Tools
ToolsDudley, Harriet, Jordan, Andrew and Lorenzoni, Irene (2022) Advising national climate policy makers: A longitudinal analysis of the UK Climate Change Committee. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 76. ISSN 0959-3780
Preview |
PDF (1-s2.0-S0959378022001273-main)
- Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (675kB) | Preview |
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 |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Related URLs: | |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2025 00:12 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88714 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102589 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |