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Actors participation and power relations of REDD+ implementation in Bale Eco Region, Ethiopia Climate Policy (IF 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 6.056) 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 ...
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Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Simon Bullock, James Mason, Alice Larkin
International shipping is a major contributor to climate change. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has jurisdiction over the sector’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and in ...
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Climate policy in an era of polycrisis and opportunities in systems transformations Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Harald Winkler, Frank Jotzo
Published in Climate Policy (Vol. 23, No. 10, 2023)
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Regional economic impacts of the Los Angeles 100% renewable energy transition Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, Adam Rose, Dan Wei, David Keyser, Kevin Crofton
To help mitigate greenhouse gas (GHGs) generation from burning fossil fuels, many state and local governments are requiring utilities to dramatically increase the share of electricity generated fro...
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A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Peter K. Kruse-Andersen, Marc S. Jacobsen
We highlight a coordination problem between the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the EU's offshore renewable energy strategy. We exemplify this coordination failure by analyzing carbon leakage...
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Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kirsten EH Jenkins
The latest climate science provides stark warnings around the need for a transition away from further oil and gas exploration. Denmark, as a leader in the oil and gas transition, has already cancel...
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Net zero by choice? Oil and gas industry motivations for the energy transition and public policy in Scotland Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Eilidh Hughes, Aiora Zabala
Many oil and gas (O&G) companies began, in recent years, to increase their renewable and low-carbon energy (R&LCE) operations – crucial for climate mitigation. In Scotland, renewable electricity ge...
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Beyond emissions trading to a negative carbon economy: a proposed carbon removal obligation and its implementation Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Johannes Bednar, Justin Macinante, Artem Baklanov, James Hall, Fabian Wagner, Navraj S. Ghaleigh, Michael Obersteiner
According to most climate mitigation scenario assessments, limiting global warming to 1.5–2°C in the long run will not be possible without the extensive deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) f...
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The Green Climate Fund and private sector climate finance in the Global South Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Thomas Kalinowski
Governments and international organizations are increasingly using public funds to mobilize and leverage private finance for climate projects in the Global South. An important international organiz...
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Ambitious climate targets and emission reductions in cities: a configurational analysis Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Matteo Roggero, Jan Fjornes, Klaus Eisenack
Cities have become increasingly vocal in addressing climate change, crafting climate mitigation strategies, and committing to ambitious emission reductions. Previous studies found no evidence that ...
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Enabling gender and social inclusion in climate and agriculture policy and planning through foresight processes: assessing challenges and leverage points Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Edwige Marty, Alcade C. Segnon, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Sabrina Trautman, Sophia Huyer, Laura Cramer, Everisto Mapedza
Scenario-guided foresight processes are increasingly used to engage a broad range of stakeholders in sharing knowledge, reflecting, and setting priorities to respond to present and future climate c...
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The land sector in the low carbon emission strategies in the European Union: role and future expectations Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Giulio Di Lallo, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Ekaterina Tarasova, Michael Köhl, Lucia Perugini
The Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector (LULUCF) role is of critical importance in contributing to the ambitious targets set by the European Union (EU) to reduce by 55% net greenhouse gas...
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The politics of phasing out fossil fuels: party positions and voter reactions in Norway Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Florian Egli, Nielja Knecht, Fride Sigurdsson, Sebastian Sewerin
To mitigate climate change, fossil fuels need to be phased out, but political parties may fear a voter backlash when implementing the required policies. We investigate whether such backlash occurre...
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The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: implications on Brazilian energy intensive industries Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sigit Perdana, Marc Vielle, Thais Diniz Oliveira
As an instrument supporting the realization of EU climate neutrality targets by 2050 and encouraging decarbonization outside its borders, the current proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CB...
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The climate test: a tool to evaluate alignment of energy infrastructure decisions with climate goals Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Michele L. Bustamante, Ann Alexander, Christina Swanson
Although rapid transition away from fossil fuels will be required to limit warming to any agreed upon level, long-lived fossil energy infrastructure buildout continues largely unabated. Many nation...
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Contribution of perceptions to the acceptability of adaptation tools to sea level rise Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Cécile Bazart, Thierry Blayac, Hélène Rey-Valette
Using a perception survey of 782 residents of 227 French coastal communities, this study examines the underlying motives for the acceptability of property relocation policies in response to sea lev...
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Stakeholder-based modelling in climate change planning for the agriculture sector in Argentina Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Verónica Gutman, Federico Frank, Adrian Monjeau, Pablo L. Peri, Daniel Ryan, José Volante, Luciana Apaza, Virginia Scardamaglia
The development of long-term scenarios to outline pathways for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 has become a standard practice in climate change policy planning. In Argentina, a modelling proces...
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Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Christian Bretter, Felix Schulz
Decarbonization policies require public support to be implemented and to remain in legislation. Examinations of public support for climate policies tend to focus on a small number of policy instrum...
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Power in climate change policy-making process in South Asia Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sumit Vij, Ryan Stock, Asif Ishtiaque, Maaz Gardezi, Asim Zia
Climate change policies are prepared in a power-loaded environment, where different policy actors interact to meet their personal or collective interests. This paper argues that the ‘power interpla...
