Does mitigation shape adaptation? The urban climate mitigation-adaptation nexus

Lee, Taedong; Yang, Hyuk; Blok, Anders

doi:10.1080/14693062.2020.1730152

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“…Runhaar et al 2017). Scholars have only recently sought to examine both issues simultaneously and study the interaction, interplay and integration of local mitigation and adaptation policies (Grafakos et al 2020;Lee et al 2020). These discussions identified synergies and co-benefits as well as trade-offs and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation (Grafakos et al 2018(Grafakos et al , 2020Hamin and Gurran 2009;Landauer et al 2015;Sharifi 2020Sharifi , 2021.…”

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“…These discussions identified synergies and co-benefits as well as trade-offs and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation (Grafakos et al 2018(Grafakos et al , 2020Hamin and Gurran 2009;Landauer et al 2015;Sharifi 2020Sharifi , 2021. They emphasize the mitigation-adaptation nexus, focus on the organizational institutionalization of climate mitigation and adaptation policies, develop indicators for the level of integration, discuss the role of national mandates and focus on sectoral policies (Keskitalo et al 2016;Reckien et al 2018;Grafakos et al 2019Grafakos et al , 2020Göpfert et al 2019aGöpfert et al , b, 2020Lee et al 2020;Landauer et al 2019).…”

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“…Keskitalo et al 2016). In addition, cities with an established monitoring system for mitigation are more likely to adopt adaptation policies, and established mitigation policies are more important than local climate risks and vulnerabilities when cities decide on joining municipal adaptation networks like Mayors-ADAPT (Lee et al 2020). However, most recent research has focused on only a limited number of cities (Landauer et al 2019), or examined cities in specific countries such as Italy and Spain (Pasimeni et al 2019), or compared municipalities in those countries that have national mandates (Denmark) with those that do not (Finland) (Keskitalo et al 2016).…”

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“…Despite the importance of municipalities in climate policy and the extent to which some cities have engaged in the area, the literature suggests that their activities are sometimes constrained. First, adaptation efforts often lag behind mitigation activities (Guyadeen 2019;Heidrich et al 2013;Lee et al 2020). Second, the ambitions and activities of different cities on climate issues can vary enormously, with bigger municipalities often found to be more active (Araos et al 2016;Reckien et al 2015;Salvia et al 2021).…”

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“…Beatley 2012) and overviews of the approaches and plans of various different cities (Heidrich et al 2013;Olazabal et al 2014;Reckien et al 2014Reckien et al , 2018Salvia et al 2021), as well as rankings for either mitigation (Salvia et al 2021;Wang et al 2020) or adaptation (Araos et al 2016;). However, scholars have only recently begun to examine how mitigation and adaptation may relate to each other (Göpfert et al 2019 a;Grafakos et al 2019Grafakos et al , 2020Landauer et al 2019;Lee 2020;Pasimeni et al 2019), and, to our knowledge, there is no existing framework to rank cities on both mitigation and adaptation. This gap might be explained by the challenges in selecting appropriate indicators and collecting robust and assessable data to measure and compare mitigation and adaptation activities.…”

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Climate mitigation and climate adaptation are crucial tasks for urban areas and can involve synergies as well as trade-offs. However, few studies have examined how mitigation and adaptation efforts relate to each other in a large number of differently sized cities, and therefore we know little about whether forerunners in mitigation are also leading in adaptation or if cities tend to focus on just one policy field. This article develops an internationally applicable approach to rank cities on climate policy that incorporates multiple indicators related to (1) local commitments on mitigation and adaptation, (2) urban mitigation and adaptation plans and (3) climate adaptation and mitigation ambitions. We apply this method to rank 104 differently sized German cities and identify six clusters: climate policy leaders, climate adaptation leaders, climate mitigation leaders, climate policy followers, climate policy latecomers and climate policy laggards. The article seeks explanations for particular cities’ positions and shows that coping with climate change in a balanced way on a high level depends on structural factors, in particular city size, the pathways of local climate policies since the 1990s and funding programmes for both climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments’ reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have found a set of common factors which relate to these questions, but also mixed evidence. What is still pending is a theoretical framework to explain those findings and gaps. This paper thus develops a theoretical public choice model. It features economies of scale and distinguishes urban reduction targets from actual emission reductions. The model is able to explain the presence of targets and public good provision, yet only under specified conditions. It is also able to support some stylized facts from the empirical literature, e.g. on the effect of city size, and resolves some mixed evidence as special cases. Larger cities chose more ambitious targets if marginal net benefits of mitigation rise with city size—if they set targets at all. Whether target setting is more likely for larger cities depends on the city type. Two types are obtained. The first type reduces more emissions than a free-riding city. Those cities are more likely to set a target when they are larger. However, they miss the self-chosen target. Cities of the second type reach their target, but mitigate less than a free-riding city. A third type does not exist. With its special cases, the model can thus guide further empirical and theoretical work.

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Does mitigation shape adaptation? The urban climate mitigation-adaptation nexus

Cited by 34 publications

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Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

Defeating the Impacts of Changing Climates

Why Local Governments Set Climate Targets: Effects of City Size and Political Costs

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