Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

Harrison, Kathryn; Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh

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“…By focusing on the domestic factors that determine NAMA engagement while also taking into account domestic interpretations of international factors, IBSA's NAMA engagement is approached from a domestic politics perspective (Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010;Putnam, 1988;Risse, Ropp, & Sikkink, 1999;Vogel, 1997). The variance in IBSA's NAMA engagement internationally, the influence of IBSA's domestic institutional responses on NAMA engagements, and how these engagements in turn influence IBSA's institutional arrangements form the core of this inquiry.…”

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“…regulative, normative, and institutional capacity, are identified as important in the NAMA literature as well. Formal institutions can facilitate or refrain the pursuance of ideas or material interests (Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010), informal institutions such as norms can influence actor behaviour by guiding people's actions and behaviour in groups (Finnemore, 1996), and organizations can determine the effectiveness of implementing regulatory measures and normative expectations by making use of organizational structures and procedures. This approach facilitates consideration of formal and informal interpretations of institutions and of how regulative directives and normative expectations are translated into implementation.…”

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“…The mainstream understanding of domestic climate change politics used to be largely driven by studies of industrialised countries (Compston & Bailey, 2008;Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010;Selin & VanDeever, 2009;Sugiyama & Takeuchi, 2008;Wurzel & Connelly, 2010) largely comprising single-country case studies (Purdon, 2015;Steinberg & Vandeveer, 2012). Several recent initiatives are starting to share developing country perspectives on mitigation efforts in a systematic manner (Bailey & Compston, 2012;Garibaldi et al, 2013;Held et al, 2013a;Tyler et al, 2013;WWF, 2010).…”

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“…However, our understanding of these variances is largely informed by studies based on industrialised countries (Compston & Bailey, 2008;Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010). Of late there is a growing emphasis on using customised frameworks to study and compare climate policies in a broader set of developing countries (Held, Roger, & Nag, 2013a), more specifically, in rapidly industrializing countries or emerging economies (Bailey & Compston, 2012;Fuhr & Lederer, 2009), also while paying equal attention to cases of climate governance in both developed and developing countries (Bang, Underdal, & Andresen, 2015;Nachmany et al, 2015).…”

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“…Similarly, domestic processes influence the efficacy of transnational standards' implementation (Malets, 2014) as well as the resistance to and localization of transnational norms (Cortell & Davis, 2005;Zimmermann, 2016). This calls for studying domestic explanations of political change (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith, 2012;Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010;Putnam, 1988;Stålgren, 2006).…”

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National Appropriateness of International Climate Policy Frameworks in India, Brazil, and South Africa

Upadhyaya¹

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LIST OF TABLESThe thesis provides answers to these questions by studying domestic engagements with Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in three emerging economiesIndia, Brazil, and South Africa. The thesis specifically studies how these engagements were influenced by the domestic institutional context provided by national climate policy, norms, and institutional capacity in the three countries. Drawing upon the variations in the engagements with nationally appropriate mitigation actions, made visible by use of the policy cycle as a heuristic device, the thesis informs the implementation of another nascent, yet prevalent, international climate policy framework -Nationally Determined Contributions.The thesis identifies how engagements with nationally appropriate mitigation actions varied in India, Brazil, and South Africa in agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation. In cases where international support is considered crucial for taking mitigation actions, external factors such as lack of clarity on definitional aspects and availability of international support can hamper the prospects of such frameworks at the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages. Efforts to engage with these frameworks under this uncertainty are held back by non-decisions, overriding national climate policy, as well as by uneven inter-ministerial coordination. The thesis argues that successful implementation of upcoming Nationally Determined Contributions will be influenced by a country's ability to align them with its national climate policy, localization of the transnational norms, and the extent to which efforts to enhance institutional capacity for coordinating the implementation of national climate policy are made. In sum, the effective implementation of International Climate Policy Frameworks will be dependent on the willingness of the state to provide oversight and coordination, and clarity on the availability of international support.Keywords: Policy process, Institutions, Domestic Politics, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, National, Climate Policy, India, Brazil, South Africa, Institutional Capacity, Norms, Nationally Determined Contributions.ii LIST OF APPENDED PAPERSThis thesis is based on the following papers. The papers are referred to by their roman numbers in the thesis. Author's contributionsPaper I was co-authored with Navroz K. Dubash, Niklas Höhne, and Markus Hagemann. Prabhat Upadhyaya, the author of this thesis, conducted the background research, codeveloped the methodology, coordinated the data collection and data analysis for the paper, personally collected data for all the countries profiled in Asia and Africa, and construction of the database.The author is solely responsible for Paper II.For papers III and IV, the author conducted the empirical work and preliminary analysis, contributed to developing the analytical framework, coded the material, and contributed to the overall writing. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis thesis is a product of rendezvous and conversations...

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Climate science, Russian politics, and the framing of climate change

Rowe

2013

WIREs Climate Change

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Historical studies have shown how Soviet scientists figured in politics in unexpected ways. However, little research has been done on the interplay between scientific expert knowledge and contemporary Russian policymaking. This article reviews existing research on a question central to understanding Russia's positions on climate change: What is the relationship between expert knowledge and politics in Russia today? We first address the narratives and practices that have emerged around environmental problems and the science–policy interface in Russia and the Soviet Union more generally and then provide a brief overview of Russia's international and domestic climate politics. How climate change has been framed in the Russian media and the role that scientists have played in these framings and in the Russian policymaking process more generally is then examined. Conceptually, this review draws upon scholarly work in Science and Technology Studies and international relations on the politics of scientific reception. WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:457–465. doi: 10.1002/wcc.235 This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

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Fighting the future: The politics of climate policy failure in Australia (2015–2020)

Crowley

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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This Focus review provides an overview of climate politics and policy under the Turnbull (2015–2018) and Morrison (2018) conservative Coalition governments following the dismantling of carbon pricing in 2014. Without effective policies to reduce emissions in place, Australia will fail to meet its 2030 Paris emissions reduction target. Climate policy failure is framed in these terms. The paper outlines Australia's climate policy challenge and the macroconstraints upon action, before detailing commentary and analysis of climate politics and policies post 2015. In reviewing accounts of the Turnbull and Morrison government's climate policy efforts, the paper draws attention to the handbrake of conservative politics upon decisive action. It finds that Australia's climate policy is not only structurally constrained by its reliance upon fossil fuels, but has been politically constrained by conservatives within the Coalition government since 2015. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

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Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

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National Appropriateness of International Climate Policy Frameworks in India, Brazil, and South Africa

National Appropriateness of International Climate Policy Frameworks in India, Brazil, and South Africa

Climate science, Russian politics, and the framing of climate change

Fighting the future: The politics of climate policy failure in Australia (2015–2020)

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