Greening recovery – Overcoming policy incoherence for sustainability transformations

Author:

Gottenhuber Sara12ORCID,Linnér Björn‐Ola12,Wibeck Victoria12ORCID,Persson Åsa13

Affiliation:

1. Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change Linköping University Linköping Sweden

2. Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research Linköping University Linköping Sweden

3. Stockholm Environment Institute Stockholm Sweden

Abstract

AbstractPolicy coherence is crucial in the 2030 Agenda's transformative ambitions and heralded as of paramount importance to ensure the successful implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and climate policy targets. Despite political efforts to achieve policy coherence, apparent trade‐offs and goal conflicts have emerged – even in a proclaimed ‘front‐runner’ country like Sweden. This paper examines the role of ideas in proposing and legitimising policy options and achieving policy coherence in the light of the Swedish recovery debate in 2020 following the COVID‐19 pandemic. Ideas of a green economic recovery put forward in the public debate are examined through thematic text and frame analysis. We show that ideas of a green transition, boosted by economic recovery spending, draw on a synergistic frame in combining social, environmental, and economic policy options, carrying a potential for coherency. However, the absence of a discussion on power, as in who stands to gain what under which circumstances, coupled with an inherent understanding of a temporal hierarchy of policy priorities does not only impact the ability to design coherent policies but may have considerable impacts on the prospects of achieving sustainability transformations.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Geography, Planning and Development

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