Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Oct. 15, 2023

Abstract The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, addressing emissions trading, renewable energy, energy efficiency, more. In 2019, Commission—the EU's executive arm—published Green Deal (EGD), an overarching framework achieve goal neutrality by 2050. EGD aims push EU far beyond incremental development. this article, we ask: does represent break from past patterns governance? We argue that maintains several patterns, but nevertheless breaks other established trends. review insights politicization new institutionalist theoretical lenses help us understand these findings. reveal certain tensions challenges inherent approach—around speed coherence, effectiveness just transition—that highlight future research needs, raise questions about ability implement its goals. This article is categorized under: Policy Governance > Multilevel Transnational Climate Change

Language: Английский

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Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition

Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(2), P. 235 - 251

Published: May 1, 2023

Focusing on two key instruments, the Just Transition Fund and Social Climate Fund, this article assesses to what extent EU’s pledge for a ‘just transition’ has potential foster greater social justice while implementing European Green Deal. We analyse related objectives, policy tools patterns of political conflict find that both Funds have narrow objectives anchored in reactive logic complementing existing investment initiatives with focus reskilling workforce hit by decarbonisation. Both instruments rely multi-level aiming generate green growth, combined targeted compensation more vulnerable. This, we argue, is not conducive just transition addresses intersection environmental problems holistic way. Finally, various fault lines pose threat EU action will be insufficient tackle exacerbated inequalities future.

Language: Английский

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The Role of AI in Improving Environmental Sustainability: A Focus on Energy Management

Energies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 17(3), P. 649 - 649

Published: Jan. 30, 2024

This research addresses the increasing importance of understanding how Artificial Intelligence can facilitate transition companies to a Circular Economy model. study focuses on energy management, examining its impact efficiency and emissions across multi-case analysis 18 projects in diverse sectors. The findings indicate that positively influences both variables, with variations applications Notably, significantly enhances four out six sectors, achieving over 5% improvement half projects. Regarding emissions, positive effects are observed 15 projects, resulting reductions seven cases. plays pivotal role reduction Design Energy some 20% reductions. Additionally, this explores improved affects strategic business such as cost, quality, delivery time. contributes reducing occupational risks, particularly those associated chemical biological agents. Although managers satisfied, measures need be taken overcome lack employee acceptance. These great interest stakeholders involved integration into companies.

Language: Английский

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Does anxiety increase policy learning?

Policy Studies Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 52(3), P. 603 - 622

Published: Feb. 23, 2024

Abstract Does anxiety affect how public officials process policy information? It is often argued that the increasing number of failures can be explained by a lack learning decision makers. While previous studies show socioeconomic and partisan variables are related to perception information, little attention has been paid role emotions, such as anxiety, in policymaking process. In this paper, we investigate impact on local office holders at individual level Switzerland. We introduce Marcus' Affective Intelligence Model —which examines emotions individuals' information processing—to literature. To test expectations model, draw novel experimental data collected among elected from 26 Swiss cantons. experiment, randomly display anxiety‐inducing images along with information. provide evidence positive causal effect learning. Considering potential moderators effect, relationship not conditioned strength priors or perceived complexity policies. However, these substantially correlated Our findings have important implications for better understanding influences policymaking.

Language: Английский

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Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(6)

Published: July 7, 2024

Abstract Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address important gap, we perform a review 141 articles on politicians and published between 1985 2021. We find growing area; almost half were after 2018. Existing fragmented focused small number democracies in Global North, United States, Kingdom, Germany, Norway Australia being most‐heavily studied. Substantively, analyze politicians' motivations, incentives barriers they face, strategies employ block/enable action. evidence both intrinsically extrinsically motivated. Intrinsic motivations often derive from formative experiences occurring prior entering politics. Extrinsic most commonly include publics/voters external events. Importantly, intrinsic extrinsic vary different political contexts, indeed these two may pull directions. Politicians various strategies—such as reframing—to achieve their desired policy outcomes. Moreover, relation are static, vary. conclude that there urgent need for how enabled and/or constrained by system characteristics. Research especially called South less democratic systems, well investigating (not) decarbonizing difficult‐to‐abate sectors reconcile sometimes‐competing demands mitigation adaptation. This article categorized under: Policy Governance > National Climate Change Multilevel Transnational

Language: Английский

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Food waste tectonics: Points of friction between policy push and practice pull in council-led household-food-waste interventions in Australia

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 357, P. 120717 - 120717

Published: April 1, 2024

Household food waste is increasingly recognised as a global wicked problem for its greenhouse gas emissions, economic damage, and resource loss. Although targeted in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, countries can only respond according to their capacity. For Australia, national policy has put pressure on states territories divert away from landfill into nascent circular economy. councils, this means implementing FOGO (Food Organics/Garden Organics) kerbside collection. Despite funding infrastructure development, many are resisting. Framed by tenets of diffusion, paper presents results nationwide exploratory survey aimed at identifying how why council-based services staff resist, emulate or lead implementation. By assessing participants current systems attitudes towards household management, found costs, contamination, capacity were key concerns. However, responses these varied considerably despite similarities situation, often relating more collaborative across services, council, councillors. This recognises that conducive environment change urgently needed Australia achieve organics diversion targets shift It provides starting point further research complex nuanced dynamics between council implementations, external drivers paradigms individual perceptions.

Language: Английский

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Measuring China’s Policy Stringency on Climate Change for 1954–2022

Scientific Data, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Efforts on climate change have demonstrated tangible impacts through various actions and policies. However, a significant knowledge gap remains: comparing the stringency of policies over time or across jurisdictions is challenging due to ambiguous definitions, lack unified assessment framework, complex causal effects, difficulty in achieving effective measurement. Furthermore, China's governance expected address multiple objectives by integrating main effects side achieve synergies that encompass environmental, economic, social impacts. This paper employs an integrated framework comprising lexicon, text analysis, machine learning, large-language model applied multi-source data quantify policy (PSCC) from 1954 2022. To effective, robust, explainable measurement, Chain-of-Thought SHAP analysis are into framework. By framing PSCC varied sub-dimensions covering mitigation, adaptation, implementation, spatial difference, this dataset maps government's can be used as robust variable support series downstream analysis.

Language: Английский

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Seeking common ground? Heterogeneous support for carbon pricing and climate policies across audience segments

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 122, P. 103993 - 103993

Published: Feb. 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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The Interaction of Institutional Quality, Economic Complexity, and Carbon Dioxide Emission: An Empirical Examination for China and Pakistan

Sustainable Futures, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7, P. 100222 - 100222

Published: June 1, 2024

Environmental quality (EQ) emerged as a top priority for the governments of China and Pakistan both countries are at potential risk environmental degradation. Therefore, it is critical to identify factors that adversely affect alleviate detrimental consequences global warming. To mitigate negative carbon (CO2) emissions in complex environments, institutions play role sustainable economic development. Thus, this study made pioneering effort discover integrated link between complexity (EC) with interaction institutional (IQ). Furthermore, unique modeling framework treasure better comparison generalizability outcomes. Time series analysis was conducted from 1996 2021 using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach. The results revealed EC raises over time Pakistan. Due disparity IQ Pakistan, only lowers China. However, extremely high evaporate effect interventions on because nations major polluters, has little influence strengthens relationship CO2 while used an term. industries must exploit poor governance limited laws or regulations, resulting greater emissions. reduce greenhouse gases boosting development, policymakers should strengthen institutions, encourage environmentally friendly methods, foster innovation technologies low footprints.

Language: Английский

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Climate Action through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling: Country-Comparative Insights: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(3-4), P. 215 - 232

Published: July 3, 2024

Elected politicians and civil servants are key in developing climate policy. The articles this special issue investigate factors that induce politico-administrative actors to adopt policies dismantle anti-climate advance decarbonisation. Politico-administrative have predominantly expanded policy raised ambition recent decades. However, economic crises weakening public support may cause dismantling of hamper ambition. Against backdrop, also study propel dismantling. Together, the contributions show interactions between publics, organised interests, international organisations shape change.

Language: Английский

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