jacob Ainscough, Rebecca Willis
The use of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs), such as citizens’ assemblies, is becoming more common in climate policy-making across many countries. The upsurge of these methods reflects an acknowled...
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Phasing out carbon not coal? Identifying coal lock-in sources in Japan’s power utilities Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Gregory Trencher, Yuri Okubo, Akihisa Mori
Lock-in to existing assets and business practices is a major obstacle to the global objective of phasing out coal-fired power to accelerate decarbonization towards Paris Agreement goals. Japan has ...
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Economic crises as critical junctures for policy and structural changes towards decarbonization – the cases of Spain and Germany Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Germán Bersalli, Tim Tröndle, Leon Heckmann, Johan Lilliestam
Crises may act as tipping points for decarbonization pathways by triggering structural economic change or offering windows of opportunity for policy change. We investigate both types of effects of ...