Expanding climate policy adoption improves national mitigation efforts.

ABSTRACT: To identify means to improve mitigation efforts, we investigated whether the number of climate policies is associated with emission projections up to 2030 and compared policies' prevalence across country groups. We find that larger and more comprehensive policy portfolios are conducive to emission reductions, regardless of whether absolute emissions increase or already decline. However, country groups have distinct entry points to expand climate policy. Countries with fast-increasing emissions have significantly fewer policies overall but policies are especially missing in energy-demand sectors, such as buildings and transport. Countries with stalling emissions lack climate strategies and other cross-sectoral policies. This suggests the need for better coordination of mitigation efforts ac

SUBMITTER: Nascimento L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10250858 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature