DeepDCarb Publications - October 2022

Despite the proliferation of national climate change advisory bodies, very little is known about what advice they provide, to whom, and when. In ​Advising National Climate Policy Makers: A Longitudinal Analysis of the UK Climate Change Committee - recently published in Global Environmental Change - we systematically analyse all 700 of the recommendations made by the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the period 2009–20. The article shows for the first time how the CCC’s mitigation and adaptation recommendations have changed over time with respect to their addressee, sectoral focus and policy targets. We reveal that they became: more numerous per year; more cross-sectoral in their nature; clearer in targeting a specific addressee; and more focused in referring to specific policy targets. 

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