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Leveraging Climate Action in Developing Countries:A six step programme
Simon MaxwellClimate and Development
Knowledge Network
1. What’s the problem and why is it difficult to solve?
2. How theory helps
3. Applications to CCD: a six step programme
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What’s the problem and why is it difficult to solve?
‘Climate compatible development means reducing poverty and securing human development in a way which reduces the extent of climate change, and also helps societies to adapt to inevitable change’
Climate Compatible Development
“The whole life of policy is a chaos of purposes and accidents”
Clay, E. J. and Schaffer, B. B. (eds.) (1986) Room for Manoeuvre, An Explanation of
Public Policy in Agriculture and Rural Development. Heinemann: London.
How theory helps - 1
How theory helps - 2
1. Policy process analysis
2. Political economy analysis
Models of Policy Change
• Linear Model• Policy Space / Room for
manoeuvre• Policy as social
experiments• Street level bureaucracy• Disjointed incrementalism• Tipping Point
• Crisis model• Communities of
practice / Policy networks
• Mixed scanning model• Policy as argument• Interactive model (policy
reform as a process) • Policy Narratives
Four Styles of Policy Entrepreneurship
(a) The story-teller (b) The networker
(c) The engineer (d) The fixer
Some examples: How did we do that?
• MDGs
• Business and Development
Leadership
Good ideas
Finance
The capacity to
deliverPeer
pressure
Public opinion
Motivating staff
Incentives
Institutions
Self-interest
Applications to CCD: a six step programme
1. Find the ‘win-wins’ – e.g. energy efficiency.
2. Look for co-benefits – e.g. reduced pollution, energy security, congestion.
3. Frame as risk management– e.g. threats to exports, climatic disasters.
4. Emphasise opportunities – e.g. renewables.
5. Build and use civil society – e.g. ‘reverse lobbying’.
6. Above all - lead.
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