Transcript Integrating Climate Mitigation Into Sustainable

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Institutional coordination of climate
change policy: Lessons from the South
African experience
B.A.S.I.C Project
Beijing
Michael Goldblatt
18th February 2006
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Paper structure
Structure
 Background
 Problem statement
 South African situational analysis
 South African experience with a multistakeholder approach
 Review of other country experiences
 Conclusion
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Background
Context of the paper
 Task 3 addresses the challenge of policy
coherence and institutional coordination with
regards to policy and implementation responses
to climate change
 Relationship to other tasks
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Problem statement
 Outline
 Description of the problem of preparing and implementing
climate change policy in a developing country context
 Character of the climate change issue
 The character of the climate change issue is a particular one and
poses substantial challenges to policy formulation and to the
development of societal consensus and institutional
coordination. The key characteristics of the climate change issue
will be outlined, including:
 Long term
 Cross sectoral
 Multi-disciplinary
 Strong interest groups
• Small numbers of losers and dispersed winners
 National/International disjuncture
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South African situational analysis
 Analytical framework
 This section will draw on the framework prepared by the German
Development Institute (d.i.e.) for analyzing environmental capacity
development. Including:
 Actors: proponents and opponents of special issues. The nature and the
relative power of the various actors will be described and discussed.
 Strategy: the general approach to the problem and the purposeful use of
available resources to achieve long-term goals
 Structural framework conditions: the opportunity structure of the various
actors. This includes issues relating to knowledge and information about the
problem; the political and institutional conditions in which the actors operate;
and the economic and technological possibilities and constraints.
 Situational context: specific factors of the current situation that may hinder or
promote policy change and development
 Description
 Description of the South African situation in some detail
 Stakeholders
 Focus on the stakeholder/actors involved in developing and responding
to climate change policy and their relative power
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South African experience with a multistakeholder approach
 South African policy development experience
 SA experience with the National Climate Change
Coordinating Committee and the Government
Committee on Climate Change
 Methodology
 Based on examination of the history of the NCCC and the
GCCC through its minutes and through interviews with key
participants on the committee
 Question posed: have the NCCC and GCCC been useful
forums for addressing the problem statement as
characterized?
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Cross country comparison
Review of other country experiences
 Briefly describe the approach taken in the other
BASIC countries to addressing the problem of
coordinating an institutional response to climate
change
 Based on the questionnaire and follow up
discussions at the workshop and over email
with the other country teams
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Conclusion
Conclusion
 Conclusions and possibly recommendations on
approaches to providing coordinated responses
to climate change.
 The paper will not provide specific institutional
models as recommendations but rather try to
describe the problem better and hence provide
some insight into locally valid solutions
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Thanks and apologies for the delay in
preparation of the paper
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