The Policy Coherence Framework Approach in a Multi-Level Analysis of European, German and Thuringian Climate Policy with a Special Focus on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)

Justus Eberl, Evgenia Gordeeva and Norbert Weber
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Justus Eberl: Faculty of Resource Management, University of Applied Sciences and Art (HAWK), 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Evgenia Gordeeva: Chair of Forest Policy and Forest Resource Economics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
Norbert Weber: Chair of Forest Policy and Forest Resource Economics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01737 Tharandt, Germany

World, 2021, vol. 2, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: This work sets out to apply the Policy Coherence Framework (PCF) to the case of climate policy, taking into account the European, German and Thuringian political levels of analysis. It combines an analysis of vertical coherence between these levels and horizontal coherence within and between different sectoral policies. The study demonstrates disparities between coherence within climate policy itself and between other policy sectors as regards forest area development. It further reveals some contradictions between economic and ecological goals in German climate policy, particularly as concerns the role of forests. According to the authors, this observation can, at least in part, be explained by the national security obligations of Germany as a nation state. This assumption is supported by the observation that the regional level of Thuringia is more consistent with the supranational level of the European Union, both of which can “afford” to favour ecology over economy due to not being nation states. Another finding suggests that the broad and ambiguous definition of climate policy causes many contradictions, leading to an “omnipresence” of climate policy, and in doing so, strips it of its meaning and, consequently, practical relevance.

Keywords: land-use policy; climate policy; forest policy; multi-level governance; European Union; policy coherence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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