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In person icon Building: New Philosophy Building, Floor: 1, Room: 111
Tuesday 13:30 - 15:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
The Paris Agreement was signed almost 10 years ago. The bottom-up approach of this treaty means that each government can design and determine its own climate mitigation targets and policies. But how can we compare and assess these various climate mitigation targets and policies? Are domestic targets, policies, and international commitments aligned? How do cities, regions, and subnational governments' policies compare and comply with this? What makes these policies credible? More importantly, are there specific elements that can explain or even predict when governments adopt climate mitigation policies that are consistent with the Paris Agreement? When and why do some governments have ambitious climate mitigation policies while others adopt incoherent, inconsistent, and unambitious ones? The objective of this panel is to address these questions from a comparative perspective. It seeks to discuss methodological avenues in mapping, comparing, and assessing climate mitigation policies as well as insights from various approaches in explaining variation across climate mitigation policies. Furthermore, the “first global stocktake affirmed that we are not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and the window for meaningful change quickly closing” (UNFCCC). Thus, this panel also seeks to address issues such as the “implementation gap,” “ambition gap,” and “fair share” regarding climate mitigation targets.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Mapping the Patterns in City-Utility Dynamics and Climate Action | View Paper Details |
| Institutional Pressures and Local Climate Policy Isomorphism in Ireland | View Paper Details |
| Subnational Mitigation Climate Targets in Multi-Level Governance Setting: Between Cooperation and Competition | View Paper Details |
| What Enables Climate Policy Innovation Under Authoritarian Regimes? Evidence from China’s Low-Carbon Pilot Cities | View Paper Details |
| Who Delivers on the Promise of Community Energy? Evaluating Niche–Regime Interactions in Swedish Energy Communities | View Paper Details |