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National climate institutions complement targets and policies

  • Discussions about climate mitigation tend to focus on the ambition of emission reduction targets or the prevalence, design, and stringency of climate policies. However, targets are more likely to translate to near-term action when backed by institutional machinery that guides policy development and implementation. Institutions also mediate the political interests that are often barriers to implementing targets and policies. Yet the study of domestic climate institutions is in its infancy, compared with the study of targets and policies. Existing governance literatures document the spread of climate laws (1, 2) and how climate policy-making depends on domestic political institutions (3–5). Yet these literatures shed less light on how states organize themselves internally to address climate change. To address this question, drawing on empirical case material summarized in table S1, we propose a systematic framework for the study of climate institutions. We lay out definitional categories for climate institutions, analyze how states address three core climate governance challenges—coordination, building consensus, and strategy development—and draw attention to how institutions and national political contexts influence and shape each other. Acontextual “best practice” notions of climate institutions are less useful than an understanding of how institutions evolve over time through interaction with national politics.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Navroz K. Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Christian FlachslandORCiD, Kathyrn Harrison, Kathryn Hochstetler, Matthew Lockwood, Robert MacNeil, Matto Mildenberger, Matthew Paterson, Fei Teng, Emily Tyler
Parent Title (English):Science
Publication year:2021
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:690
Last Page:693
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1157
Release Date:2021/11/10
Volume:374
Issue:6568
Hertie School Research:Centre for Sustainability
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AY 21/22:AY 21/22
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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