The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbon taxes and emissions trading systems), by mapping the states and sub- and supranational entities having adopted such policies and use a framework drawing on theories of policy diffusion and policy processes to explain the adoption of carbon pricing in two cases: Sweden and Mexico.
Jakob Skovgaard has also together with researchers from the Danish Institute of International Studies, Stockholm Environment Institute & the Chr Michelsen Institute (Bergen) received funding from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Share or Spare? Explaining the Nature and Determinants of Climate Finance Coordination".
The project examines why the coordination of climate finance (finance to assist poor countries to transition to low-emission, climate-resilient societies) is often absent or unsuccessful by investigating the political and organizational factors that shape such coordination on the global level as well as in the cases of Kenya and Zambia.
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