POLA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peer Pressure, Collective Action, Neoliberalism
10 Apr 2018
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Try to broaden and internationalize climate action. Share information and best procedures as well as the capacity to build. Give expertise and resources for implementing new policies. Are cities most vulnerable to climate change. Part of c40 countries in connecting cities. Bottom up collaborative network policy: however, there are equity issues where one city has more of a say than others on the agenda like new york and london, benefits may not be spread as widely as you"d want. Not enough capacity to act due to lack of authority, influence and money or enforcement. Information sharing leads to better and cheaper action. Challenges: hard to measure quantifiable emission reduction in cities, casual change is long, under all this talk leads to action, if city networks didn"t exist would cities still be doing the same, a lot of efforts are indirect.
