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tillsammans med kollegor i det nyligen avslutade ADAM-projektet utvärderar Roger Hildingsson och Johannes Stripple klimatpolitik i sex EU medlemsländer i artikeln ”Navigating the dilemmas of climate policy in Europe: evidence from policy evaluation studies” som nyligen publicerats i tidskriften Climatic Change.

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tillsammans med kollegor i det nyligen avslutade ADAM-projektet utvärderar Roger Hildingsson och Johannes Stripple klimatpolitik i sex EU medlemsländer i artikeln ”Navigating the dilemmas of climate policy in Europe: evidence from policy evaluation studies” som nyligen publicerats i tidskriften Climatic Change.

Abstract
Climate change is widely recognised as a ‘wicked’ policy
problem. Agreeing and implementing governance responses is proving
extremely difficult. Policy makers in many jurisdictions now emphasise
their ambition to govern using the best available evidence. One
obvious source of such evidence is the evaluations of the performance
of existing policies. But to what extent do these evaluations provide
insights into the difficult dilemmas that governors typically
encounter? We address this question by reviewing the content of 262
evaluation studies of European climate policies in the light of six
kinds of dilemma found in the governance literature. We are interested
in what these studies say about the performance of European climate
policies and in their capacity to inform evidence-based policy-making.
We find that the evaluations do arrive at common findings: that
climate change is framed as a problem of market and/or state failure;
that voluntary measures tend to be ineffective; that market-based
instruments tend to be regressive; that EU-level policies have driven
climate policies in the latecomer EU Member States; and that lack of
monitoring and weak enforcement are major obstacles to effective
policy implementation. However, we also conclude that the evidence
base these studies represent is surprisingly weak for such a high
profile area. There is too little systematic climate policy evaluation
work in the EU to support systematic evidence-based policy making.
This reduces the scope for sound policy making in the short run and is
a constraint to policy learning in the longer term.

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