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)

‼️ 🇺🇸 OPEN ACCESS: With federal US climate policy in flux, state tax incentives could play a bigger role. Yet, they remain limited in scope and focused on energy. To drive real impact and advance climate goals, they must be better integrated into broader fiscal policy, find Elisabeth Gilmore and Travis St.Clair (Carleton University, New York University) Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gnMkXwDs

🇰🇷 : Local governments play a significant role in delivering national net-zero outcomes, but not all have strong local net-zero plans, find Yoonsoo Kim, Gyuhwan Kim and Inhwan Ko (University of Minnesota, Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry , University of Nevada, Reno): ✅ Local govts with a higher renewable energy mix are more likely to make stronger local net-zero policies ✅ Policymakers should focus policy support on local governments that lag in renewable energy development to enhance overall local net-zero policy stringency Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e3QrKNgr

🇪🇹 : While progress has been made towards Climate Policy Integration (CPI) in Ethiopia, long-term progress is hindered by unstable governing structures, find Mathias Nigatu Bimir and Kira Matus (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) ❗ CPI requires a stable cross-sectoral governance structure & clear sectoral mandates Read more ⬇️

⚡ Under existing tax schemes, electricity serving basic needs is 3 times more expensive than electricity serving e-fuel production for aviation, finds Jean-Baptiste JARIN (University of Pau and Adour Countries) 🏠 ✈️ ❗ To avoid major energy injustices, the taxation rate should become proportional to the final purpose of energy Read more ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Government leadership plays a critical role in scaling up crediting markets, find Mari Luomi, Thomas Bosse and Zlata Sergeeva (KAPSARC, ENOWA NEOM) in a new study on the Gulf Cooperation Council's experience with Clean Development Mechanism projects. Essential factors to foster active corporate engagement in crediting markets going forward include: 1️⃣ Entering early into the market 2️⃣ Ensuring sufficient credit price levels for project developers 3️⃣ Providing constant government support, facilitation, incentives and transparency to the market 4️⃣ Raising awareness and fostering specialised expertise Read more ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: A 'preventive' capacity of several hundred gigatonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) may be needed as a hedging strategy against a stronger-than-median Earth System response to our emissions, find Gaurav Ganti, Setu Pelz, Uta Klönne, Matthew GIDDEN, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Zebedee Nicholls (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Climate Analytics) ➡️ Given potential sustainability limits of large-scale CDR deployment, mitigation strategies should reserve CDR for a preventive role as far as possible, instead of using it to balance emissions that can be avoided Read more ⬇️

🇮🇷 : Ali Asghar Sadabadi and Zohreh Rahimirad (Shahid Beheshti University, University of Mazandaran) provide a strategic roadmap (key stakeholders identification, obstacles prioritization, and scenario formulation) for policymakers aiming to speed up the transition to renewable energy by engaging stakeholders, particularly in oil-rich countries ➡️ Oil-rich countries must prioritize collaborative governance structures that involve all relevant stakeholders Read more ⬇️

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Agroforestry systems (AFS) present significant potential for carbon dioxide removal, but scaling up is hindered by widespread ignorance, legal contradictions, restrictions to experimentation and mistrust in farmers' interest and capacities, find Esteban Montero, Sabine Reinecke, Sebastian Mayr and Wil de Jong (Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg) Scaling up agroforestry requires: ✅ Simplified legal processes ✅ Long-term financing ✅ Addressing knowledge needs ✅ Farmer-led experimentation ✅ Trust-building efforts Read more ⬇️

🇦🇪 🇸🇦 : Climate change skepticism in the UAE and KSA varies by age, gender, education, income, religious affiliation, residency and ethnicity, find Ozgur Kaya, Wojciech Florkowski, Ilker Kaya and Davide Contu (American University of Sharjah, The University of Georgia, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Canadian University Dubai) Climate support can be enhanced by: ✅ Strengthening climate communication strategies ✅ Fostering public engagement ✅ Aligning sustainability goals with public perceptions Read more ⬇️