"Climate mitigation mobilizes neoliberal self-governance through nationally-determined contributions while obscuring unequal historical responsibilities. Adaptation is organized in depoliticized processes of preparing for presumably inevitable climate futures. This is reinforced by climate finance which employs financialisation and de-risking to mobilize additional private capital."
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.70001?af=R
Slight subtlety needing a guiding hand for benefits to survive the political process.
Diagnostic for this fragility: the logic is clear but it's impossible to compress the abstract into < 477 characters.
#RenewableEnergy
#ClimateMitigationPolicy
#EnergyPriceStability
"Contrary to expectations from literature and analyzed news reporting, we cannot determine robust effects of introducing climate policies on governmental support in Sweden. This suggests that governments do not need to anticipate losing substantial support when implementing climate policies – at least in favorable conditions."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2024.2373606?af=R
"Cities’ autonomy and ambition propel them to legislate when Congress is logjammed, regulate when the EPA is legally constrained, and implement when the federal government is too unwieldy to make a real difference in communities on the ground. It is time to move on from the outdated notion that they play only a limited role in the federalist system; on climate, they are the leaders."
"Doing nothing for climate" too often means "we're not paying attention."
Check out #ClimateMitigationPolicy research. Notice how fixing our climate problem includes all sorts of intricate adjustments, including many things much duller than smoothing the path for bigger wires.
But boring or exciting, an executive office needs to push policy for it to happen.
This intricacy is extremely fragile.
Remember this at the ballot box.
"A key and underrated aspect of the recent triad of climate rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is that the ECtHR has brought to the fore the role of trade-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in states’ carbon footprints...As I will argue, the ruling all but requires Switzerland to adopt a climate-oriented trade policy."
#ExternalCosts
#ClimateMitigationPolicy
#SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw
"...reviewing agencies often report lack of appropriate tools to objectively assess the climate impacts of individual fossil fuel infrastructure projects, and to determine the significance of these impacts. Here we present a novel methodology to fill this critical gap by providing a science-based decision support tool, a ‘climate test’, for use in determining an infrastructure project’s carbon emissions significance."
#ClimateMitigationPolicy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2023.2239754?af=R
"The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions."
This is the kind of exquisitely intricate and highly crafted policy-relevant research offering low-hanging analytic fruit that makes me want to weep, thinking in terms of what might survive the legislative process leading to actual policy in law & regulation.
Slightly facetiously, a bit like dropping a Swiss watch into a rock-crusher and then hoping to read the time of day at the exit conveyor belt.
#WindGeneration
#ClimateMitigationPolicy
#WindTurbineSiting
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901123000497?dgcid=rss_sd_all
