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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Climate Governance"”.
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Role Conflict Analysis in Global Climate Governance
What are states’ roles in global climate governance? How do they emerge, evolve, and interact with each other? Characterising states with roles is a commonly employed rhetoric which seeks to reflect both the performance of individual players whilst articulating the international community's …
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Climate governance in South Africa: challenges, risks and opportunities
This mini-dissertation examines the state of climate governance in three diverse South African municipalities, namely the City of Cape Town, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (Durban), and Amathole District Municipality. Using a qualitative literature review research approach, this study examines …
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From Global Cities to Global Governors: Power, Politics, and the Convergence of Urban Climate Governance
… are increasingly included in discussions of climate governance and lauded as sources of innovation, leadership, and experimentation. But can they succeed where states have failed in producing meaningful collective actions and effects? To respond to this pressing question requires …
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State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
The post-Kyoto era of climate governance has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of actors and organizations, resulting in a complex institutional regime that displays the essential features of polycentric governance (Keohane and Victor 2011; Abbott 2012; 2018). The complexity …
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The Political Economy of CDM Market in China: Business Actors in the Governance of Carbon Offset
… in networking, influencing and shaping the governance of China’s CDM market. By adopting a neo-pluralistic view of business power, it reveals how companies in the CDM market in China are wielding their unique capabilities and technics to affect policy making and implementing process both at …
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Climate Responsibility : The Instrumental Rationales of Private Oil Companies
This study examines the climate responsibility, a sub-category of corporate social responsibility (CSR), of two oil companies, ExxonMobil and Shell. The study is a comparative case study of the climate responsibilities of two private oil companies, that makes use of academic literature and recent …
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The Governance of Anaerobic Digestion in the United Kingdom: Insights from England and Scotland
The role of governance has received considerable attention within the academic literature on sustainability transitions. However, extant theory in this respect has focused on managing and steering sustainability transitions, while referring mainly to the national level of government, so it has yet …
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Decarbonizing Metropolises: Analyzing New York’s LL97 and Boston’s Berdo Net Zero Policies
… zero have emerged as critical goals in global climate governance, seeking to address human activities’ environmental and social implications on Earth. This thesis explores the decarbonization of urban environments by critically analyzing New York's Local Law 97 (LL97) and Boston's Building …
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Kaleidoscopic Law: A Legal Ecology of the Climate Crisis
… investigates the sociomaterial co-production of climate law by urban coalitions under transnational climate knowledge networks (TCKNs) in transnational and European multilevel climate governance. I argue that European “leading cities” and TCKNs co-assemble an experimentalist legal order nominally …
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Funding for adaptation to climate change : the case of Surat
The need for cities to adapt to climate change is widely acknowledged, yet the question of adaptation finance remains uncertain. Unable to access global climate funds, cities must seek out alternative sources to support their adaptations to climate change. This is particularly challenging for local …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… a global compact between nations to act on climate change, cities have emerged as interesting locations for studying climate leadership due to the failure at the national scale to translate adequate climate actions to meet the goals set. Cities have served as important agents in governance …
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Exploring the factors and actors that contribute to the co-production of climate adaptation plans: a comparison of three municipalities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Local governments are increasingly responding to climate change by developing formal institutions for adaptation. However, given the relative novelty of the adaptation planning field, there is insufficient practice-related research to inform these processes. The aim of this dissertation is …
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Urban-Scale Decomposition of Carbon Peaking Targets in the Yangtze River Delta from a Consumption-Based Responsibility Perspective
… level has emerged as a vital issue in China’s climate governance. As one of the regions with the highest economic development and strongest integration, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is a major source of carbon emissions, and its attainment of the carbon peaking target is essential for national …
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Changing Climate, Static Society? A survey of equity, justice and vulnerability in U.S. Municipal Climate Plans
This project presents survey of municipal climate plans in the United States to determine the existing relationship between climate adaptation planning and understandings of social justice, environmental justice, and vulnerability. The results indicate that while justice and vulnerability …
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Disproportionate Realities: The Climate Justice Implications of Mitigation Policies Across Scales
<p>Global climate change will have disproportionate effects on low-income and minority communities around the world producing important justice challenges. As national governments increasingly rely on local governments, civil society, and private transnational actors to establish and implement …