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Title: BUTTERFLY MONITORING SCHEME (BMS) PLA DE SEGUIMENT DELS ROPAL


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Integrated Climate Governance (ICG) and
sustainable development.
J. David Tàbara Institute of Environmental
Science and Technology Autonomous University of
Barcelona Joandavid.tabara_at_uab.cat
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  • Actions aimed at developing adaptive capacities
    at the individual or local level may have
    negative impacts on mitigation.
  • Responses to climate problems will create new
    problems in new situations. Flexible,
    context-based, and multi-level adaptive
    processes, tools and methods are needed.
  • We need to go beyond framing policy-making from a
    problem-solution perspective to looking at it
    as embedded in social-ecological systems
    processes and feedbacks.

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A new global approach to climate appraisal and
action is needed
  • To appraise both climate risks and opportunities.
  • To deal with and integrate mitigation and
    adaptation.
  • To support the making of robust climate
    strategies at different governance levels.
  • To deal with synergies and trade-offs between
    multiple policy domains, sectors and scales.

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In a way that
  • Prevents problem shifting from one policy domain
    to another.
  • Supports fast transformations in individual
    practices and institutions.
  • Contributes to avoiding total socioecological
    system breakdown.

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Such an approach...
  • Is VERY urgent.
  • Is still missing.
  • Requires new partnerships, new framings, new
    mindsets and new spaces for interaction between
    science, policy making and the public.
  • Must go beyond representation (e.g. of impacts
    and trends) and support transformation.
  • Is possible, not impossible.

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Integrated Climate Governance
  • Background research projects
  • MATISSE Tools and Methods for Integrated
    Sustainability Assessment (ISA). On tools and
    methods to support transformative sustainability
    assessments from transition-based perspective.
  • www.matisse-project.net
  • ADAM Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies.
    Supporting EU climate Policy. On requirements for
    innovative climate appraisals.
    www.adamproject.eu
  • IRG-project. Integrated Risk Governance. On large
    scale risks that exceed current coping
    capacities.
  • www.irg-project.org

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Integrated Climate Governance
  • Is both
  • A heuristic device to analyse and identify
    existing gaps and potentialities in current
    practices related to climate and sustainability
    appraisals.
  • A normative integrative concept aimed at
    providing potential for innovation in climate and
    sustainability research, policy practice and
    communication.

Knowledge coordination and transformation
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Integrated Climate Governance
  • Can be defined as an approach which
  • Deals both with adaptation and mitigation.
  • Combines a plurality of legitimate but divergent
    interest and sources of knowledge.
  • Conceives climate change from a multi-scale,
    multi-level, multi-domain and transition-oriented
    perspective to support sustainable development.

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Integrated Climate Governance
  • With the explicit goals of
  • Assessing both climate risks and opportunities.
  • Designing and implementing transformative policy
    instruments and targets.
  • Supporting communication, agent engagement and
    transformation, and developing context-based
    climate capacities in a social learning mode.

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Integrated Climate Governance
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The main sources for social learning and
innovation
  • Do not derive from the practices that occur
    within each of these three domains but from the
    interactions between them e.g. through new
    institutions.
  • Such interactions should be held a different
    levels and deal with critical questions such as
    equity in global resource use and pollution.

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On dualistic languages, power and cultural
frameworks...
  • From a transition and social-ecological systems
    perspective, the conceptual distinction between
    economic, social and economic domains is rather
    useless to adequately understand the current
    sustainability challenges in a relational,
    systemic and integrated manner.

Economic
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Ecological
Social
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On power and choices of sustainability criteria
  • Ecoefficiency practices alone do not challenge
    the current power regimes but tend to reinforce
    them and are insufficient to deal with climate
    change.
  • To avoid rebound effects and meet the climate
    challenge, ecoefficiency and sufficiency (limits)
    needs to be combined at different levels of
    governance
  • SUSTAINABILITY ECOEFFICIENY SUFFICIENCY

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New tools and methods for ICG
  • Should not only focus on problem
    representation but support agent and
    institutional transformation.
  • Should not only ask what is the problem? but
    most importantly who is the problem?
  • Urgently need to support communication and help
    develop a new integrative non-dualistic language
    for transformative narratives and capacities.

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New tools and methods for ICG should assess
both stocks AND flows of social-ecological
systems states and dynamics
  • - Structures and rules (S)
  • - Energy and resources (E)
  • - Information and
  • knowledge systems (I)
  • - Accumulated change (C)
  • Zi system size (limits)

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Requirements and implications for ICG at
regional and local level
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I) Integrated Climate Governance demands above
all, institutional innovation, not just more
tools and methods
  • 1. More assessment tools, more information
    and communication and more policy measures is
    not enough if these still follow current BaU
    framings.
  • 2. New institutions are needed to enhance,
    integrate and coordinate interaction and REFRAME
    current practices, means and goals within and
    between science, policy and the public.

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II) To meet the challenges of ICG a more complex
institutional landscape is needed which
  • 1. Promotes greater engagement of local and
  • regional actors.
  • 2. Facilitates coordination of different levels
    of
  • action.
  • 3. Finds synergies and overcomes trade-offs and
  • contradictions between mitigation and
    adaptation.
  • 4. Takes into account the diversity of social-
  • ecological context conditions.

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III) Achieving climate goals and capacities may
constitute one of the best ways to achieve
sustainable development and avoid relativism
  • 1. Excessive social constructivism is a problem
    in sustainable development policies.
  • 2. Lack of legitimate institutions and
    appraisal processes for knowledge integration
    prevents decisive action in urgent matters
    related to sustainability -and reinforce existing
    power regimes.
  • 3. Climate change policy may provide the best
    change for setting transformative appraisal
    targets at different levels of action.

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IV) ICG policy instruments need to incorporate
robust knowledge about social-ecological systems
  1. Knowledge about the state and quality of existing
    stocks and flows of social-ecological systems
    resources needs to be incorporated in the making
    of policy measures.
  2. Policy instruments should be devised to address
    multiple constraints to support long-term
    transition goals in multiple domains.
  3. Should support long-term transformative options
    and goals at individual and institutional levels.

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  • The goals and means of ICG will never be
    predetermined, but will emerge as a result of
    social learning.

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  • The goals and means of ICG will never be
    predetermined, but will emerge as a result of
    social learning.

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Conclusions
  • ICG is possible not impossible.
  • Research and practice in ICG is urgent.
  • Climate change perhaps offers one of the best
    chances to reframe international relations, and
    in Europe, to ensure sustainable development in
    the long term. Such reframing entails moving away
    from the present market-based global competition
    towards a more sustainable development / climate
    global cooperation.

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