Ratcheting up climate ambitions through Experimentalist Governance? Assessing the EU energy and climate governance regulation

Bocquillon, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-4384 and Maltby, Tomas (2024) Ratcheting up climate ambitions through Experimentalist Governance? Assessing the EU energy and climate governance regulation. Environmental Politics. ISSN 0964-4016

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Abstract

The 2015 Paris climate Agreement established a ‘bottom-up’, pledge and review process as international climate governance’s central framework. The European Union’s governance framework - the Energy and Climate Governance Regulation (EUGR) - uses a similar architecture. Both require states to regularly create, revise and update national plans while ramping up ambitions towards meeting the collectively agreed commitments, sharing features of Experimentalist Governance. This paper contributes to the debate on experimentalist climate governance’s effectiveness. It assesses systematically the implementation in the EUGR based on documentary analysis and expert interviews. We find the process has been partially effective in raising ambitions but has remained incremental, technocratic and depoliticised. Experimentalist processes such as the EUGR and Paris Agreement require a high level of public and stakeholder engagement to operate but politicisation can have, in turn, adverse effects. This raises questions regarding the ability of experimentalist climate governance to deliver, alone, rapid emission reductions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy 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 Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2024 18:29
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2024 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96083
DOI:	10.1080/09644016.2024.2386796

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