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{"title":"Comparing clubs: Analyzing ambitions in the G7 and the G20","authors":"Simon Høiberg Olsen ,&nbsp;Eric Zusman ,&nbsp;Charlotte Unger ,&nbsp;Erin C. Kawazu ,&nbsp;Nobue Amanuma ,&nbsp;Matthew Hengesbaugh ,&nbsp;Chika Aoki-Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mini-lateral ‘clubs’ occupy an increasingly prominent place in the international environmental governance landscape. Yet few studies have looked at how differences between clubs influence the results they produce. This paper aims to fill this gap in understanding by testing hypotheses on how different clubs' membership constellations and leadership (connected to large events) affect ambitions in outcome documents of the G7 and the G20. It tests those hypotheses by employing text and data analytic techniques to compare stated ambitions in environmental documents of G7 and G20 over the past two decades. The analysis reveals that the G7’s language is generally stronger than the G20; and that strategic leadership connected to large events may contribute to raising those ambitions. These findings highlight the importance of mini-lateral clubs as forms of environmental governance and, more generally, illustrates the use of text mining in environmental governance research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100195"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811623000320/pdfft?md5=c6462fb5b9e0a304c7401415ae348b27&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811623000320-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92136084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does the professionalisation of farmer collectives enable effective agri-environmental schemes? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 36 Dutch farmer collectives","authors":"L. Dik ,&nbsp;G. Bazzan ,&nbsp;C.J.A.M. Termeer ,&nbsp;H.A.C. Runhaar","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agriculture is the main land use and one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. In particular, intensive farming practices have contributed to biodiversity loss, which is why many governments have implemented agri-environmental schemes (AES). Farmer collaboration at landscape level is important to achieve effective AES. The Dutch government opted for such an approach and decided that only farmer collectives were entitled to take part in AES. In this paper, we evaluate 36 Dutch farmer collectives. Through the lens of professionalisation, we investigated which characteristics of professionalisation enable farmer collectives to work towards an effective AES in terms of collaboration at landscape level. We used spatial concentration of conservation measures as a measurement of an effective AES and, based on expert judgement, selected five characteristics of professionalisation that directly impact AES effectiveness. We applied a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in order to explore which of these characteristics singly or in combination contribute most to spatial concentration. We found that different combinations of characteristics of professionalisation enable farmer collectives to work towards spatial concentration. First, we found that working on the maintenance and development of qualifications of participants is for most farmer collectives important to work on more spatial concentration. Second, the combination of having a strategy for agrobiodiversity in combination with working on the qualifications of the field workers is important. And when the network capability or the presence and use of enabling systems are missing, the qualifications of the field workers is important. Based on our findings, we conclude that the qualifications of participants and fieldworkers (i.e., regional coordinator, ecologist and field officer) are the most important characteristics of professionalisation to contribute to spatial concentration at the moment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49702072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caught between path-dependence and green opportunities – Assessing the impetus for green banking in South Africa","authors":"Carsten Elsner ,&nbsp;Manuel Neumann","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As investors and financial intermediaries, private banks are increasingly confronted with climate change concerns. But to what extent do banks identify as the changemakers driving climate alignment forward? To advance this question, this paper analyzes the South African banking sector with a specific focus on Standard Bank and Nedbank as exemplary case studies. Relying on the concept of ‘climate mainstreaming’, we critically assess the banks' annual reports and compare their self-portrayal with publicly available sources on the bank's business practices, chiefly provided by non-governmental organizations and media. We find that Nedbank pushes a holistic narrative of climate change as an inevitable business opportunity. Standard Bank, in turn, relies on a ‘narrative of balance’ between climate change and other profit-oriented investments to safeguard its stakes in the fossil industry. In so doing, this paper sheds light on greenwashing practices within disclosure specifically and the lack of binding corporate regulation more generally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49702069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing science-based targets: Reformist and radical discourses in an Earth system governance initiative","authors":"Sasha Quahe ,&nbsp;Sarah E. Cornell ,&nbsp;Simon West","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are being developed for companies to contribute to global sustainability goals, including for ‘nature’. The literature has not yet explored multiple understandings of SBTs. We adopt an interpretive approach, using Q methodology to explore framings of SBTs amongst 22 scientists and practitioners engaged in SBT development. Results show two distinct framings: ‘we need science-based targets to help economic systems move towards global sustainability’ and ‘the system itself is unsustainable and needs to change – science-based targets can help’, with areas of agreement and disagreement. They lean towards reformist or radical discourse, at times weaving them together. What kinds of ‘transformation’, if any, are SBTs capable of driving? Conceptualising SBTs as a boundary object, we suggest that sustainability transformations involve paradoxical tensions, including where actors appeal to the powerful to drive change, but this inhibits the most radical discourses. We conclude with potential implications for sustainability science and governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100196"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49702124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Laure