The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment
The Swedish climate policy framework as a means for climate policy integration: an assessment
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DOI：
10.1080/14693062.2021.1930510
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发表时间：
2021-07
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Simon Matti;C. Petersson;C. Söderberg
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作者：
Simon Matti;C. Petersson;C. Söderberg
摘要2017年6月通过的《瑞典气候政策框架》--包括新的《瑞典气候法案》--是否有助于推进气候减缓？如果是，在多大程度上以及在哪些方面？虽然瑞典经常被描述为气候工作的领跑者，但在通过气候政策框架和气候法之前的几项评估得出结论认为，瑞典气候政策在执行和监测方面存在缺陷，而且气候目标和战略不具有法律约束力。总的来说，这些赤字使得越来越难以将气候减缓置于其他部门政策之上的稳定、长期优先地位，从而限制了实现未来目标的可能性。本文着重于气候政策整合的三个方面--评估政策过程、产出和结果--旨在分析瑞典实施气候政策框架和气候法案后的政治发展和政策结果。对政策专家和高级别决策者进行的一系列全面访谈的结果表明，该框架被认为产生了重要影响，主要是在改变政策语言、跨部门协调和提高气候问题的优先次序方面。因此，本研究（1）有助于更好地从理论和经验上理解气候变化法案作为气候政策一体化的工具;（2）为未来的比较研究铺平了道路;（3）为政策制定者提供了重要的实践经验，说明法律的机制对实现气候减缓的影响。气候法案为政府的气候活动提供了一个法律的框架。评估气候法案的效果应采用一个包括评估过程、产出和结果三个维度的综合框架。瑞典气候政策框架和气候法案导致了一种弱型气候政策整合，表现出对气候政策辩论、协调、政策措施实施和政策支持的影响。该框架发出了应对气候变化的政治意愿的强烈信号，但《瑞典气候法》中没有纳入目标和工具，这引起了关于将实施哪些政策工具的辩论和不安全感
ABSTRACT Has the Swedish Climate Policy Framework – including the new Swedish Climate Act – adopted in June 2017, been conducive to advancing climate mitigation, and if so, to what extent and in which aspects? Although Sweden is often described as a frontrunner in climate work, several evaluations prior to the adoption of the Climate Policy Framework and the Climate Act concluded that Swedish climate policy has suffered from both implementation and monitoring deficits, as well as from the fact that climate goals and strategies were non-legally binding. Taken together, such deficits make the stable, long-term prioritizing of climate mitigation over other sector policies increasingly difficult, thus limiting the possibilities to reach future targets. This article focuses on three dimensions of climate policy integration – assessing policy processes, outputs and outcomes – with the aim to analyse political developments and policy outcomes in Sweden after the implementation of the Climate Policy Framework and the Climate Act. The results of a comprehensive set of interviews with policy experts and high-level decision-makers show that the framework is believed to have had important effects, mainly in terms of changing both policy language, cross-sector coordination, and increasing the prioritization of the climate issue. Thus the study (1) contributes to a better theoretical and empirical understanding of Climate Change Acts as instruments for climate policy integration; (2) paves the way for future comparative studies; and (3) presents important practical lessons for policy makers on the effects of legal mechanisms to achieve climate mitigation. Key policy insights Climate Acts provide a legal framework for governmental climate activities. A comprehensive framework including three dimensions of climate policy integration – assessing process, output and outcome, should be used to evaluate Climate Act effects. The Swedish Climate Policy Framework and Climate Act has induced a weak type of climate policy integration, showing effects on climate policy debate, coordination, policy measure implementation and policy support. The framework sends strong signals of political will to address climate change, but the non-inclusion of targets and instruments in the Swedish Climate Act is causing debate and insecurity regarding what policy instruments will be implemented