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Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Lucy Njuguna, Robbert Biesbroek, Todd Crane, Peter Tamás
Adaptation tracking is crucial for understanding progress in responding to climate change impacts across space and time. However, adaptation tracking is constrained by the lack of agreement on how ...
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Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Diana Reckien, Robbert Biesbroek, Brian Mantlana, Karin Pfeffer
Climate change is a key socioeconomic and environmental concern in South Africa. The South African government introduced several climate change initiatives to address the impacts of climate change,...
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Comparison of carbon management and emissions of universities that did and did not adopt voluntary carbon offsets Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Emily Lewis-Brown, Neil Jennings, Morena Mills, Robert Ewers
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere and stabilize natural carbon sinks has led to the development of many carbon management measures, increasingly ...
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Agricultural emission reduction targets at country and global levels: a bottom-up analysis Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Lærke Godsk Jensbye, Wusheng Yu
Few countries have declared sector-specific emission reduction targets in agriculture, making it difficult to construct and assess realistic climate mitigation scenarios for analytical and policyma...
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Beyond divest vs. engage: a review of the role of institutional investors in an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Clara McDonnell, Joyeeta Gupta
Institutional investors, who control as much as $154 trillion globally, may play an important role in shaping the energy transition as major stakeholders in fossil fuel producing, distributing and ...
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Human rights in climate change adaptation policies: a systematic assessment Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Alexandra Lesnikowski, Sébastien Jodoin, Jean-Philippe Lemay, Verity Thomson, Kasia Johnson
Human rights have potential to enhance adaptation because they reflect internationally agreed upon standards of human dignity, aim to advance formal and substantive forms of equality, and can be us...
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Designing effective digital-based delivery of climate information for smallholder farmers: a mini meta-analysis on drivers and barriers Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Mori W. Gouroubera, Albert Kora Sabi, Traoré Kabirou Bio Comada, Faridah Dosso, Sènami A. Fatondji, Morrisson Boladji Gouthon, Rachelle P. Houaga
Providing climate information services (CIS) to smallholder farmers using digital tools is widely considered to be one of the promising ways to increase the adoption of climate information (CI). Ho...
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Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Luciana Iocca, Teresa Fidélis
Climate change has become a central concern on the international political agenda, challenging the decision-making of different levels of administration and types of actors. Indigenous Peoples and ...
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The anchoring effect of climate change acts: a policy streams analysis of Ireland’s climate act reform Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Ian Bailey, Robert Nutkins, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg
The number of political jurisdictions introducing climate change acts (CCAs) has grown in recent years. As framework legislation, CCAs seek to exert anchoring effects on climate policy development ...
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Understanding vulnerability and building resilience in small-scale fisheries: the case of Davao Gulf, Philippines Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Edison D. Macusi, Dindo O. Diampon, Erna S. Macusi
Global fisheries face a significant crisis, including overexploitation of fishing grounds, marine pollution, and climate change impacts. This paper aims to assess the effects of climate change impa...
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Evaluating long-term low emission development strategies and implications for the remaining global carbon budget Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Clàudia Cruanyes, Olga Alcaraz, Bàrbara Sureda
The imperative to halt global warming extends beyond human boundaries, intertwining with the urgent need to achieve net-zero emissions. To this end, the Paris Agreement (PA) states that all Parties...
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Exploring the democracy-climate nexus: a review of correlations between democracy and climate policy performance Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Daniel Lindvall, Mikael Karlsson
ABSTRACT In order to explore the strengths and weaknesses of democracies in mitigating climate change, this article presents a review of more than two decades of research on the democracy-climate nexus. It studies 72 identified articles and book chapters in which correlation analyses between indicators of democracy and climate policy performances have been conducted. The review confirms that democracies
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Retraction: Pushing low-carbon mobility: a survey experiment on the public acceptance of disruptive policy packages Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-27
We, the Authors, Editors and Publisher of Climate Policy, have retracted the following article:Thaller, A., Wicki, M., Fleiß, E., Maier, R., Posch, A. (2023). Pushing low-carbon mobility: A survey ...
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Who believes in green growth? Strategic framing and technology leadership in the UNFCCC negotiations Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Leonard Schmidt, Maria Apergi, Laima Eicke, Silvia Weko
Policymakers and governments increasingly frame climate protection in terms of green growth, arguing that continued economic growth and climate protection are complementary and mutually beneficial....
