Climate Policy Journal

🚨 Delighted to announce our TOP 10 viewed papers published July 2023 - Dec 2024! Congratulations to all the authors 👏 Great range of topics: finance, agriculture, justice, adaptation, democracy, CBAM, shipping, adaptation, China governance... Check out the top 10 below, or at https://lnkd.in/euX9R9NE ⤵️ 🥇 The Green Climate Fund and private sector climate finance in the Global South. Thomas Kalinowski (Ewha Womans University) 🥈 Exploring the democracy-climate nexus: a review of correlations between democracy and climate policy performance. Daniel Lindvall & Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala University) 🥉 Climate policy at the Bank of England: the possibilities and limits of green central banking. Monica DiLeo (The University of Queensland) #4: A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture. Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Uchook Duangbootsee, Ivan Bimbilovski, Piyathida Thathong & Thanh Mai Ha (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)) #5: Synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement: the role of policy milestones, monitoring frameworks and safeguards. Charlotte Streck (Climate Focus) #6: Shipping in the EU emissions trading system: implications for mitigation, costs and modal split. Jonas Floden, Lars Zetterberg, Anastasia Christodoulou, Rasmus Parsmo, Erik Fridell, Julia Hansson, Johan Rootzén & Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, IVL) #7: China’s climate governance from 2009 to 2019: motivations, instruments, actors, and geopolitics. Xiaoran L., Philipp Pattberg & Oscar Widerberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)) #8: The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: implications on Brazilian energy intensive industries. Sigit Perdana, Marc Vielle, Thais Diniz Oliveira (EPFL) #9: Understanding the climate change adaptation policy landscape in South Africa. Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Dr. Diana Reckien, Robbert Biesbroek, Brian Khanyisa Mantlana & Karin Pfeffer (University of Twente) #10: An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool. Rhys Jones, Papaarangi Reid & Alex Macmillan (The University of Auckland)

🇺🇸 Emphasizing climate co-benefits, especially economic co-benefits, can increase climate policy support among climate skeptical agricultural producers, find Lauren Hunt and Vicken Hillis (Boise State University). However, efficacy varies based on level of climate belief: 👉 Co-benefits framing was ineffective for the most climate skeptical producers 👉 The most climate concerned producers were motivated by direct climate benefits, rather than co-benefits Read more ⤵️

My new article explores how IMF faith in market-based approaches, notably ‘efficient pricing’ of carbon, co-exists with a widening repertoire of economic ideas, including greater catalysing role for the state and public power in green transition. Matthias Thiemann Kevin P Gallagher CORNEL BAN PAIS Webmaster Warwick University Jacqueline Best Jacob Adam Hasselbalch

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Jack Baker, Marlene Kammerer, Paula Castro and Karin Ingold (University of Bern, ZHAW School of Management and Law) promote a set of new indices quantifying the gap between the nationally determined contribution (NDC) mitigation pledge and national mitigation policies of 105 countries. The authors find that: 🔸 3/4 of the 105 countries examined have failed to translate NDC targets into national policy  🔸 Countries tend to have their most balanced and intense policy mix in their largest emitting sector (often the energy sector) 🔸 The coerciveness of policy instruments and the likelihood of their implementation remains low across sectors 🔸 EU membership and development status appear to be indicative of the gap between climate mitigation pledges and policies Read more ⤵️

'Science Based Targets' and the uncritical application of emissions accounting principles to the building sector allow real estate companies to 'artificially' achieve their emissions-reduction targets, finds Bashar Al Shawa (Joule Consulting Group) ➡️ Unless the sector's growing energy demand is reduced, a portion will need to be supplied through fossil fuels, putting into question just how 'science-based' SBTs really are ⭐ The author introduces an alternative proposal: ▪️ Deriving energy efficiency targets for buildings from the sector's share of renewable energy ▪️ Requiring companies to demonstrate that the buildings they own, finance or design comply with these targets in order to be 1.5°C aligned Read more ⤵️

🇺🇸 Although US state and local government attention to equity in climate policy is increasing, true commitments to these goals are less evident. Laura Helmke-Long, Alana Davicino, Sanya Carley and Colin Murphy (Indiana University Bloomington, University of Pennsylvania) identify need to develop: 🔹 Identification of funding support 🔹 Tracking and monitoring of equity elements 🔹 Plans for staff training 🔹 Formal community advisory body to aid with implementation Read more ⤵️

Previous global experiences with reparations yield concrete lessons for the administrative design of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), find Sonja Klinsky and Luke Moffett (Arizona State University, Queen's University Belfast). The FRLD should develop: ➡️ A schedule of loss and damage activities ➡️ Mechanisms that connect intended beneficiaries to the process of identifying actions ➡️ Pathways to generate and accept non-Party financial contributions ➡️ A planned revision cycle that includes intended beneficiaries Read below ⬇️

🇻🇳 : As the risks of climate-induced flooding become increasingly clear, funding for engineering adaptation solutions in low-lying deltas is increasing. In Vietnam, overinvestment in dyke policies, while successful in some dimensions, has: 1️⃣ Exacerbated climate change impacts 2️⃣ Facilitated liberal capitalist expansion 3️⃣ Exacerbated power inequalities 4️⃣ Adversely impacted farmer livelihoods Nguyen Minh Quang, Nguyen Van Minh, Nguyen Vo Chau Ngan and Martha Lerski (CAN THO UNIVERSITY, Hanoi Pedagogical University 2, The City University of New York) call for incorporating and mainstreaming environmental sustainability and cross-farmer class equity in policy implementation Read below ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: The IMF espouses atypically ambitious stances on carbon taxation, fossil fuel subsidies, and substantial redistribution to build political support for net zero transition, yet its economistic mindset and its apolitical approach hinders effective climate policy action, finds Ben Clift (University of Warwick) Read below ⤵️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Multilateral development banks can be substantially reshaped by climate finance, finds Weishen Zeng (University of Oxford) ➡️ Zeng examines how the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been reshaped from an infrastructure-focused to a climate-oriented bank through financial considerations, strategic considerations, and organizational culture Read more ⤵️