TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Widerberg, Oscar A1 - Lederer, Markus A1 - Pattberg, Philipp H. T1 - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration N2 - Scholars have recently devoted increasing attention to the role and function of international bureaucracies in global policymaking. Some of them contend that international public officials have gained significant political influence in various policy fields. Compared to other international bureaucracies, the political leeway of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been considered rather limited. Due to the specific problem structure of the policy domain of climate change, national governments endowed this intergovernmental treaty secretariat with a relatively narrow mandate. However, this article argues that in the past few years, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat has gradually loosened its straitjacket and expanded its original spectrum of activity by engaging different sub-national and non-state actors into a policy dialogue using facilitative orchestration as a mode of governance. The present article explores the recent evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat and investigates the way in which it initiates, guides, broadens and strengthens sub-national and non-state climate actions to achieve progress in the international climate negotiations.
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The Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has lately adopted new roles and functions in global climate policymaking. While previously seen as a rather technocratic body that, first and foremost, serves national governments, the Climate Secretariat increasingly interacts with sub-national governments, civil society organizations and private companies to push the global response to climate change forward. We contend that the Climate Secretariat can contribute to global climate policymaking by coordinating and steering the initiatives of non-nation-state actors towards coherence and good practice. KW - climate change KW - environmental policymaking KW - intergovernmental relations KW - international bureaucracies KW - sub-national and non-state actors Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852319840425 SN - 0020-8523 SN - 1461-7226 VL - 87 IS - 1 SP - 21 EP - 38 PB - Sage CY - Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Lederer, Markus T1 - Einleitung: Harald Fuhr - visionärer Grenzgänger mit Leidenschaft, Eingebung und Augenmaß JF - Leidenschaft und Augenmaß : sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Entwicklung, Verwaltung, Umwelt und Klima : Festschrift für Harald Fuhr Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-8487-5249-2 SP - 13 EP - 21 PB - Nomos CY - Bade-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Elsässer, Joshua Philipp T1 - New alliances in global environmental governance BT - how intergovernmental treaty secretariats interact with non-state actors to address transboundary environmental problems JF - International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics N2 - The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, non-profit entities, and the private sector. Authors concerned with global environmental politics have made considerable progress in capturing this phenomenon. Nevertheless, we still lack in-depth empirical knowledge on the precise nature of such institutional interlinkages across governance levels and scales. Building upon the concept oforchestration, this article focuses on the relationship between specific types of international bureaucracies and actors other than the nation-state. In particular, we investigate how the secretariats of the three Rio Conventions reach out to non-state actors in order to exert influence on the outcome of international environmental negotiations. Our analysis demonstrates that the three intergovernmental treaty secretariats utilize various styles of orchestration in their relation to non-state actors and seek to push the global responses to the respective transboundary environmental problems forward. This article points to a recent trend towards a direct collaboration between these secretariats and non-state actors which gives rise to the idea that new alliances between these actors are emerging in global environmental governance. KW - global environmental governance KW - institutional interplay KW - intergovernmental treaty secretariats KW - orchestration KW - Rio Conventions KW - non-state actors Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-020-09493-5 SN - 1567-9764 SN - 1573-1553 VL - 20 IS - 3 SP - 459 EP - 481 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lederer, Markus A1 - Höhne, Chris A1 - Stehle, Fee A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Fuhr, Harald ED - Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W. ED - Andersen, Mikael Skou ED - Tobin, Paul T1 - Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia BT - domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South T2 - Climate governance across the globe : Pioneers, leaders and followers N2 - Focusing on forest policy and urban climate politics in Brazil and Indonesia, the primary objective of this chapter is to identify domestic pioneers and leaders who, compared to other sectors, governmental levels or jurisdictions within the same nation-state, move ‘ahead of the troops’ (Liefferink and Wurzel, 2017: 2-3). The chapter focuses especially on the role of multilevel governance in bringing about pioneership and leadership and on the different types of that have emerged. It also explores whether and, if so, to what extent domestic pioneers and leaders attract followers and whether there are signs of sustained domestic leadership. The chapter identifies the actors that constitute pioneers and leaders and assesses the processes which lead to their emergence. The chapter authors take up Wurzel et al.’s (2019) call to open up the black box of the nation-state. But instead of stressing the role of non-state actors, the chapter authors focus on vertical interactions among different governmental levels within nation states. The main argument put forward is that international and transnational processes, incentives, and ideas often trigger the development of domestic pioneership and leadership. Such processes, however, cannot be understood properly if domestic politics and dynamics across governmental levels within the nation-state are not taken into account. