Identifying Institutional Demand to Activate Self-Regulation for Climate Change

Abstract

Background and objective: Self-regulation has recently been implemented as an alternative solution to regulatory problems brought on by the inevitable delay of government-led regulations that cannot keep pace with environmental regulatory requirements in the field of climate change. The reality is that there has been insufficient preparation regarding implementing these alternative regulations to ensure that democratic support has been verified, and procedural legitimacy has been ensured.Methods: This study aims to identify institutional demands measures that can stimulate self-regulation in the future by conducting interviews with people who currently engage in self-regulation in the field of climate and the environment.Results: The analysis is categorized into five groups: G1 for technology development, G2 for management and operation, G3 for facility investment, G4 for corporate support, and G5 for government regulation response. By category, public institutions and research institutes show a high demand for issues related to management and operation. The highly centralized management and operation sector confirms that there is demand for greater policy enactment in postevaluation, which assesses the achievement of target levels.Conclusion: Since systematic transitions such as climate change are associated with institutional changes in various fields along with technological development, policy coherence and policy integration are seen as vital to the management and operational aspect of systems established in previous studies.