气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom

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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113484
	Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom
	Gransaull, Gareth; Rhodes, Ekaterina; Fairbrother, Malcolm
发表日期	2023
ISSN	0301-4215
EISSN	1873-6777
卷号	175 页码:9
英文摘要	The United Kingdom (UK) is home to one of the most ambitious climate policy regimes in the world, centred around the 2008 Climate Change Act (CCA), the first strategic climate legislation of its kind. Building on prior studies of the CCA while highlighting Germany as a counterfactual case study, we demonstrate the significant positive role that strategic framework legislation can play in improving climate policy integration and coherence. We further show that important new institutions can be established under the right historical conditions. Specifically, we argue that the political weakening of the UK coal sector was a necessary precursor to the adoption of strong climate policy and the emergence of a structural consensus towards accelerating climate ambition, as compared with Germany where consolidation of the coal regime has been a major factor in the country's failure to meet its emissions targets. We show how business associations and labour groups in the UK were a key supportive coalition for early climate action, while in Germany industry and organized labour have been key actors obstructing and delaying the passage of pro-climate reforms. Our study raises questions about the prospects for energy transitions that are both just and rapid, particularly by discussing the trade-offs between costeffectiveness, speed, and distributional concerns.
英文关键词	Climate institutions; Climate governance; Climate policy; UK ?s Climate Change Act; Political support; Decoupling
学科领域	Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000943689700001
来源期刊	ENERGY POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272316
作者单位	University of Victoria; Umea University; University of Graz
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gransaull, Gareth,Rhodes, Ekaterina,Fairbrother, Malcolm. Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom[J],2023,175:9.
APA	Gransaull, Gareth,Rhodes, Ekaterina,&Fairbrother, Malcolm.(2023).Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom.ENERGY POLICY,175,9.
MLA	Gransaull, Gareth,et al."Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom".ENERGY POLICY 175(2023):9.