Dataset Information

Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? - Insights from Nepal's Experience.

ABSTRACT: Many low-income countries (LICs), including Nepal, endeavour to deliver climate mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving more sustainable resource consumption. However, their prospects of delivering on such goals alongside the rapid structural changes in the economy prevalent in the LICs are not clear. This research aims to better understand the underlying complexity in the linkage between the framing of climate mitigation actions into government policies and the prospects for their delivery. We use critical discourse analysis, post-structural discourse analysis, and thematic analysis of textual data corpus generated from government policies (n = 12) and semi-structured interviews (n = 12) with policy actors, such as government policymakers and private sector and non-government organisations' representatives. We also develop energy and material consumption and GHG emissions models to predict their values up to 2050 via the R tools and machine learning algorithms that validate the accuracy of models. Our findings suggest that the social context of policymaking creates a knowledge structure on climate mitigation which is reflected in government policies. The policy actors and their institutions exchange their ideas and interests in a deliberative and collaborative environment to prioritise policies for the energy, forest, and transport sectors to deliver climate mitigation actions in Nepal. However, the energy sector, together with the agriculture sector, has insufficient climate mitigation actions. Reflecting on the high proportion of biomass in the energy mix and the rapid rise in fossil fuel and energy consumption per capita-both of which are driven by the remittance inflows-this research suggests measures to reduce these in an absolute sense.

SUBMITTER: Baniya B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9034080 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Similar Datasets

Project description:Climate change-induced disasters show the highest risk for agriculture and livelihoods in rural areas of developing countries. Due to changing rainfall pattern, the arid and semiarid region of Pakistan faces frequent droughts. Farming communities affected by drought disasters are causing serious threats to livelihood, global food crises, environmental migration, and sustainable development. The existing study was designed to quantify two key components through (1) analysis of agrometeorological data (1981-2017) with exploratory data analysis and Mann-Kendall trend analysis; (2) extensive field survey (200 households). The multivariate probit model has been run to detect determinants of coping and adaptive strategies by farmers. Our results showed that the farmers supposed that temperature and rainfall were highly fluctuating in recent years equally. Farmers adopted different coping and adaptive measures that include crop diversification, input adjustment, water management, asset depletion, income diversification, and migration to sustain their livelihood during stress periods. The agrometeorological data analysis revealed that the agricultural vulnerability to drought risks increased significantly, and the survey results projected that 64.7% of the population is exposed to drought directly or indirectly. Sen's slope quantification resulted in (0.025 °C) rise in temperature, (- 2.936 mm) decline in rainfall year-1. Modeling future scenarios resulted in an increase in temperature up to 0.7 °C, 1.2 °C, and a decrease in precipitation up to 161.48 mm, 103.5 mm in 2040 and 2060. The study evaluated a huge gap in the provision of drought risk resilience services, crop insurance, and climate-smart training practices to build capacities among farmers to cope with the impacts of extreme weather conditions. Our research might provide the groundwork to upgrade actions to drought prevention and early warning in water scarcity areas.Supplementary informationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11069-021-04913-4.

Project description:BackgroundModeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious and health-protective climate change mitigation actions; however, documenting the adverse health effects can help to avoid them. Estimating the health effects of mitigation (HEM) actions can help policy makers prioritize investments based not only on mitigation potential but also on expected health benefits. To date, however, the wide range of incompatible approaches taken to developing and reporting HEM estimates has limited their comparability and usefulness to policymakers.ObjectiveThe objective of this effort was to generate guidance for modeling studies on scoping, estimating, and reporting population health effects from climate change mitigation actions.MethodsAn expert panel of HEM researchers was recruited to participate in developing guidance for conducting HEM studies. The primary literature and a synthesis of HEM studies were provided to the panel. Panel members then participated in a modified Delphi exercise to identify areas of consensus regarding HEM estimation. Finally, the panel met to review and discuss consensus findings, resolve remaining differences, and generate guidance regarding conducting HEM studies.ResultsThe panel generated a checklist of recommendations regarding stakeholder engagement: HEM modeling, including model structure, scope and scale, demographics, time horizons, counterfactuals, health response functions, and metrics; parameterization and reporting; approaches to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis; accounting for policy uptake; and discounting.DiscussionThis checklist provides guidance for conducting and reporting HEM estimates to make them more comparable and useful for policymakers. Harmonization of HEM estimates has the potential to lead to advances in and improved synthesis of policy-relevant research that can inform evidence-based decision making and practice. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6745.

Project description:The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nepal 2015 institutionalizes the sovereign right of the people and the right to autonomy, shared rule and self-rule via the three levels of government: federal, provincial, and local. Accordingly, to deliver service to the local residents and to assure the residents of the practice of self-rule, the constitution has given state powers to the local levels with 22 exclusive mandates and 15 concurrent competencies and mandates. However, being the new practice in the Nepalese context, for implementing the delegated authority, related laws are to be formulated by the concerned local level. In this study, I assessed if the five local levels of Kaski district: Pokhara Metropolitan, Annapurna Rural Municipality, Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality, Madi Rural Municipality, and Rupa Rural Municipality in the first five years of their establishment formulated the requisite laws concerning the 22 local-level powers. I conducted a questionnaire survey and in-person interviews with the elected members of the local levels. The result revealed that during the first five years of operation (2017-2022), Pokhara Metropolitan formulated 98 laws, Annapurna Rural Municipality made 34 laws, Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality made 54 laws, Madi Rural Municipality made 88 laws, and Rupa Rural Municipality made 56 laws. The laws formed by the five local levels were of mainly two categories. The laws of the first category were related to the legal set-up of the local governments for the smooth functioning of administrative affairs which were almost identical across the five local levels. The laws of the second category were specific to the local level and thus apparently distinctive from each other, however, those laws were aimed towards providing service to the local residents, meeting the distinctive development aspirations of the local people and fulfilling the needs of local self-governance. Despite the deficiency of expertise in law-making and the limitation of resources, the local levels have laid a foundation for the functioning of local-level government. Although the local units of the Kaski district have put their best effort into formulating laws, they are yet insufficient to ensure the delivery of all the 22 constitution-delegated rights of the local residents. Therefore, the newly elected government should keep priority in formulating the remaining laws not only for the smooth functioning of the local government but also to assure the residents of the aspiration of self-governance and the constitution-granted rights.

Dataset Information

Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? - Insights from Nepal's Experience.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets