What factors influence mitigative capacity?

Winkler, Harald; Baumert, Kevin A.; Blanchard, Odile; Burch, Sarah; Robinson, John R.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.01.009

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“…Factors that tend to influence the mitigative capacity of a society include the range of viable technological options, national and international institutions for policy making, the availability of financial resources necessary to support mitigation activities, stocks of human and social capital, and political will for addressing energy and environmental issues (Yohe 2001;Winkler et al 2007;Klein et al 2007). High (or low) mitigative capacity can result from the combination of a limited set of these factors, and need not involve all factors influencing capacity in the same direction.…”

Section: Challenges To Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

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The new scenario framework for climate change research envisions combining pathways of future radiative forcing and their associated climate changes with alternative pathways of socioeconomic development in order to carry out research on climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation. Here we propose a conceptual framework for how to define and develop a set of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) for use within the scenario framework. We define SSPs as reference pathways describing plausible alternative trends in the evolution of society and ecosystems over a century timescale, in the absence of Climatic Change (2014) climate change or climate policies. We introduce the concept of a space of challenges to adaptation and to mitigation that should be spanned by the SSPs, and discuss how particular trends in social, economic, and environmental development could be combined to produce such outcomes. A comparison to the narratives from the scenarios developed in the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) illustrates how a starting point for developing SSPs can be defined. We suggest initial development of a set of basic SSPs that could then be extended to meet more specific purposes, and envision a process of application of basic and extended SSPs that would be iterative and potentially lead to modification of the original SSPs themselves.

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Section: Challenges To Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

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“…The unlocking capacity represents the abilities of actors to recognise and dismantle structural drivers of unsustainable path dependencies and maladaptation. The revelation of drivers of unsustainability and path dependencies creates the condition forrevealing institutions, technologies and behaviours that need to be strategically phase-out (Meadowcroft 2009;Burch and Robinson 2007). Undermining vested interests and existing (financial, regulatory) incentive structures enables reducing the comparative advantage of business-asusual towards emerging alternatives, for example, by penalising unsustainable practices (Bettini et al 2015;Geels 2014;Kivimaa and Kern 2016).…”

Section: Capacities Framework For Transformative Climate Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate governance scholars explore mitigation options including emissions accounting, disincentives and decommissioning of high-carbon practices (Burch and Robinson 2007;Hermwille 2017). Sustainability transition scholars highlight processes for revealing and destabilising unsustainable, highly path-dependent regimes that are deeply embedded in dominant practices, actor networks, institutional structures and infrastructure designs and perpetuate maladaptation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2018

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In light of the persistent failure to reduce emissions decisively, facilitate long-term resilience against climate change and account for the connectedness of climate change with other social, environmental and economic concerns, we present a conceptual framework of capacities for transformative climate governance. Transformative climate governance enables climate mitigation and adaptation while purposefully steering societies towards low-carbon, resilient and sustainable objectives. The framework provides a systematic analytical tool for understanding and supporting the already ongoing changes of the climate governance landscape towards more experimental approaches that include multi-scale, cross-sectoral and public-private collaborations. It distinguishes between different types of capacities needed to address transformation dynamics, including responding to disturbances (stewarding capacity), phasing-out drivers of path dependency (unlocking capacity), creating and embedding novelties (transformative capacity) and coordinating multi-actor processes (orchestrating capacity). Our case study of climate governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, demonstrates how the framework helps to map the activities by which multiple actors create new types of conditions for transformative climate governance, assess the effectiveness of the capacities and identify capacity gaps. Transformative and orchestrating capacities in Rotterdam emerged through the creation of space and informal networks for strategic and operational innovation, which also propelled new types of governance arrangements and structures. Both capacities support stewarding and unlocking by integrating and mainstreaming different goals, connecting actors to each other for the development of solutions and mediating interests. Key challenges across capacities remain because of limited mainstreaming of long-term and integrated thinking into institutional and regulatory frameworks. As the ongoing changes in climate governance open up multiple questions about actor roles, effective governance processes, legitimacy and how effective climate governance in the context of transformations can be supported, we invite future research to apply the capacities framework to explore these questions.

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“…Hence, mitigation actions include all human activities intended to reduce GHG emissions or increase GHG sinks (IPCC 2007;Klein et al 2005;IPCC 2001;Barbi and Ferreira 2016). The main obstacles to implement these policies include the emission reduction costs and political will (Winkler et al 2007;Barbi and Ferreira 2016). Other influences on mitigation policies include experts/ non-experts relations, regulators/industry relations, risk perception, power and influence of interest groups and historical culture Ferreira and Barbi 2016).…”

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“…Literature on this issue (Bulkeley and Kern 2006;Betsill and Bulkeley 2007;IPCC 2007;Winkler et al 2007;Burch and Robinson 2007;Bizikova et al 2010;UN-HABITAT 2011) identifies five key sectors that concentrate on the responses to climate change mitigation at the subnational level: urban development (territory planning strategies), built environment, urban infrastructure (power systems, water, sanitation and solid waste), transport and carbon sequestration (conservation, reforestation, etc. ).…”

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Governing Climate Change Risks: Subnational Climate Policies in Brazil

Barbi

Ferreira

2017

Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.

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Subnational governments play a key role producing responses to climate change risks involving policy strategies and instruments. This article analyzes how Brazilian municipal and state governments have developed and implemented climate change mitigation and adaptation public policies. We surveyed all cities' and states' climate policies within the country. The methodological approach includes five main points of analysis: (1) mitigation targets and intentions; (2) adaptation actions; (3) stakeholders' participation; (4) policy implementation; (5) participation in climate change transnational networks. Our results showed that even though subnational climate policies are isolated initiatives in the country, they are relevant initiatives to respond to climate change risks in different scales and levels. The solidest subnational policies emerged where there were previous institutional arrangements related to climate change including the participation of several stakeholders. Such governments have also joined transnational climate change cooperation networks.

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What factors influence mitigative capacity?

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Cited by 58 publications

References 12 publications

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Governing Climate Change Risks: Subnational Climate Policies in Brazil

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