ABSTRACT

In 2020, Denmark passed a substantive Climate Change Act (CCA), replacing largely symbolic legislation from 2014. Using the multiple streams framework, this contribution compares the emergence of both CCAs across the problem, policy and politics streams. Whilst new governments proposed both CCAs following elections, the levels of politicisation of climate could not have differed more. While the 2014 Act was relatively low-key, in 2020 policy change was accompanied by a citizens’ initiative campaign and subsequent political party competition on climate policies during the 2019 parliamentary elections. In a key difference, the 2020 CCA remained a political issue even after the policy change process had moved from agenda setting to decision making, whereas political momentum ebbed earlier in 2014. We conclude that the high level of politicisation of climate issues in 2019–2020 contributed greatly to a substantive CCA, but that further improvements are necessary to meet increasingly demanding mitigation targets.

摘要

2020年，丹麦通过了实质性的《气候变化法案》（CCA），从2014年开始取代了具有象征意义的立法。使用多流框架，该贡献比较了CCA在问题，政策和政治流中的出现。虽然新政府在选举后都提议了这两个CCA，但气候政治化的程度再也不能有太大差异。虽然2014年法案相对低调，但2020年的政策变化伴随着公民的倡议运动以及随后在2019年议会选举中针对气候政策的政党竞争。关键的不同之处在于，即使在政策变更过程已从议程制定转移到决策制定之后，2020 CCA仍然是一个政治问题，而政治势头在2014年初有所减弱。