Gosselin","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100193"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49702121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Specialist environmental courts and tribunals: A systematic literature review and case for earth system governance analysis","authors":"J. Michael Angstadt,&nbsp;Maddison S. Schink","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100192"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47790653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fostering transparency? Analysing information disclosure in transnational regulatory climate initiatives","authors":"Laura Iozzelli","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of the first Paris Agreement's global stocktake, transnational regulatory climate initiatives hold the potential to catalyse states' action and boost the process' transparency. However, transnational initiatives' own transparency has been questioned. This article investigates the transparency of 56 initiatives by focusing on the ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of the information disclosed. The analysis underscores limits pertaining to both elements. To explain variation, the article correlates transparency with the initiatives' type of actors, type of regulatory activity, number of functions performed and size and identifies what constellations of factors better explain transparency and lack thereof via a Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Large initiatives which involve public actors and perform multiple functions are more strongly linked with transparency. Other factors do not yield significant effects. By identifying areas for improvement in regulatory initiatives' transparency, the article contributes to a better understanding of their role in the stocktake process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100189"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49758850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Farming out’ biodiversity: Implementing EU nature law through agri-environmental schemes","authors":"Edwin Alblas,&nbsp;Josephine van Zeben","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>European Union (EU) nature conservation law mandates the protection of more than 2000 species and habitats. Many of these species and their habitats rely on agricultural land, which means that Member State implementation of EU nature law necessarily interacts with national agricultural policies. The integration of EU biodiversity goals into sector-level and farm-level agricultural policies is therefore commonplace and, seemingly, in line with the discretion awarded to Member States. However, each stage of this multi-level implementation process brings the opportunity for goal dilution such that this may ultimately undermine the ambitions of the EU's nature conservation laws.</p><p>This article adds to existing literature on multi-level implementation through an empirical case study of the Dutch implementation of binding EU nature law through an agri-environmental scheme. In the Dutch model, implementation takes place through national and provincial governmental agri-environmental policies as well as implementing actions of (private) agricultural collectives. Our data confirms that that the degree of discretion of each actor within a multi-level implementation setting strongly affects overall goal dilution and goal achievement. By incorporating appropriate controls and monitoring at each governance level, benefits of multi-level implementation can be achieved while dilution and divergence are minimized.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100180"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44399266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does climate finance enhance mitigation ambitions of recipient countries?","authors":"Sungida Rashid ,&nbsp;Mizan R. Khan ,&nbsp;Nabil Haque","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>International public climate finance is an important catalyst for curbing growing emissions from developing countries and enabling them to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Developing countries consider the fulfillment of their Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges to be conditional on receiving climate finance. Prior studies have hypothesized that increasing financial support to developing countries will likely increase their climate ambitions. With the availability of updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and climate finance data, this article empirically explores this question. Using two empirical strategies, this article found positive but statistically insignificant effect of climate finance on the mitigation ambitions of recipient countries. This effect on mitigation ambition was higher for least developed countries but weaker for small island developing states. This article's analysis should be seen as an initial piece of the puzzle. Findings of this article can inform climate financing strategies of donors enhancing trust with developing countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100188"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47071760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of climate change and energy policy in Japan: Is green transformation likely?","authors":"Hiroshi Ohta ,&nbsp;Brendan F.D. Barrett","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While being proud of comparatively high levels of energy efficiency and having experienced the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it may be presumed that Japan would become a leader in the global energy transition. On the contrary, however, Japan has demonstrated a degree of intransigence around deep decarbonization. Why does Japan not take leadership in the energy transition and arrest climate change? What is the context for Japanese climate/energy policymaking? What is the context for the 2050 net-zero target, what are the obstacles, and which actors could assist effectively in accelerating this transition? This article considers new drivers for national policy as well as the influence of exogenous domestic and international forces. This leads to the question of whether the 2050 carbon neutrality policy goal could deliver a rapid shift away from fossil fuels. It presents an analytical framework to explain Japan’s evolving climate-energy nexus, illuminating core variables hampering and enabling the attainment of the net-zero 2050 target.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100187"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49705638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}