Regional climate change policies: an analysis of commitments, policy instruments and targets

Giulia Gadani (), Ibon Galarraga and Elisa Sainz de Murieta ()
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Elisa Sainz de Murieta: BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change

No 520, SEEDS Working Papers from SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies

Abstract: Regional governments represent an increasingly relevant component in climate change policies, which showcase a high interest in the climate change sphere and provide several benefits connected with their governance. This study aims to shed light on this scale of governance by describing the climate change policies of 61 regions from all over the world and by analysing the possible connections between the regional environmental policy instruments and the level of mitigation and adaptation commitment. The results show that the regional governments of this work appear to be an active component in climate policy, since they all have their own GHG emission reduction targets, devise their own climate policies and instruments and participate in international climate networks. All regions have reported mitigation and adaptation commitments, with different levels of ambition. In addition, it is observable that while some regions (mainly the North) focus mostly on mitigation targets, other (the South) focus on adaptation. Finally, there does not seem to be a connection between the level of climate commitment and the preference for some policy instruments.

Keywords: Climate change governance; regional climate change policy; climate change commitment; mitigation; adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 Q58 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2020-05, Revised 2020-05
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Journal Article: Regional climate change policies: An analysis of commitments, policy instruments and targets (2019)
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