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Developing an Ad Hominem typology for classifying climate misinformation Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Sergei A. Samoilenko, John Cook
ABSTRACT Misinformation produced by various interest groups is a significant contributing factor to public confusion about climate policy. Character assassination against climate scientists and policymakers is the most common type of misinformation strategy used by contrarians in climate debates (Coan, T. G., Boussalis, C., Cook, J., & Nanko, M. O. (2021). Computer-assisted classification of contrarian
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Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Monica DiLeo
ABSTRACT While climate change has been a public policy issue for decades, central banks have only recently considered it relevant to their objectives. Beginning in 2015, the Bank of England (BoE) was among the first movers to do so. This article illustrates how two institutional features were key in enabling this response. First, the macroprudential framework that developed in the wake of the Global
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Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Charlotte Streck
ABSTRACT The 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and Paris Agreement (PA) are highly complementary agreements where each depends on the other’s success to be effective. The GBF offers a very specific framework of interim goals and targets that break down the objective of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) into a decade-spanning work plan. Comprised of 10 sections – including
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Climate adaptation research priorities and funding: a review of US federal departments’ climate action plans Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Nicolena vonHedemann, Tamera Breidenbach, Clint P. Carney, Leisl Carr Childers, Dominique M. David-Chavez, Caroline A. Havrilla, Mindy Hill, Hussam Mahmoud, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Courtney A. Schultz, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann
National-level governments are directing and funding climate adaptation research, which is essential to informing effective and equitable adaptation practices. We sought to understand how United St...
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Nature to the rescue: past drivers and future potential of the Australian land-based carbon offsets market Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Greg Barber, Andrew Edwards, Kerstin K. Zander
ABSTRACT Large quantities of ‘negative emissions’ will be required to meet the 1.5°C temperature target under the Paris agreement. As nations consider more ambitious emissions reductions goals, policy makers, carbon market participants and environmental advocates need to estimate the potential scale of nature-based climate solutions (NCS), against the opportunity cost of current land use. In this study
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State policy and local resilience: evaluating state policies for flood resilience in the Great Lakes region of the United States Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Sara Hughes, Caroline Resor, Heather Newberry
Flood resilience policy and planning are highly localized in the United States (US) and many parts of the world, with local governments responsible for a wide range of land use and infrastructure i...
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Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Angel Hsu, Marco Schletz
The rise of digital technologies poses opportunities and challenges for transparency and accountability in climate governance. This paper examines their impact on information flows and accountabili...
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Investor compensation for oil and gas phase out decisions: aligning valuation methods to decarbonization Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Anatole Boute
Decisions by states to cancel oil and gas licenses in the transition to net-zero emissions can trigger investment arbitration claims. Given the massive damages that arbitration tribunals can award ...
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The pending commitment and ongoing political divide on carbon pricing in Japan Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Aitong Li
New discussions on carbon pricing are underway in Japan. In 2012, Japan introduced a nationwide carbon tax named the Global Warming Countermeasure Tax. However, a gap remains between the price leve...
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Do climate risks influence foreign direct investment inflows to emerging and developing economies? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Sasidaran Gopalan, Bhavya Gupta, Ramkishen S. Rajan
ABSTRACT Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are considered to be an important source of private financing for several emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). However, the high susceptibility of these countries to climate change impacts vis-à-vis their developed counterparts may reduce their attractiveness as a favourable destination for FDI inflows. EMDEs with significant exposure to
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Left behind: emerging oil and gas producers in a warming world Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Valérie Marcel, Deborah Gordon, Naadira Ogeer, Ekpen Omonbude
The push for decarbonization is dampening resource prospects in nations with undeveloped oil and gas. It is critical to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the petroleum sector, but there ar...
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A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Uchook Duangbootsee, Ivan Bimbilovski, Piyathida Thathong, Thanh Mai Ha
Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is among the top policy priorities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in their food, agriculture, and forestry sectors. However, the strategi...
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Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of methane regulations in British Columbia, Canada Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Marie France Johnson, Martin Lavoie, Katlyn MacKay, Mallory Long, David Risk
Many jurisdictions are introducing methane reduction policy as part of climate commitments, with a focus on the oil and gas supply chain. Periodic comprehensive leak detection and repair (LDAR) sur...
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Low-carbon urban experiments from vision to reality: a systematic review of the literature from 2005 to 2020 Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Haiyan Lu, Yang Fu, Changyou Xia, Chengze Lu, Bo Wang, Qihui Yang, Dong Wang
In recent decades, many cities have launched low-carbon pilot schemes to explore feasible local policies and actions that can be replicated on a larger scale to reduce the intensity of carbon emiss...
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The history of net zero: can we move from concepts to practice? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jessica F. Green, Raúl Salas Reyes
Net zero has become the new organizing principle of climate politics. Though the adoption of net zero targets has created optimism in the climate regime, there remain significant concerns that it i...
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Sharing the decarbonisation effort: getting Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East countries on the road to global carbon neutrality Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Despina Yiakoumi, Constantinos Taliotis, Theodoros Zachariadis, Steven Griffiths
To achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals of keeping the global temperature rise well below 2 °C, or even better below 1.5 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels by the end of this century, countries n...
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Economic incentives for coastal homeowner adaptation to climate change Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Debra Javeline, William Kakenmaster, Angela Chesler
Communities are already grappling with climate change’s acute effects, evidenced by the growing frequency and intensity of extreme events worldwide. Strategies to encourage adaptation to climate ch...
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Farmers’ perceptions, determinants of adoption, and impact on food security: case of climate change adaptation measures in coastal Bangladesh Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Md. Sadique Rahman, Farhad Zulfiqar, Hayat Ullah, Sushil K. Himanshu, Avishek Datta
Coastal households in Bangladesh are exposed to a variety of extreme climate events, which represent a major threat to food security. However, there is a dearth of empirical research on the adoptio...