Pandémie de Covid-19 : quelles implications pour le climat et pour la politique climatique locale ?

Zeigermann, Ulrike; Böcher, Michael; Windels, Loïc

doi:10.3917/all.239.0224

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“…Hence, climate change is still not very important on the political agenda in many counties or cities, and in some rural areas there is even resistance to climate activities because people fear income losses (Arndt et al, 2022). Recent studies examining the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on local climate policy support this consideration and show that resources for climate change mitigation policy were even reallocated to health policy or social policy in some counties (Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). Furthermore, many local governments do not link climate change mitigation or adaptation activities with regional development potentials, but they see the investment in climate policy as a resource‐intense policy area with uncertain socioeconomic outcomes and political gains (Zilles & Marg, 2022).…”

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“…More importantly, their adaptive capacity is influenced by their socioeconomic and political context as well as the prevalent settlement structure (Abel, 2021; Schulze & Schoenefeld, 2022; Tobin, 2017; Valbuena et al, 2021; Wieliczko et al, 2021). The combination of the three factors provides local actors with more or fewer resources to tackle climate change mitigation (Böcher, 2016b; Bulkeley & Kern, 2006; Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). While pioneer regions oftentimes significantly shape climate policy at higher political levels (“vertical upscaling”) or are involved in (trans‐) national networks and associations (“horizontal upscaling”), poorer regions rarely get involved in such processes (Bulkeley & Kern, 2006; Graf et al, 2018; Kern, 2019).…”

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“…In order to answer the research question, we draw on climate policy literature pointing to the relevance of socioeconomic, political, and settlement characteristics rather than the role of actors as most studies do (Bulkeley & Kern, 2006; Graf et al, 2018; Kern, 2019; Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). While political actors and their interactions have been found to play an important role in local climate policy (Kemmerzell & Hofmeister, 2019), other studies indicate that institutional factors are particularly important for rural areas (Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). Due to their socioeconomic setting and other pressing problems, like demographic change, structural change in agriculture, or loss of infrastructure, rural areas are often in need of external incentives to establish climate policy (Zeigermann et al, 2020; Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While political actors and their interactions have been found to play an important role in local climate policy (Kemmerzell & Hofmeister, 2019), other studies indicate that institutional factors are particularly important for rural areas (Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). Due to their socioeconomic setting and other pressing problems, like demographic change, structural change in agriculture, or loss of infrastructure, rural areas are often in need of external incentives to establish climate policy (Zeigermann et al, 2020; Zeigermann & Böcher, 2022). These incentives can be of an institutional nature, for example, when higher levels of government provide financial support or set up special support programs.…”

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What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide

Zeigermann

Kammerer

Böcher

2022

Review of Policy Research

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The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking this regional fragmentation as a starting point, we ask the following: How can we explain disparity in the amount of funding across counties and cities? We draw on climate policy literature pointing to the role of socioeconomic and political determinants and the settlement structure to answer this question. We study all 400 cities and counties to test hypotheses concerning disparity in the likelihood and amount of climate funding, using data from the German Ministry for the Environment and further regional statistics. Running different multilevel regression models, we show that local climate funding is more likely in cities and more urbanized counties than in rural counties with less population and oftentimes also with less young and educated people. We argue that despite the increasing number of local governments getting active in climate protection in Germany, there is important unused potential for climate change mitigation in rural counties. Therefore, we conclude by proposing a new research agenda focusing on climate change mitigation in rural areas.

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