The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking
Abstract Climate policymakers across the world seek inputs from the research community to determine appropriate policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which perform the largest available analytical exercise in this a...
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| author | Hector Pollitt Jean-Francois Mercure Terry Barker Pablo Salas Serban Scrieciu |
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| description | Abstract Climate policymakers across the world seek inputs from the research community to determine appropriate policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which perform the largest available analytical exercise in this area, offer scarce analytics on climate policy design. Here, we explore how, despite its ‘neutral, policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive’ principle, the IPCC’s analytical scenario process in Working Group III on Mitigation has adopted an implicitly prescriptive policy position in favour of carbon pricing. Drawing on the example of alternative climate-economic modelling using the E3ME-FTT framework, we explore a pathway for the IPCC process that could cater for diverse ranges of more realistic granular policies. We conclude that, to become truly policy-relevant, the IPCC’s climate mitigation work is in urgent need of reform to provide more effective support for policy design. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e64b23de47345529e339e39273be0f72024-01-21T12:39:56ZengNature Portfolionpj Climate Action2731-98142024-01-01311910.1038/s44168-023-00094-xThe role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymakingHector Pollitt0Jean-Francois Mercure1Terry Barker2Pablo Salas3Serban Scrieciu4World BankWorld BankUniversity of East AngliaCEENRG, University of CambridgeBartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College LondonAbstract Climate policymakers across the world seek inputs from the research community to determine appropriate policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which perform the largest available analytical exercise in this area, offer scarce analytics on climate policy design. Here, we explore how, despite its ‘neutral, policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive’ principle, the IPCC’s analytical scenario process in Working Group III on Mitigation has adopted an implicitly prescriptive policy position in favour of carbon pricing. Drawing on the example of alternative climate-economic modelling using the E3ME-FTT framework, we explore a pathway for the IPCC process that could cater for diverse ranges of more realistic granular policies. We conclude that, to become truly policy-relevant, the IPCC’s climate mitigation work is in urgent need of reform to provide more effective support for policy design.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00094-x |
| spellingShingle | Hector Pollitt Jean-Francois Mercure Terry Barker Pablo Salas Serban Scrieciu The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking npj Climate Action |
| title | The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| title_full | The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| title_fullStr | The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| title_short | The role of the IPCC in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| title_sort | role of the ipcc in assessing actionable evidence for climate policymaking |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00094-x |
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