Experiments in EU Climate Governance: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Covenant of Mayors

Author:

Domorenok Ekaterina1,Acconcia Giuseppe2,Bendlin Lena3,Campillo Xira Ruiz4

Affiliation:

1. Ekaterina Domorenok is an associate professor of political science at the University of Padua. Her research interests mainly concern policy design, implementation, and learning in multilevel settings, with particular regard to European Union policies for climate, sustainability, and cohesion. Her most recent book, Governing Sustainability in the EU: From Political Discourse to Policy Practices (2

2. Giuseppe Acconcia is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies (SPGI) of the University of Padua. He holds a PhD from the University of London (Goldsmiths). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California (UCLA) and a lecturer at the Universities of Bocconi, Padua, and Cattolica of Milan. He was a research fellow for the projec

3. Lena Bendlin studies urban transformations and sustainability innovations at the German Institute for Urban Affairs, Berlin. She obtained a doctorate in political science from Freie Universität Berlin, where she taught numerous courses on European environmental and climate policy. She holds a Franco-German double degree in European studies from Sciences Po Lille and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ

4. Xira Ruiz Campillo is a lecturer of international relations at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on the transformation of cities in their fight against climate change, climate diplomacy in the European Union, and the impact of climate change in human security. Her book (as editor) The Transformation of the European Union: The Impact of Climate Change in European Policies

Abstract

Abstract Over the last decade, a growing body of academic literature has reflected on how and under which conditions experiments in global climate governance lead to broader changes in rules, norms, and practices helping to meet the challenge of climate change. Drawing on the assumptions of the scholarship on experimentalist governance architectures, this article analyzes the effectiveness of the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) as a comprehensive governance framework that enables the development and coordination of local policies for sustainable energy and climate through a range of joint instruments for recursive goal setting, monitoring, and benchmarking. Our findings illustrate the CoM’s significant potential in terms of both general political uptake and policy output, which could make of this program, if appropriately fine-tuned, a successful governance experiment contributing to building a more effective global climate regime.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Political Science and International Relations,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Global and Planetary Change

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