Committing to Effective Climate Governance in Northern Ireland: A Defining Test of Devolution
Committing to Effective Climate Governance in Northern Ireland: A Defining Test of Devolution
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致力于北爱尔兰的有效气候治理：权力下放的决定性测试
DOI：
10.1093/jel/eqt003
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
S. Turner
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作者：
S. Turner
这是两部分分析的第二部分，探讨英国权力下放和国家低碳转型治理之间的相互作用。它认为，权力下放塑造了2008年《气候变化法》所创建的国家气候治理制度，但随着低碳需求的加剧，权力下放本身也将受到考验，甚至会发生变化。这种动态是在英国最发达地区的具体背景下探索的。第一篇文章认为，权力下放促进并可以说迫使北方爱尔兰的权力下放的行政当局给予高度合格的和潜在的虚幻的同意，以区域适用的联合王国法案。第二篇文章认为，对气候治理做出更有效的承诺将是对其权力下放安排的决定性考验，但需要旨在解决冲突的宪法安排成熟。如果不这样做，将对英国假定的“国家”低碳转型和该地区权力下放的长期可行性产生重要影响。
This is the second of a two-part analysis exploring the interaction between UK devolution and governance of the national low carbon transition. It argues that devolution shaped the national climate governance regime created by the Climate Change Act 2008, but will itself be tested and even altered as the traction of the low carbon imperative intensifies. This dynamic is explored in the specific context of the UK’s most devolved region. The first article argued that devolution facilitated and arguably forced Northern Ireland’s devolved administration to give a highly qualified and potentially illusory consent to the regional application of the UK Act. The second article argues that making a more effective commitment to climate governance will be a defining test of its devolution arrangements but will require constitutional arrangements designed for conflict resolution to mature. Failure to do so will have important implications for the UK’s putative ‘national’ low carbon transition and the longer-term viability of devolution in the region.