Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa

Never, Babette

doi:10.1177/1070496512449821

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“…Research on climate policy in Brazil, China, and India has identified complex coalitions of climate-policy actors, consisting of scientists, NGOs, politicians, bureaucrats, and businesspersons (Carvalho, 2010;Never, 2012;Stensdal, 2014). We find the ACF's focus on policy processes within policy subsystems over time (at least a decade) suitable for encompassing this variety of policy actors.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…However, since around 2000, they have focused on the linkage between such issues and global climate change (Lele, 2012). Many national NGOs have had close ties to Indian climate scientists, and much of the first climate science in India was published by research NGOs (Agarwal and Narain, 1991;Kandlikar and Sagar, 1999;Never, 2012). In the mid-2000s Indian researchers were active in the 4th IPCC process, and the national press paid more attention to climate issues, and researchers and NGOs argued that India needed to take climate change seriously (Jogesh and Painter, 2011).…”

Section: Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They encourage using comparative methods to explain and systematize the empirical complexities of climate-policy development (Purdon, 2015;Steinberg and VanDeveer, 2012). Single-case analyses of climate policymaking in Brazil, China, and India find coalitions of policy actors working to promote climatepolicy change in all three (Aamodt, 2015;Carvalho, 2010;Lele, 2012;Never, 2012;Stensdal, 2014Stensdal, , 2015. Contributing to the emerging field of comparative environmental politics, we analyze and compare the role of climate-advocacy coalitions in policy processes in Brazil, China, and India.…”

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Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

Aamodt

2017

Global Environmental Change

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What drives the development of climate policy? Brazil, China, and India have all changed their climate policies since 2000, and single-case analyses of climate policymaking have found that all three countries have had climate coalitions working to promote climate policies. To what extent have such advocacy coalitions been able to influence national policies for climate-change mitigation, and what can explain this? Employing a new approach that combines the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) with insights from comparative environmental politics and the literature on policy windows, this paper identifies why external parameters like political economy and institutional structures are crucial for explaining the climate advocacy coalitions' ability to seize policy windows and influence policy development. We find that the coalitions adjust their policy strategies to the influence-opportunity structures in each political context-resulting in confrontation in Brazil, cooperation in China, and a complementary role in India.

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Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

Aamodt

2017

Global Environmental Change

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“…Notwithstanding these efforts, interviewees and scholars claim that a consistent framework to address climate change by integrating interconnected issues such as energy and social and economic development has long been missing in Indian climate policy (Never, 2012;interviews 1, 8, 12). The co-benefits approach represents, at least in theory, such a framework.…”

Section: Indian Climate Policy and Discoursesmentioning

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The politics of co-benefits in India’s energy sector

Mayrhofer

Gupta

2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Emerging economies are struggling to make their development plans sustainable. India, for example, has adopted the co-benefits approach in its climate policy to integrate interconnected environmental, economic and social issues. The literature treats co-benefits as a politically neutral technocratic policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gases. But, what are the real potential benefits and limits of the co-benefits approach in the Indian institutional context? Drawing on discursive institutionalism, we highlight the interplay between 'co-benefits', the discursive processes through which it has evolved, the interests it has given expression to, and the Indian institutional context that mediates these processes. The successful adoption of this approach can be explained through the flexibility with which different actors interpret it and express their interests through storylines. Yet, this interpretive flexibility also explains the limited success in implementing this approach in India's energy sector. To overcome existing limitations, we suggest the necessity of triple-loop transformational learning.

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“…Nevertheless, actors adopt various advocacy measures for shaping decision-making processes [92]. Wind energy firms and industry associations have generally used five major forms of advocacy: (1) utilizing formal procedures (meeting concerned ministers and policy makers, requesting supportive policies and regulations by writing letters and appeals); (2) presenting detailed clarifications and amendments in existing regulations and policies during public hearings organized by regulatory agencies; (3) discussing critical policy and regulatory issues in public forums; (4) engaging in debates and discussions in roundtable forums and working groups; and 5) raising awareness through media.…”

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Institutional entrepreneurship in transforming energy systems towards sustainability: Wind energy in Finland and India

Jolly

Spodniak

Raven

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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a b s t r a c tA growing body of literature has examined the dynamics of wind energy development across different mature and emerging institutional contexts. However, so far only few have paused to reflect on the differences between developed and emerging economies. Building upon the literature on institutional entrepreneurship, this paper compares institutional strategies in wind energy development in Finland and India by using the typology of political, technical and cultural work. We highlight the role of institutional approaches in studying sustainable energy transitions in mature and emerging institutional contexts, while being sensitive to the role of heterogeneous actors in shaping institutional arrangements. Our findings offer implications for debates in the institutional entrepreneurship literature by exploring how actors shape their institutional environment in different contexts, and the extent to which emerging institutional contexts provide more opportunities for institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, this paper underscores the need for developing insights into enabling conditions for successful collective institutional entrepreneurship and for developing typologies of institutional strategies which are generalizable across both mature and emerging institutional contexts.

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Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

The politics of co-benefits in India’s energy sector

Institutional entrepreneurship in transforming energy systems towards sustainability: Wind energy in Finland and India

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