The paper that I propose is aimed to explain the Commission Co-Ordinating Climate Change Policies as an instrument of multilevel management of climate change as a shared matter. The forum, that was created unilaterally by central power, by the law 1/2005 of 9th of March, establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading -transposition of directive 2003/87/EC-, is described as an instrument for the cooperation and coordination of the measures developed by the central power and the Autonomous Communities.
In short, the paper will be directed to show:
-The functioning of this forum of intergovernmental relations.
-The margin of action or manoeuvre that Autonomous Communities have on it and the capacity of decision.
-The way how the activity of the forum impacts on the climate change policies of the Autonomous Communities -and of the whole State too-.
- And, finally, the paper will lead to evidence some changes that the Commission Co-Ordinating Climate Change Policies would need. Those changes would be focused to become it a forum where competent levels of Government can collaborate to face the global problem and the challenge of climate change.
The final object will be to show what is the Commission Co-Ordinating Climate Change Police created for. In fact, the doubt is wetter it is formed to achieve a more coherent, effective and efficient management of the climate change policy, ending with unnecessary duplicity and overlapping; or wetter it is shaped to expanding the central level of competence. That’s the reason why it will be necessary to emphasize the imprecise system of distribution of competences established for the environmental and climate change matters between State and Autonomous Communities; the way that Spanish intergovernmental relations works; and the lack of collaboration in shared competences in Spain.
