European Municipalities Engaging in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Networks: Examining the Case of the Covenant of Mayors

Haupt, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75798-8_5

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“…This section introduces the CoM Twinning Program. The descriptive background information and data provided in this section can be found on the websites of the CoM and EUROCITIES and in reports and academic work on the CoM initiative (see Haupt 2018; Kona et al 2015). First, the emergence history of the eponymous CoM, its goals, and its embeddedness in the European Union (EU) policy-making framework are described.…”

Section: The Covenant Of Mayors Twinning Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

Haupt

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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Study visits are an underresearched phenomenon, particularly in the field of climate change adaptation. Drawing on interviews with key local stakeholders, this article investigates study visits organized by European municipal climate networks. The results of this exploratory research show that study visits about adaptation policies can (1) particularly stimulate conceptual learning, (2) increase the credibility of policies within municipal administrations, (3) be used as strategic instruments by mentor cities, (4) be more successful if the peer-cities are not too different (in terms of size, institutional context), and (5) under certain conditions, lead to policy adoption in a learning city. Future research needs to critically discuss the mass suitability of learning from frontrunner cities. Furthermore, a call is raised for more research and practical action on how to initiate and improve learning exchanges beyond the strict division between mentors and learners. Instead, the focus needs to be on mutual learning exchanges.

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Section: The Covenant Of Mayors Twinning Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

Haupt

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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“…While sustainability approaches tend to frame local problems in the broader picture of global dynamics, adaptive strategies are often specific and local [24]. In resilience thinking, emphasis is more often put on the "local" as the preferred level of action [1] and on the celebration of local knowledge and local entrepreneurship [89,93]. However, the "local turn" in spatial planning has been subject of criticism as a way to further weaken statutory public planning [94] and on the basis of the dysfunctionalities that occur in very fragmented planning systems when many local authorities act in an uncoordinated way [95].…”

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The Rise of Resilience in Spatial Planning: A Journey through Disciplinary Boundaries and Contested Practices

Rega¹,

Bonifazi

2020

Sustainability

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Resilience has become a popular term in spatial planning, often replacing sustainability as a reference frame. However, different concepts and understandings are embedded within it, which calls for keeping a critical stance about its widespread use. In this paper, we engage with the resilience turn in spatial planning and we dwell on the relation between resilience and sustainability from a planning perspective. Building on insights from ecology, complex system theory and epistemology, we question whether resilience can effectively act as a ‘boundary object’, i.e., a concept plastic enough to foster cooperation between different research fields and yet robust enough to maintain a common identity. Whilst we do not predicate a dichotomy between resilience and sustainability, we argue that the shift in the dominant understanding of resilience from a descriptive concept, to a broader conceptual and normative framework, is bound to generate some remarkable tensions. These can be associated with three central aspects in resilience thinking: (i) the unknowability and unpredictability of the future, whence a different focus of sustainability and resilience on outcomes vs. processes, respectively, ensue; (ii) the ontological separation between the internal components of a system and an external shock; (iii) the limited consideration given by resilience to inter- and intra-generational equity. Empirical evidence on actual instances of planning for resilience from different contexts seems to confirm these trends. We advocate that resilience should be used as a descriptive concept in planning within a sustainability framework, which entails a normative and transformative component that resonates with the very raison d’être of planning.

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“…Several recent studies on the topic of the CoM initiative have been published, analysing CoM initiative at different scales, from national [19,28], to regional [29][30][31][32][33][34] and local [35][36][37][38], including also trans-national comparisons [39][40][41][42][43][44]. Results of the progress plans can be compared with different GHG emissions balances [45], in order to evaluate the progress of local plans [46][47][48], especially in urban contexts [49][50].…”

Section: Covenant Of Mayors Initiativementioning

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Local Actions for Reducing Global Greenhouse Gas Footprint: 10 Years of Covenant of Mayors Initiative

Adami¹,

Tubino²,

Ragazzi³

et al. 2020

IJSDP

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Covenant of Mayor was launched in 2008 as a voluntary initiative for local administrations that intend to adopt a plan of interventions concerning greenhouse gas mitigations, achieving and exceeding the EU climate and energy targets. In its first decade of activity, Covenant of Mayors has become the world's largest initiative based on actions of energy saving and local climate mitigation, involving 250+ million inhabitants and 7700+ signatories in more than 50 countries worldwide, under the denomination of Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. Globally, a total 5996 municipalities subscribed to the above-mentioned agreement in the first decade, in addition to 1743 progress plans and a wide database of indications regarding successful actions of Greenhouse Gas footprint mitigation at a European scale. This work reports on the global statistics of the initiative in the period 2008-2017 and the geographical location of the signatories within the territory of the European Union, highlighting limits and challenges of the initiative.

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European Municipalities Engaging in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Networks: Examining the Case of the Covenant of Mayors

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

The Rise of Resilience in Spatial Planning: A Journey through Disciplinary Boundaries and Contested Practices

Local Actions for Reducing Global Greenhouse Gas Footprint: 10 Years of Covenant of Mayors Initiative

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