Distinguishing policy surveillance from policy tracking: transnational municipal networks in climate and energy governance

Francesco, Fabrizio De; Leopold, Lucas; Tosun, Jale

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2020.1785280

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“…Challenges related to climate change and energy problems, which encourage more and more participants to participate in management mechanisms of information exchange and mutual study of policies, are described by such modern foreign researchers as: De Francesco F., Leopold L., and Tosun J. [7].…”

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The european green deal: shaping the future of the eastern partnership

Tsebenko

Ivasechko²,

Turchyn³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The article has focused on the European Green Deal [EGD], its goals, key tasks and components. Particular attention has been paid to the specifics of the implementation of the EGD in the partner countries of the Eastern Partnership [EaP]. The author’s approach to singling out clusters of the EaP countries on the integration of their green policies, taking into account the level of convergence of the EaP countries environmental and climate policies and the peculiarities of the implementation of the EGD, has been presented. The potential of the countries of the region in terms of readiness to switch to green energy has been identified on the basis of the Energy Transition Index and the dynamics of the EaP Environmental and Climate Policy Sub-Index. The degree of correlation between the general degree of convergence of the EaP countries to the European Union and the degree of convergence of the EaP countries environmental and climate policies to the EGD has been determined. The ways of transformation of the strategy of formation and implementation of the EGD for the Eastern Partnership countries, taking into account the current challenges, have been outlined. Thorough conclusions and recommendations for the EaP countries in the context of EGD implementation have been presented.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The european green deal: shaping the future of the eastern partnership

Tsebenko

Ivasechko²,

Turchyn³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…[45] Compared to the above functions, soft or hard regulation of the participants can entail that they commit themselves to adopting and implementing measures, which can be tailor-made to the individual participant or represent a jointly formulated measure regarding given sustainability issues. [46] Monitoring and service provision can be directed toward the TGI participants or external audiences, such as states and how well they comply with the pledges they made to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change [47] or how they support the implementation of transnational forest projects. [7,48,49] For example, transnational city networks on climate change, such as the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, have instruments in place for policy tracking and surveillance, which facilitate the implementation of ambitious local-level climate policies and measures.…”

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Country‐Specific Participation Patterns in Transnational Governance Initiatives on Sustainability: Preliminary Insights and Research Agenda

Tosun¹,

Saad²,

Glückler³

et al. 2023

Global Challenges

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Transnational public–private governance initiatives (TGIs) have become key elements in global governance, especially in the governance of sustainability. Pertinent research has concentrated on why TGIs have emerged as well as on their impacts on political outcomes and questions related to their legitimacy. This instructive literature has predominantly focused on TGIs as entities in their own right. This explorative study contributes to the literature by advocating a complementary analytical perspective that pays attention to domestic‐level patterns of participation in TGIs and national factors that determine which types of organizations (public, business, or civil society) participate in TGIs. It is shown for six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru) that there exists cross‐country variation in the composition patterns in 29 TGIs on sustainability, suggesting that national conditions matter for how organizations participate in them. By improving the knowledge of the national conditions, a more complete analysis of participation and the effectiveness of TGIs can be provided in global sustainability governance. In this spirit, in a last step, an agenda is developed for guiding future research on this topic.

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“…Future research should focus on the real-world impacts and outcomes of policy monitoring, whether hard, soft or variants of both. Do the naming and shaming effects actually materialise or are the actors in fact too overloaded for monitoring to achieve its desired effect (see Tosun et al, 2020)? To what extent do legalisation, increasing the level of provision, publicity, as well as linking and incorporation generate tangible governance and policy effects?…”

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Towards harder soft governance? Monitoring climate policy in the EU

Schoenefeld

Jordan

2020

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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In the emerging debate on 'harder soft governance,' the relationship between hard and soft elements has not been fully explored. This paper addresses this gap by looking at the changing nature of policy monitoring, a quintessentially soft governance mechanism. It focuses on climate change, a dynamic site of policy expansion and experimentation in which the EU has historically been an international frontrunner. This paper finds that a range of 'harder' elements have been added to the EU's climate policy monitoring over time, including more explicit legal provisions, greater external publicity, and more concrete links to other policy processes. These changes have emerged from politically sensitive negotiations between many actors, principally the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Environment Agency (who together have generally favoured greater hardening), and Member States (some of whom preferred softer governance) in the context of changing international opportunities and constraints. Moving forward, this paper highlights the need for more research on the efficacy of policy monitoring, especially with respect to the EU's significantly more ambitious long-term decarbonisation targets.

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Distinguishing policy surveillance from policy tracking: transnational municipal networks in climate and energy governance

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

The european green deal: shaping the future of the eastern partnership

The european green deal: shaping the future of the eastern partnership

Country‐Specific Participation Patterns in Transnational Governance Initiatives on Sustainability: Preliminary Insights and Research Agenda

Towards harder soft governance? Monitoring climate policy in the EU

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