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Dudley, Harriet 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-9388, Jordan, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7678-1024 and Lorenzoni, Irene
(2022)
Advising national climate policy makers: A longitudinal analysis of the UK Climate Change Committee.
Global Environmental Change, 76.
ISSN 0959-3780
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Abstract
Despite the recent proliferation of national climate change advisory bodies, very little is known about what advice they provide, to whom, and when. To address these gaps in the literature, this article systematically analyses all 700 of the recommendations made by the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the period 2009–20. The CCC is one of the oldest climate change advisory bodies of its kind in the world and its design has been widely emulated by other countries. For the first time, this article documents how the CCC’s mitigation and adaptation recommendations have changed over time with respect to their addressee, sectoral focus and policy targets. It reveals that they became: more numerous per year; more cross-sectoral in their nature; clearer in targeting a specific addressee; and more focused in referring to specific policy targets. By drawing on Fischer’s synthesis of policy evaluation to derive a measure of policy ambition, it also reveals that despite many of its recommendations being repeated year after year, the CCC has become more willing to challenge the policy status quo. It concludes by identifying future research needs in this important and fast-moving area of climate governance, notably understanding the conditions in which the recommendations of advisory bodies (do not) impact national policy.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 09:39 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88714 |
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