Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models
The Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development require unprecedented transformations to sustainability, while maximising synergies and minimising trade-offs between the two agendas. The policy studies and sustainability transition literatures suggest that addres...
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| author | Ines Dombrowsky Gabriela Ileana Iacobuţă Vassilis Daioglou Dorothee Keppler Bjoern Soergel Isabelle Weindl Elmar Kriegler |
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| description | The Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development require unprecedented transformations to sustainability, while maximising synergies and minimising trade-offs between the two agendas. The policy studies and sustainability transition literatures suggest that addressing the complex policy interlinkages requires ambitious, coherent, comprehensive and credible policy mixes supported by synergistic combinations of governance modes. We investigate to which extent these assumptions are reflected in quantitative scenarios produced with integrated assessment models. As a case study, we assess a new set of target-seeking sustainable development pathway (SDP) scenarios. We scrutinise the modelling protocols and the scenario results to analyse the extent to which these modelled SDPs represent governance modes and policy instrument types and purposes, and assess the resulting policy mix characteristics. As such, we bridge the scenario modelling and policy mix literatures and provide an initial pathway appraisal. We find that the modelled SDPs use policy mixes to constrain negative side-effects of unmitigated climate measures to achieve several SDGs simultaneously. The policy mixes speak to several policy mix characteristics. However, they are only partially spelled so far and their credibility remains limited. This calls for additional policy-translation efforts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1b2a9d3eaed3485da2218f329b90b9b92024-12-17T14:22:36ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262024-01-0120101403010.1088/1748-9326/ad993aPolicy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment modelsInes Dombrowsky0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3420-6117Gabriela Ileana Iacobuţă1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-7337Vassilis Daioglou2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6028-352XDorothee Keppler3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8751-6955Bjoern Soergel4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2630-7081Isabelle Weindl5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7651-6930Elmar Kriegler6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3307-2647German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) , Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, GermanyGerman Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) , Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, GermanyPBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency , PO Box 30314, 2500, GH The Hague, The Netherlands; Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University , Princetonlaan 8a, 3584, CS Utrecht, The NetherlandsPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association , PO Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, GermanyPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association , PO Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, GermanyPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association , PO Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, GermanyPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association , PO Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany; Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam , Potsdam, GermanyThe Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development require unprecedented transformations to sustainability, while maximising synergies and minimising trade-offs between the two agendas. The policy studies and sustainability transition literatures suggest that addressing the complex policy interlinkages requires ambitious, coherent, comprehensive and credible policy mixes supported by synergistic combinations of governance modes. We investigate to which extent these assumptions are reflected in quantitative scenarios produced with integrated assessment models. As a case study, we assess a new set of target-seeking sustainable development pathway (SDP) scenarios. We scrutinise the modelling protocols and the scenario results to analyse the extent to which these modelled SDPs represent governance modes and policy instrument types and purposes, and assess the resulting policy mix characteristics. As such, we bridge the scenario modelling and policy mix literatures and provide an initial pathway appraisal. We find that the modelled SDPs use policy mixes to constrain negative side-effects of unmitigated climate measures to achieve several SDGs simultaneously. The policy mixes speak to several policy mix characteristics. However, they are only partially spelled so far and their credibility remains limited. This calls for additional policy-translation efforts.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad993apolicy instrumentspolicy mixesgovernance modessustainable development pathwaysintegrated assessment modelsParis agreement |
| spellingShingle | Ines Dombrowsky Gabriela Ileana Iacobuţă Vassilis Daioglou Dorothee Keppler Bjoern Soergel Isabelle Weindl Elmar Kriegler Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models Environmental Research Letters policy instruments policy mixes governance modes sustainable development pathways integrated assessment models Paris agreement |
| title | Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models |
| title_full | Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models |
| title_fullStr | Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models |
| title_short | Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models |
| title_sort | policy mixes for sustainable development pathways representation in integrated assessment models |
| topic | policy instruments policy mixes governance modes sustainable development pathways integrated assessment models Paris agreement |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad993a |
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