Climate Policy Innovation: Sources, Patterns, and Effects

Abstract

The current pace of climate policy development is widely regarded as inadequate and policy development needs to speed up. In this respect, ‘policy invention’ refers to the development of entirely new policies. ‘Policy diffusion’, on the other hand, encompasses the processes through which these inventions, which may emerge at a relatively small scale, circulate and gradually become embedded in a larger number of policy systems and start having greater impacts. Innovation is here understood as a combination of invention and diffusion, and the concept refers to a level of policy change that requires alteration of the cognitive and normative underpinnings of policies. Somewhat against the trend of placing emphasis on transnational policy development, this panel especially invites empirical analysis of national (state) policies.

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