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National Citizen’s Climate Assemblies (NCCAs) been held in many European countries over the past decade. They have been commended by deliberative theorists and practitioners as a means to address the perceived inability of current democratic systems to deal effectively with climate change. Yet it is only recently that such claims have been explored empirically.
Climate advisory bodies have been established in over 40 countries. However, the existing literature focuses on their formation and remits, not their unfolding policy impact. A new article in Climate Policy - 'The policy impact of climate change advisory bodies: government responses to the UK Climate Change Committee’s recommendations, 2009–2020' - addresses this important gap by reporting the findings of a novel analysis of the UK Government’s responses to the UK Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) mitigation and adaptation recommendations published in its annual progress reports, taking written acceptance as a proxy for policy impact.
Earlier this year, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis published a special issue 'Climate Action through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling: Country-Comparative Insights' which arose out of a workshop DeepDCarb hosted in Mannheim in 2022. In the video below, Simon Schaub - the lead guest editor - shares the main findings of the issue.
In Climate Policy Ambition: Exploring A Policy Density Perspective, we measure climate policy density from 2000-2019 by drawing on three publicly available databases: Climate Change Laws of the World, Climate Policy Database and the Policies and Measures Database. All three measurements show an upward trend in the adoption of climate policy. However, our empirical comparison also reveals differences between the measurements with regard to the degree of policy expansion and sectoral coverage, which are due to differences in the type of policies in the databases. Since the choice of the database and the resulting measurement of policy density ultimately depend on the questions posed by researchers, we conclude by discussing whether some questions are better answered by some measurements than others.
A number of papers by DeepDCarb team members have recently been published.
'The political challenges of deep decarbonisation: Towards a more integrated agenda'' appears in the inaugural issue of the newly launched Climate Action journal. As the societal commitment to deep decarbonisation will eventually emerge from the interaction between policies, publics and politicians, in this paper we review the existing literatures on these three to identify salient research gaps. Our findings show that existing work has largely focused on one aspect in isolation. Thus, we set out a more integrated research agenda that explores the three-way interaction these, arguing that greater integration is required to understand better the conditions under which different political systems address societal commitment dilemmas. |
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