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Objective: give guidance to municipalities in climate mitigation and adaptation policies. | Objective: give guidance to municipalities in climate mitigation and adaptation policies. | ||
| + | Evaluate the applicability and appeal of international climate policies on local level. | ||
| + | Evaluate different roles and the effect of the roles on the appeal. | ||
| + | Understand the reasons for appeal or non-appeal of climate policies by different players in the society based on the impacts of the policies. | ||
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Revision as of 16:10, 18 April 2013
Contents
Application for climate change and environmental policy
- Application to SYKE and UEF, deadline 19.4.2013.
Introduction
Climate mitigation policy has a dilemma. It has been widely accepted by citizens and politicians that large and effective actions must be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Still, the international agreements achieved have been much weaker than hoped for, the most dramatic disappointment being the Copenhagen climate summit ##nimi? 2009. One important reason for this under-productivity is the fact that the societal decision making methods are not able to absorb all available information, and that scientific community is unable to produce the information in a useful format for decision making. #REF Mikko? As an example of the latter, Al... from IPCC has said that ."our task is to show facts, not give policy recommendations" #REF
The proposed work aims to reduce the gap between the information need by decision makers and the information supply by experts and other people. This is done by utilising novel impact assessment methods, tools, and participatory approaches. The focus is on the decision support, i.e. on work, practices, and information needed to give a rich, scientifically sound understanding to decision makers about the options they have and the estimated impacts of these options.
The focus of the work is at the municipality level. This is because many climate actions are taken locally, and also many of the effects of these actions (e.g. transport solutions, urban structure, fine particle emissions, or green spaces) also affect locally.
Objectives of research
City level climate policy assessment Objective: give guidance to municipalities in climate mitigation and adaptation policies. Evaluate the applicability and appeal of international climate policies on local level. Evaluate different roles and the effect of the roles on the appeal. Understand the reasons for appeal or non-appeal of climate policies by different players in the society based on the impacts of the policies.
Materials and methods
Key areas: energy prosuction and consumption. Traffic. Urban structure and buildings. Previous work: Claih academy project on housing energy and indoor issues. Urgenche with building structure model and energy balance. Yva directive update as legislative framework: assessments as basis for de isions. Climate adaptatiion stratwgy of finland? Maybe not if focus is on mitigation. But it can be both. Tekaisu decision support method: objectiveness. Causality. Object oriented. Falsification. Openness. Reusability.
Previous publications. Pragmatic knowledge services. Tekaisu method (in finnish). Sota of env health & food.
Expertise and facilities
Memberships: yvad group. Climate adaptation. Climate forum. Tekaisu sab. PI of THL and WP leader in Urgenche project.
Experience in writing statements about legislation (YVA, Ympäristönsuojelulaki).
Opasnet web-workspace for actual work.
HINKU forum is a potential collaborator.
