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SEMI-PLENARY II –

IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS AGREEMENT: WHO IS DOING WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND HOW?

Andy Jordan, 2016 Berlin Conference on Global Environmental Change, Berlin, 23-24 May 2016

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Narratives of climate governance…

“Narrative of despair” – the regime is struggling – < 2 degrees is impossible…

“Narrative of hope” – new things are happening at other levels and scales….

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Hakelberg, L. (2014) Governance by Diffusion. Gl Env Politics, 14, 1, 107-129

Bulkeley et al., Transnational Climate Governance, CUP, 2014 (in press)

Townsend, T. et al. (2013) How national legislation can help to solve climate change. Nature Climate Change, 3, May, 430-432.Hilden, M., Jordan, A., & Rayner, T. (2014). Climate policy innovation: Developing an evaluation perspective.Environmental Politics (in press)

Polycentric governance

A complete inventory of

actions “would be a good

subject for a future research project” (page

19).

What is INOGOV?

Four year (2014 – 2018) COST- funded Action

28 country network

Core task – networking, synthesizing, harvesting

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Networking tools

Meetings (workshops, conferences, conference panels)

Dissemination (website; policy briefs; ‘open access’ funding)

Visiting fellowships (€2,500 – 3,500)

Summer schools & a MOOC

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Working groups

WG1: Sources

The invention, initiation and emergence of new forms of policy and governance - policy entrepreneurs; experimentation; ‘leadership’

Elin Boasson, Dave Huitema

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Working groups

WG1: Sources

The invention, initiation and emergence of new forms of policy and governance, resulting from the activities of policy entrepreneurs, innovative businesses and/or ‘leader’ states

Elin Boasson, Dave Huitema

WG2: Patterns and Processes

The diffusion, upscaling and adoption of new elements - lesson drawing, transfer, emulation, upscaling and uploading

JaleTosun, Andy Jordan

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Working groups

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WG3: Effects

The effects, efficiency and legitimacy of new elements, assessed either ex ante or ex post

Mikael Hildén, Dave Huitema

Sources

What stimulates invention? The UNFCCC regime?

Role of policy and governance entrepreneurs

Policy experiments and experimentation

Meta-motivations –politicians; non-state actors

Patterns

What diffuses? When and how? (attributes of innovation’)

How long does it take?

Distribution –across states; issues areas etc.

Links and linkages between domains and actors (role of the UNFCCC)

Effects

How long do innovations last?

Interactions - co-existence; fusion; competition; replacement?

How well do they perform and on what criteria?

‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ effects –emissions: the bottom line?

Outputs (selected)

NCC Perspective (5, November, 977-982): ‘Emergence of Polycentric Climate Governance and its Future Prospects’ (2015)

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How to get involved…

Join… sign up to our mailing list

Attend / propose a research workshop

Attend / lecture at a summer school (2017 + 2018)

Join Early Career Investigators’ Network

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SEMI-PLENARY II –

IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS AGREEMENT: WHO IS DOING WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND HOW?

Andy Jordan, 2016 Berlin Conference on Global Environmental Change, Berlin, 23-24 May 2016

www.inogov.euinfo@inogov.eu