What explains ambitious climate policy? Comparing updated climate targets and Covid-19 recovery packages and their drivers

如何解释雄心勃勃的气候政策？

• 批准号: 2224086
• 负责人: Jonas Meckling
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: What; explains; ambitious; climate; policy

Many countries updated their national climate targets or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, these countries introduced vast COVID-19 economic recovery packages and fiscal reforms that may either serve to strengthen or upset existing carbon-intensive economic systems. This project will study how long-term climate goals, as indicated in countries’ NDCs, and short-term implementation of climate policies through pandemic recovery spending plans affect each other and why some countries lead in climate policy implementation, while others lag. The study is based on the collection of and analyses of large data sets across several countries. This study, to be carried out by research teams from several countries, will help identify opportunities for policymakers and international financial institutions on how to promote and implement climate change policy ambitions. In addition to helping to understand cross country differences in climate policy implementation, the results of this research will provide inputs into formulating efficient and innovative climate policies in the US.This research project will study two inter-related issues. First, it studies the links between long-term national climate ambitions enshrined in NDC updates and short-term implementation plans embedded in COVID-19 recovery packages, and fiscal reform. Second, it investigates the political and economic drivers underlying differences in climate ambitions and implementation abilities in these types of policy intervention across countries. To do so, the project integrates political science and economics, focusing on the role of policy feedback and financing conditions in driving climate ambition and climate policy interventions. In a mixed-methods design, the project combines descriptive statistical analyses with qualitative comparative case studies in the three analytical tasks. The intellectual merit of this project lies in identifying patterns in the relationship of long-term climate targets and plans (NDCs) and short-term implementation (economic recovery spending) as well as the causes of cross-national variation in this relationship. The results of this research will provide inputs into formulating efficient and innovative climate policies in the US.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

许多国家更新了其国家气候目标或国家确定的贡献（NDC），期间大流行期间。同时，这些国家推出了大量的共同经济复苏套餐和财政改革，可能会加强或破坏现有的碳密集型经济体系。该项目将研究在国家NDC中表明的长期气候目标，以及通过大流行恢复支出计划彼此影响的气候政策的短期实施，以及某些国家在气候政策实施中的领导而为什么其他国家落后。该研究基于对几个国家的大型数据集的收集和分析。这项研究将由来自多个国家的研究团队进行，将有助于确定政策制定者和国际金融机构如何促进和实施气候变化政策野心的机会。除了帮助了解气候政策实施方面的越野差异外，这项研究的结果还将为美国制定高效和创新的气候政策提供投入。这项研究项目将研究两个相互关联的问题。首先，它研究了在NDC更新中所涉及的长期国家气候野心与嵌入Covid-19恢复套餐中的短期实施计划与财政改革之间的联系。其次，它调查了这些类型的政策干预措施的气候野心和实施能力的政治和经济驱动因素。为此，该项目将政治学和经济学整合在一起，重点关注政策反馈和融资条件在推动气候野心和气候政策干预措施中的作用。在混合方法设计中，该项目将描述性统计分析与三个分析任务中的定性比较案例研究结合在一起。该项目的智力优点在于确定长期气候目标和计划（NDC）和短期实施（经济回收支出）的关系的模式，以及这种关系中跨国变化的原因。这项研究的结果将为美国制定高效和创新的气候政策提供投入。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。

项目成果

Scrutinizing countries’ climate commitments: Insights from recovery spending

审查各国的气候承诺：复苏支出的见解

• DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.08.022
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: One Earth
• 影响因子: 16.2
• 作者: Egli, Florian;Schmid, Nicolas;Fransen, Taryn;Stünzi, Anna;Isah, Abdulrasheed;Pineda, Adrianna;Beaton, Christopher;Schmidt, Tobias S.
• 通讯作者: Schmidt, Tobias S.

Taking stock of the implementation gap in climate policy

盘点气候政策的实施差距

• DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01755-9
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Nature Climate Change
• 影响因子: 30.7
• 作者: Fransen, Taryn;Meckling, Jonas;Stünzi, Anna;Schmidt, Tobias S.;Egli, Florian;Schmid, Nicolas;Beaton, Christopher
• 通讯作者: Beaton, Christopher