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-003-01424-9 SN - 978-0-367-65047-6 SN - 978-0-367-43436-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014249 SP - 101 EP - 119 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chan, Sander A1 - Boran, Idil A1 - van Asselt, Harro A1 - Iacobuta, Gabriela A1 - Niles, Navam A1 - Rietig, Katharine A1 - Scobie, Michelle A1 - Bansard, Jennifer S. A1 - Delgado Pugley, Deborah A1 - Delina, Laurence L. A1 - Eichhorn, Friederike A1 - Ellinger, Paula A1 - Enechi, Okechukwu A1 - Hale, Thomas A1 - Hermwille, Lukas A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Honegger, Matthias A1 - Hurtado Epstein, Andrea A1 - Theuer, Stephanie La Hoz A1 - Mizo, Robert A1 - Sun, Yixian A1 - Toussaint, Patrick A1 - Wambugu, Geoffrey T1 - Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance JF - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews : Climate change KW - climate change KW - governance KW - nonstate actions KW - SDGs KW - sustainable development Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.572 SN - 1757-7780 SN - 1757-7799 VL - 10 IS - 3 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas T1 - Rezension zu: Andonova, Liliana B: Governance Entrepreneurs: International Organizations and the Rise of Global Public-Private Partnerships. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. - XI,275 S. - ISBN 978-1-107-16566-3 JF - Global environmental politics Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_r_00510 SN - 1526-3800 SN - 1536-0091 VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 175 EP - 177 PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Partzsch, Lena A1 - Pattberg, Philipp H. A1 - Weiland, Sabine T1 - Introduction BT - A political science perspective on the Anthropocene T2 - The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science N2 - Over the past decades, it has become more and more obvious that ongoing globalisation processes have substantial impacts on the natural environment. Studies reveal that intensified global economic relations have caused or accelerated dramatic changes in the Earth system, defined as the sum of our planet’s interacting physical, chemical, biological and human processes (Schellnhuber et al. 2004). Climate change, biodiversity loss, disrupted biogeochemical cycles, and land degradation are often cited as emblematic problems of global environmental change (Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015). In this context, the term Anthropocene has lately received widespread attention and gained some prominence in the academic literature Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-351-17412-1 SN - 978-0-8153-8614-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351174121 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bansard, Jennifer S. A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Kern, Kristine T1 - Pathways to urban sustainability BT - How science can contribute to sustainable development in cities JF - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society N2 - Recent years have seen a considerable broadening of the ambitions in urban sustainability policy-making. With its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, the 2030 Agenda stresses the critical role of cities in achieving sustainable development. In the context of SDG17 on partnerships, emphasis is also placed on the role of researchers and other scientific actors as change agents in the sustainability transformation. Against this backdrop, this article sheds light on different pathways through which science can contribute to urban sustainability. In particular, we discern four forms of science-policy-society interactions as key vectors: 1. sharing knowledge and providing scientific input to urban sustainability policy-making; 2. implementing transformative research projects; 3. contributing to local capacity building; and 4. self-governing towards sustainability. The pathways of influence are illustrated with empirical examples, and their interlinkages and limitations are discussed. We contend that there are numerous opportunities for actors from the field of sustainability science to engage with political and societal actors to enhance sustainable development at the local level. KW - cities KW - science-policy interactions KW - SDG 11 KW - sustainable development KW - urban sustainability Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.28.2.9 SN - 0940-5550 VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 112 EP - 118 PB - Oekom Verlag CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Stehle, Fee T1 - The Embeddedness of Urban Climate Politics in Multilevel Governance BT - a Case Study of South Africa’s Major Cities JF - The journal of environment & development : a review of international policy N2 - Numerous scholars have lately highlighted the importance of cities in the global response to climate change. However, we still have little systematic knowledge on the evolution of urban climate politics in the Global South. In particular, we lack empirical studies that examine how local climate actions arise in political-administrative systems of developing and emerging economies. Therefore, this article adopts a multilevel governance perspective to explore the climate mitigation responses of three major cities in South Africa by looking at their vertical and horizontal integration in the wider governance framework. In the absence of a coherent national climate policy, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban have developed distinct climate actions within their jurisdictions. In their effort to address climate change, transnational city networks have provided considerable technical support to these cities. Yet, substantial domestic political-economic obstacles hinder the three cities to develop a more ambitious stance on climate change. KW - climate change KW - developing and emerging economies KW - local climate policy making KW - multilevel governance KW - South Africa KW - transnational city networks Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496518819121 SN - 1070-4965 SN - 1552-5465 VL - 28 IS - 1 SP - 54 EP - 77 PB - Sage Publ. CY - Thousand Oaks ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Partzsch, Lena A1 - Pattberg, Philipp H. A1 - Weiland, Sabine T1 - Conclusion BT - Towards a 'deep debate' on the Anthropocene T2 - The anthropocene debate and political science Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0-8153-8614-8 SP - 237 EP - 251 PB - Routledge CY - London ER -