DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2015.1069175
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84938531001
论文题名: Facilitating linkage of climate policies through the Paris outcome
作者: Bodansky D ; M ; , Hoedl S ; A ; , Metcalf G ; E ; , Stavins R ; N
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2016
卷: 16, 期: 8 起始页码: 956
结束页码: 972
语种: 英语
英文关键词: climate policy architecture
; international climate policy
; linkage
; market mechanisms
Scopus关键词: bottom-up approach
; cost-benefit analysis
; environmental policy
; international agreement
; policy making
; regional policy
; top-down approach
; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action negotiations are likely to lead to a Paris outcome that embodies a hybrid climate policy architecture, combining top-down elements, such as for monitoring, reporting, and verification, with bottom-up elements, including ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions’ from participating countries, detailing plans to reduce emissions, based on national circumstances. For such a system to be cost-effective – and thus more likely to embody greater ambition – a key feature will be linkages among regional, national, and sub-national climate policies. By linkage, we mean formal recognition by a mitigation programme in one jurisdiction of emission reductions undertaken in another jurisdiction for the purposes of complying with the first jurisdiction's requirements. The Paris outcome could play at least four different roles with respect to linkage of heterogeneous policy instruments. First, it could discourage linkage, either by not allowing countries to count international transfers toward their mitigation contributions, or by limiting the number or types of transferred units that can be counted for compliance purposes. Second, it could be silent on the topic of linkage, creating legal and regulatory uncertainty about whether international transfers are allowed. Third, it could expressly authorize linkage but not provide any further details about how linkage should occur, leaving it to future United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiating sessions to work out the details or to national governments to develop bilateral or multilateral linkage arrangements. Finally, the Paris outcome could establish institutional arrangements and rules that facilitate and promote linkage. We examine how a future international policy architecture could help facilitate the growth and operation of a robust system of international linkages. Several design elements merit serious consideration for inclusion in the Paris outcome, either in the core agreement or by establishing a process for subsequent international elaboration. At the same time, including detailed linkage rules in the core agreement is not desirable because this could make it difficult for rules to evolve in light of experience. Policy relevance These findings have implications for the efficient and effective design of an international climate policy architecture by detailing the role that linkage can play in supporting heterogeneous climate policies at the regional, national, and sub-national levels. © 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80328
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作者单位: Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States; Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, United States; Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States; Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Bodansky D,M,, Hoedl S,et al. Facilitating linkage of climate policies through the Paris outcome[J]. Climate Policy,2016-01-01,16(8)