Ideal Versus Reality: Questioning the Inclusivity of Climate Change Policy Innovation Process in the Turkish Context

Abstract

This research aims to reveal the extent on how governance culture is embedded in climate policy innovation processes in the Turkish context. In Turkey, the process deal with multilateral climate policies started in 2004, when the country announced to be a party of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, climate policies started to be developed in the 1990s, when the importance of governance began to gain considerable recognition. It is now possible to discuss to what extent governance-based approach has been followed in the processes of climate policy innovation until 2016, since it has been a quarter century from when the time both climate policies and governance began to take place on the public agenda in Turkey. In order to achieve its aim, the study focuses on the extent all related stakeholder groups participation in policy innovation processes in the case of the Coordination Board of Climate Change and Air Management (CBCCAM) through document analysis technique. The research reveals that governance culture has not been embedded in climate policy innovation processes in Turkish context. This study could help to provide a critical view of the embeddedness of governance culture in climate policy innovation processes through focusing on CBCCAM in Turkey.