Who drives climate-relevant policies in the rising powers?

Schmitz, Hubert

doi:10.1080/13563467.2017.1257597

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“…Both countries had more pressing priorities relating to economic development and energy shortages, but both were vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The same point was true in other large emerging economies where action on climate change has depended on how it is aligned with other domestic considerations (Schmitz, 2016). Today, the international architecture for governing climate change, in the form of the Paris Agreement, provides a clear recognition of the central importance of domestic politics in finding ways to balance climate change mitigation with other priorities, for both developed and developing countries.…”

Section: Constrained Responses To Climate Changementioning

confidence: 92%

“…Dubash and Khosla suggest that “co‐benefits as a concept has been extremely useful to India's political stance on climate change” (Dubash & Khosla, ) by providing a frame for reconciling environmental and developmental objectives. Schmitz reaches a similar conclusion, arguing that “the articulation of a co‐benefits approach has enabled stakeholders to engage in the climate change debate without conceding on their priority of accelerating economic development,” but also suggests that “other than the co‐benefits approach … no coherent strategy exists” (Schmitz, , p. 10). The concept has been seen as similarly valuable in China (Aunan, Fang, Vennemo, Oye, & Seip, ).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The literature has also started to move beyond highlighting the importance of coalitions to consider variations in these coalitions and the sustainability of the opportunistic approaches they are built on. For example, Schmitz highlights the difference between “strategic alliance based on joint action” and “mere alignment of interest without coordination between the parties,” as well as between “consciously pursued and incidental alliance,” and between “transitional (short‐term)” and “enduring (long‐term)” alliances (Schmitz, , p. 15). He argues that “information on the longevity of alliances is rare … but it seems that short‐term alliances, triggered by particular events or focused on specific initiative, are more common” (Schmitz, , p. 15).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Harrison

Kostka

2019

Development Policy Review

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This article explores how strategies of thinking and working politically are used by agencies within developing country governments to influence wider government agendas. It uses research on climate change mitigation in China and India to explore how government agencies seek to overcome challenges of limited capacity and competing priorities by bundling climate change together with more immediate priorities and thereby developing a coalition with an interest in achieving these objectives. The article is based on interviews conducted in China and India, as well as analysis of themes covered in the growing body of literature on the domestic politics of climate change mitigation. In both countries we found that pragmatic approaches leveraging what already exists made significant progress in putting energy efficiency on the agenda, strengthening institutional presence (in India) and delivering improvements in energy efficiency (in China). Yet, we also found that the use of these tactics had significant limitations. While there was probably no other way that the policy space given to climate change mitigation could have increased so rapidly, there are significant side effects that arise as a result of the traction gained by these initial policy approaches. While bundling raised the profile of energy efficiency, it also created perverse incentives that highlight the need to consider the long‐term effect on the interests, capacity and sustainability of informal coalitions. We highlight the need to take account of both the short‐ and long‐term effects of thinking and working politically, and the challenges of doing so when the outcomes are unpredictable and inherently difficult to assess.

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Section: Constrained Responses To Climate Changementioning

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Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Harrison

Kostka

2019

Development Policy Review

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“…Transformations in China are driven by a number of actors [63,64]. The change agents are different stakeholders in transformation, including laid-off workers, former plant owners, local government officials, scholars, NGOs, etc…”

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Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network—Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts?

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Realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require transformative changes at micro, meso and macro levels and across diverse geographies. Collaborative, transdisciplinary research has a role to play in documenting, understanding and contributing to such transformations. Previous work has investigated the role of this research in Europe and North America, however the dynamics of transdisciplinary research on ‘transformations to sustainability’ in other parts of the world are less well-understood. This paper reports on an international project that involved transdisciplinary research in six different hubs across the globe and was strategically designed to enable mutual learning and exchange. It draws on surveys, reports and research outputs to analyse the processes of transdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability that took place between 2015–2019. The paper illustrates how the project was structured in order to enable learning across disciplines, cultures and contexts and describes how it also provided for the negotiation of epistemological frameworks and different normative commitments between members across the network. To this end, it discusses lessons regarding the use of theoretical and methodological anchors, multi-loop learning and evaluating emergent change (including the difficulties encountered). It offers insights for the design and implementation of future international transdisciplinary collaborations that address locally-specific sustainability challenges within the universal framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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“…First, for an IPE audience, our exploration of the often-contested role of hydropower helps give meaning to broader debates over equity and sustainable development, governance, resource extraction, security, technology, centralization, climate change and the environment, policy and scale-political and policy discussions surrounding the provision of reliable, affordable, safe and environmentally benign energy services. At one level, these discussion revolve around the complex drivers behind energy investments in rising geopolitical powers such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa (Baker & Sovacool, 2017;Power, et al 2016;Schmitz, 2017) as well as changing regimes of energy finance (Di Muzio and Salah Ovadia, 2016). At another level, the debate is symbolic of future global struggles to simultaneously expand access to energy services while minimizing environmental degradation and ensuring sustainable development (Kuzemko, Keating, & Goldthau, 2016;Newell, 2018;Rafey & Sovacool, 2011).…”

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Internationalizing the political economy of hydroelectricity: security, development and sustainability in hydropower states

Sovacool

Walter

2018

Review of International Political Economy

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Our study offers a comparative assessment of the economic, sociopolitical and environmental implications of the world's largest source of renewable electricity, hydropower. Theorists from many disciplines have questioned both the proper role and ostensible benefits from the generation of electricity from large-scale hydroelectric dams. In this study, we use 30 years of World Bank data from 1985 to 2014 and a research design with three mutually exclusive reference classes of countries: major hydropower producers, members of OPEC and all other countries. This is precisely so our analysis moves away from 'dam-centric' or single case study approaches to comparative analysis at the international scale. We examine and test six separate hypotheses related to (a) military conflict, (2) poverty, (3) economic growth, (4) public debt, (5) corruption and (6) greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis lends statistical support to the idea that there is such a thing as a 'hydroelectric resource curse', although effects were not always significant and varied from small, medium to large. The possible benefits of hydroelectricityimproved energy access, economic development and positive spillover effects-are real, but they are all too frequently constrained. Planners, investors and researchers may therefore need to rethink their underlying assumptions about how they evaluate hydropower's risk.

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Who drives climate-relevant policies in the rising powers?

Cited by 52 publications

References 45 publications

Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Bureaucratic manoeuvres and the local politics of climate change mitigation in China and India

Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network—Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts?

Internationalizing the political economy of hydroelectricity: security, development and sustainability in hydropower states

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