The Politics of Climate Policy Expansion and Dismantling

Abstract

The study of climate policy has advanced a lot in recent years. This holds true mostly with regard to the adoption of new targets, policies and policy instruments to curb carbon emissions. Less well understood are instances where policies that are already in place (e.g., fossil fuel subsidies) are weakened or entirely dismantled, which often is politically less feasible. Most importantly, existing literature still lacks a clear understanding of drivers of and barriers to policy adoption and dismantling. Given the still significant ‘gap’ between current mitigation efforts and the Paris commitments, there is an urgent need to better understand the politics of climate policy adoption and dismantling. This involves studying the reasons and motivations that determine politicians’ and political parties’ decision-making on climate policy and how it is affected by differences in political systems (i.e., more or less democratic, including those of a more authoritarian nature).

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