Transcript INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT

Exploratory Workshop on “European Climate
Change Governance – Towards New Alliances?”
in Hull on 2nd – 3rd July 2012
“New Alliances for European Climate Change
Governance, New Challenges for Research”
Rudi Wurzel (Department of Politics) and
Sally Eden (Department of Geography)
Main aims and objectives of the workshop:
• Explore the evidence for the emergence of new climate
change advocacy coalitions;
• Analyse effects of scale (EU, national and local/city region);
• Investigate the drivers for and barriers to the creation of
new climate change advocacy alliances in Europe;
• Assess ecological modernisation as a bridging concept;
• Consider how new alliances might best be conceptualised;
• Bring together academics and practitioners to explore these
and related issues from diverse viewpoints and different
conceptual perspectives.
Additional aims and objectives:
• Present and discuss research on new alliances
in European climate change governance;
• Facilitate the creation of an interdisciplinary
network;
• Encourage a constructive dialogue between
academics and practitioners;
• Explore opportunities for possible joint
(research and publication) projects and grant
applications.
Workshop sessions
• Session 1: How can new climate change coalitions
emerge?
• Session 2: New climate change coalitions at the EU
level
• Session 3b and 3c: New climate change coalitions at
the national and local EU level
• Session 4: Ecological modernisation through new
climate change governance coalitions?
• Session 5: Next steps – where to go from here?
Bridges and divides:
• Interdisciplinary research and disciplinary divides:
 For example, Geography and Politics
• NGOs and businesses
• Academics and practitioners
• Multi-level governance:
 International
 EU
 National
 Regional/city
Possible overarching/common themes?
• New climate change alliances:
 Advocacy coalition framework
 From government towards governance?
• Multi-level governance
• Policy learning and policy transfer
• Environmental pioneers and leaders
• New environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) and
new modes of governance (NMG)
• Ecological modernisation and its critics