Climate Action Through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling: A Workshop

The DeepDCarb team organized a workshop on climate policy expansion and/or dismantling in Mannheim in October 2022. It aimed at advancing the state of the art on these topics and showcase it in a series of papers which will eventually be published in a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

The comparative study of climate policy has advanced a lot in recent years but has mostly concentrated on the adoption of new targets, policies and policy instruments to curb emissions. Often it is politically more feasible to adopt new targets, policies and instruments than to weaken or entirely dismantle policies that are already in place (e.g., fossil fuel subsidies).

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