Carbon Management and Institutional Issues in …2. Cities, Europeanization, and multi-level...
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Carbon Management and Institutional Issues in European Cities
Kristine Kern
University of Minnesota
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Contents
1. Introduction: Climate change policy in Europe
2. Cities, Europeanization and multi-level governance
3. Governing climate change at the local level
4. Governing capacities of transnational city networks
5. Conclusions
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Climate change policy in Europe
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1. Introduction
Climate change policy in Europe
�EU climate change policy
�National climate change policy
�Regional climate change policy
�Local climate change policy
Climate change policy in the EU
Ireland
Greece
Germany
France
Finland
Denmark
Belgium
Austria
Member State
+22.7%+13.0%
+23.9%+25.0%
-17.5%-21.0%
-0.8%0.0%
+14.5%0.0%
-1.8%-21.0%
+0.7%-7.5%
+15.7%-13.0%
Emission reductions 1990/2004
Emission reduction targets (2008-2012)
EU Burden-Sharing Agreement (EU-15)Emission Reductions 1990/2004
Climate change policy in the EU
EU Burden-Sharing Agreement (EU-15)Emission Reductions 1990/2004
-8.0%
-12.5%
+4.0%
+15.0%
+27.0%
-6.0%
-28.0%
-6.5%
Emission Reduction Targets (2008-2012)
-0.9%EU-15 Total
-14.1%UK
-3.6%Sweden
+47.9%Spain
+41.0%Portugal
+1.6%Netherlands
+0.3%Luxemburg
+12.3%Italy
Emission reductions 1990/2004
Member State
Climate change policy in the EU
EU Burden-Sharing Agreement (EU-10)Emission Reductions 1990/2004
-32.0%-6%Hungary
-25.1%-8%Czech Republic
-0.8%-8%Slovenia
-30.3%-8%Slovakia
-31.6%-6%Poland
-60.1%-8%Lithuania
-58.5%-8%Latvia
-50.0%-8%Estonia
Emission reductions 1990/2004
Kyoto targetMember State
Sustainable development activity level in the German Länder
highlow2002medium2000high1990high2002Federal Government
lowlow1996––––low1999Rhineland-Palatinate
lowlow1998low1998/2003low2001/2004––Saxony
lowlow2001low1999/2005low1996/2002––Brandenburg
lowlow1997low1999low1998/2003––Saxony Anhalt
low––medium2002low1998low2003Saarland
mediumlow1997/1999––medium1995/2004medium2000/2004Schleswig-Holstein
mediumlow2001––medium(2000)medium1998Lower Saxony
mediummedium1997medium2003medium1994/2001low–Bremen
mediummedium1998medium2000/2005medium(2004)low2002Hesse
mediummedium1999/2000medium2001medium1997/2002medium2006Mecklenburg-
Western
Pommerania
mediummedium(2002)medium2003medium1990/2002medium2001/2003Hamburg
highhigh 1996––high2001/2005medium(2005)North Rhine-
Westphalia
highhigh1999/2000high1999/2004medium2000/2002medium2000Thuringia
highhigh1998/1999high1997medium1994/2000medium2000Baden-Württemberg
highhigh1997medium1998medium1994/2000high2006Berlin
highhigh1997/1998high1995/2000/2
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medium2000/2003high1997/2002Bavaria
Activity
level
Adoption/
revision in
Activity
level
Adoption/
revision in
Activity
level
Adoption/
revision in
Activity
level
Adoption/
revision in
Overall
activity level*
(4) Support of local
sustainable
development initiatives
(3) Voluntary agreement
(“environmental pact”)
(2) Climate protection
strategy, Climate action
programme
(1) Environmental plan,
sustainable
development strategy
(Landes-Agenda 21)Länder
Sustainable development in the German Länder
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Cities, Europeanization and multi-level
governance
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2. Cities, Europeanization, and multi-level governance
EU multi-level governance
�Competences shifted between different levels
�Authority dispersed between different levels and
different actors
�New forms of governance needed
�Boundaries between policy arenas become
blurred
�Actors pursue multi-level strategies
�Cities adapt to new opportunity structures
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2. Cities, Europeanization, and multi-level governance
Europeanization
�Complements multi-level governance approach
�Top-down perspective still dominates discussion
�Vertical top-down Europeanization
�Vertical bottom-up Europeanization
�Horizontal Europeanization
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2. Cities, Europeanization, and multi-level governance
Europeanization
�Cities establish own offices in Brussels
�Cities cooperate and apply for collaborative projects (EU funding)
�Commission depends on expertise of interest groups
�City networks can support implementation
�Supports exchange of experience between cities, transnational learning, development ofown standards
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Governing climate change at the local level
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3. Governing climate change at the local level
Multiple modes of governing
�Self-governing
�Governing by authority
�Governing by provision
�Governing through enabling
See handout: modes of governing
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3. Governing climate change at the local level
Findings (cities UK, Germany)
�Actions concentrated in the energy
sphere
�Municipalities deploy
- self-governing approaches
- enabling approaches
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3. Governing climate change at the local level
Limitations
�EU policy goals contradictory
�Financial crisis of cities (Germany)
�Political challenge of implementing local climate change policy
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Governing capacities of
transnational city networks
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Structure and function of transnational city networks
�Two main goals:
(1) Representation of their members’ interests
(2) Support of the exchange of experiences and
transnational learning
� In the 1990s period of growth, differentiation
and specialization of networks
�Phase of stabilization reached
4. Governing capacities of transnational city networks
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4. Transnational City Networks in Europe
Transnational city networks in the area of climate change policy
�Three transnational city networks active in the area of climate change policy (around 1,400 member cities)
�Founded in the early 1990s�General mission and goals almost identical�Reached phase of stabilization: differing
membership structure
�Spatial pattern of membership
4. Governing capacities of transnational city networks
Membership in transnational city networks in the area of climate
change policy
Members of the Climate Alliance
Members of the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
Members of Energie-Cités
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5. Governing Capacities of transnational City Networks
Forms of Governing
�Internal Governing
�External Governing
(1) Influence, (2) Interdependence,
(3) Intermediation
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5. Governing Capacities of Transnational City Networks
Internal governing capacities: Three forms
� Information and Communication
- selection and production of best practice
�Project cooperation and project funding
- intensifies cooperation, concentrated on
pioneers
�Recognition, benchmarking, and certification
- certification still limited to national networks,
concentrated on pioneers
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5. Governing Capacities of Transnational City Networks
Internal governing capacities: findings
�Hierarchy (regulation, control, sanction, coercion) not applicable
�Development of alternative governing modes- laissez-faire approaches - interventionist approaches
�Concentration on laissez-faire approaches- certification limited to pioneers
�Few active versus many passive cities
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5. Governing Capacities of Transnational City Networks
External governing capacities: Three Forms
� Influence (governmental institutions) - two-directional process (lobbying and consultation versus EU funding)
� Interdependence (non-governmental institutions) - competition and cooperation between networks - determined by EU
� Intermediation (local networks)- local activities depend on policy entrepreneurs- differences between active and passive cities
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Conclusions
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6. Conclusions: General
�Huge differences between local
authorities in Europe; generalizations
difficult
�Actions concentrated on energy policy
�Municipalities prefer self-governing and
enabling approaches
�Few active versus many passive cities
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6. Conclusions (2)
�Cities are part of the European multi-level governance
�Relationship between nation-states and cities in climate change policy
�Vertical top-down Europeanization has a similar impact on all cities and towns
�Vertical bottom-up Europeanization und horizontal Europeanization limited to pioneers
�Transnational city networks are networks of pioneers for pioneers
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