TY - CHAP A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Lodge, Martin ED - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Sectoral Dynamics In Executive Politics: Coordinating Climate Policy in Germany. T2 - Executive Politics in Times of Crisis N2 - Climate change has emerged on governmental agendas throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially following the signing of the Kyoto Protocol (the Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCC) in 1997. The intricacies of the issue, political disputes about scientific evidence, the requirement to deal with an inter-generational policy problem and the need for international problem-solving devices make climate change a ‘wicked issue’. In addition, climate change as a policy issue conflicts with other governmental priorities, such as dealing with social redistribution and economic development. Such a context makes international co-ordination particularly difficult, as evidenced during the Climate Change Conference COP-15 in December 2009 in Copenhagen (Pralle 2009). Y1 - 2012 SN - 9781137010261 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010261_14 SP - 264 EP - 283 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - London ER -