In person icon Climate and Energy Policy in Turbulent Times

Abstract

The unpredictability and profound uncertainty of the climate transition present a challenge for policymakers. The situation is turbulent in the sense that events, demands and support interact in highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected and unpredictable ways (Ansell and Trondal 2018: 53). In addition to turbulence in other policy areas (e.g., financial crises and pandemic), we assume that climate governance in itself causes turbulence. Hence, we invite papers that address the relationship between turbulence and policy-making in the climate and energy field. Research questions include whether turbulence should be considered a problem or a basic condition that drives solutions forward or as something rather dysfunctional – and how. Ansell et al. (2017) suggests that turbulence may reinforce existing organizational and institutional patterns, disrupt them, lead to patterns of institutional hybridity, recombinations or improvisations. How is this in the climate and energy field? How do different actors – whether public authorities, interest groups or civil society – live with or handle turbulence? How do climate and energy policies at different scales pose challenges for policy-making at other levels in a multi-level system – such as the European Green Deal and its effects on member states – or even for external jurisdictions, such as when the carbon border adjustment mechanisms creates protests in third countries (Leiren and Farstad 2024). Assuming that turbulence might arise at different stages of a policy-making process, it is also of interest to understand how turbulence manifests itself at different stages in a policy process (see for example, Boasson, Leiren and Wettestad 2021).

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