The USA government implements climate policy on both a Federal and Regional (States) level. I found this report and thought it would be helpful for all my #climatechange advocate friends. The report, Age of Experiments: How states and regions are developing the next generation of climate and energy policies, examines the nature of these sub-national policy experiments – as well as what it will take for them to contribute to the large-scale impacts that are needed. Key highlights include: The new generation of climate and energy policies being developed by states and regions are motivated by local needs, aimed at overcoming specific barriers, and designed to do more with less government spending. Two policies that exemplify this trend are Connecticut’s Green Bank and South Australia’s Adaptation Framework. The former attracted US$180 million in new private investment for clean energy last year, while the latter has seen every region of the state commit to an adaptation planning process. In order for these new policy models to contribute to the large-scale impacts that are needed to tackle climate change, they must spread beyond their original borders. This process can be accelerated through global learning, and by overcoming specific barriers to adoption. Evan Juska, Head of US Policy for The Climate Group, author of the report, said: “Uncertainty has always been a central feature of climate policymaking. But it’s this very uncertainty that argues for a greater degree of policy innovation and experimentation at every level of government: national, state and regional, city, and local. “With a greater focus on facilitating global learning and overcoming barriers to policy adoption, a great opportunity exists for today’s sub-national policy experiments to achieve scale, enable further action, and ensure that the new generation of policies is more successful than the past.” Libby Ferguson, States & Regions Director, The Climate Group, said: This report highlights that when looking for the next generation of climate policies, we should not ignore the incredible developments happening within state and regional governments. Download link. theclimategroup.org/_assets/files/States-Regions-Innovation-Report.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:08:19 +0000
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