​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.

'Climate Action through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling: Country-Comparative Insights'  is a new special issue published in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. It is edited by Simon Schaub, Jale Tosun and Andrew Jordan, with the collection arising from a DeepDCarb workshop held in Mannheim in October 2022.

The articles in this special issue investigate factors that induce politico-administrative actors to adopt climate policies and dismantle anti-climate policies to advance decarbonisation. Together, the contributions show that interactions between politico-administrative actors and publics, organised interests, and international organisations shape climate and anti-climate policy change.