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Climate policy
innovation: sources,
patterns and effects
Dave Huitema and Andrew Jordan
Our common future under climate
change, Paris, 9 July 2015
And now?
• Policy innovations needed! Much ‘new’
and necessary policy will have to come
from outside/around the international
regime
• But, our understanding of the sources,
pathways and effects of policy innovation
in these ‘polycentric’ venues remains
incomplete
COST Action INOGOV
• Locus – state led governing through the
relatively formal apparatus of policy
making
• Focus – innovation in climate policy
Locus: the state
Townsend, T. et al. (2013) How national legislation can help to solve climate
change. Nature Climate Change, 3, May, 430-432.
Fit with polycentric
governance? • “(…) larger, general-purpose
governmental units (…) are responsible for
(…) the oversight of appropriate
exercises of authority within smaller
units of government”
• (…) information of what worked well in
one in one setting can be transmitted to
others who may try it out in their settings”
(E. Ostrom, 2005: 283)
Focus: innovation
• Middle range concept, no theory of innovation as
such – but other theories have a view
• A core aspect or function of ‘governing’ – but not
the only one! Avoid pro innovation bias
• Fruitfully examined across the policy cycle –
invention, adoption/implementation, evaluation
• And across different aspects of policy:
instrument settings, through to whole policy
fields
Focus: innovation triangle
Adoption/diffusion: emulation,
exploitation
Effects: effective, impactful
and lasting?
Novelty:
Invention, recombination, exploration
INOGOV outputs – so far
• Special issues Environmental Politics.
‘Innovations in climate policy: the politics of
invention, diffusion and evaluation’ (Jordan and
Huitema eds., Aug ‘14). Global Environmental
Change. ‘Policy innovation in changing
environment: sources, patterns and effects’
(Jordan and Huitema eds., Dec ‘14).
• Workshops, e.g. on Policy experiments in
Climate Governance (Helsinki, March 2015),
and Entrepreneurship in Climate Governance
(Amsterdam, May 2015)
Empirical findings: invention
• New strategies visible, e.g. carbon disclosure,
accounting, liabilities
• Role of entrepreneurs important – positive and
negative motivations
• Quite some ‘experimentation’ raise interesting
ethical and normative questions
Empirical findings: diffusion
• ‘Innovation journeys’- difference first time
adoption and later modulations, influence
entrepreneurs.
• Cultural factors influential.
• Balance of external and internal drivers.
Empirical findings: impacts
• Long term versus short term assessment
• Innovation does not equal performance
• Evaluation has a role in framing problems, in
policy design, and the consolidation process.
Conclusions/some gaps
• Policy innovations do happen!
• Leader states, entrepreneurs and experiments
• Long term trends (‘waves’) in innovations
• Role of international organizations in diffusion
• Innovation very political, also in evaluation
• Catalytic and failed inventions/diffusion?
• Relation between international regime and
national regimes?
Join us!
• Innovations in Climate Governance: Sources
Patterns and Effects (INOGOV), IS1309
• Network funding, +/- 650,000 Euros; 27 COST
countries plus 7 others
• Workshops, summer schools, special issues,
books, dissemination, academic exchange
• Interested? WWW.INOGOV.EU
Outputs: SI EP (August ‘14) Instrument constituencies and the supply side
of policy innovation. Jan-Peter Voß and Arno Simons
Policy invention as a process of evolutionary
tinkering and codification David Jacobs
Climate policy innovation: a socio-technical
transitions perspective
Paul Upham, Paula Kivimaa, Per
Mickwitz, and Kerstin Åstrand
Kindred Spirits or Intergovernmental
Competition? Daniel Matisoff and Jason Edwards
Innovation in climate adaptation policy Anja Bauer and Reinhard Steurer
Evaluation, assessment and policy innovation Mikael Hildén
The innovativeness of national policy portfolios André Schaffrin, Sebastian
Sewerin, Sibylle Seubert
Climate policy innovation: developing an
evaluation perspective.
Mikael Hildén, Andrew Jordan, Tim
Rayner
Outputs: SI GEC (January ‘15)
Domestic Politics and the Diffusion of
International Policy Innovations
Sophie Biesenbender and Jale
Tosun.
Why are Policy Innovations Rare and So Often
Negative?
Michael Howlett
Evaluating the Effects of Policy Innovations
Graeme Auld, Alexandra Mallett,
Bozica Burlica, Francis Nolan-
Poupart, and Robert Slater
Climate policy innovation in the South
Martin Stadelmann and Paula
Castro
The adoption and diffusion of climate change
adaptation policies across Europe
Eric Massey, Robbert Biesbroek,
Dave Huitema, and Andrew Jordan
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Policy Invention and Entrepreneurship
Elin Boasson and Jørgen Wettestad
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