Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? – Insights from Nepal’s Experience

Baniya, B; Aryal, PP

Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? – Insights from Nepal’s Experience

Baniya, B Aryal, PP

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Publisher:: Springer Nature
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Environ Manage, 2022, 70, (2), pp. 179-200
Issue Date:: 2022-04-23

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dc.contributor.author	Baniya, B
dc.contributor.author	Aryal, PP
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-13T02:55:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-28
dc.date.available	2023-04-13T02:55:31Z
dc.date.issued	2022-04-23
dc.identifier.citation	Environ Manage, 2022, 70, (2), pp. 179-200
dc.identifier.issn	0933-0437
dc.identifier.issn	1432-1009
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/169731
dc.description.abstract	Many low-income countries (LICs), including Nepal, endeavour to deliver climate mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving more sustainable resource consumption. However, their prospects of delivering on such goals alongside the rapid structural changes in the economy prevalent in the LICs are not clear. This research aims to better understand the underlying complexity in the linkage between the framing of climate mitigation actions into government policies and the prospects for their delivery. We use critical discourse analysis, post-structural discourse analysis, and thematic analysis of textual data corpus generated from government policies (n = 12) and semi-structured interviews (n = 12) with policy actors, such as government policymakers and private sector and non-government organisations’ representatives. We also develop energy and material consumption and GHG emissions models to predict their values up to 2050 via the R tools and machine learning algorithms that validate the accuracy of models. Our findings suggest that the social context of policymaking creates a knowledge structure on climate mitigation which is reflected in government policies. The policy actors and their institutions exchange their ideas and interests in a deliberative and collaborative environment to prioritise policies for the energy, forest, and transport sectors to deliver climate mitigation actions in Nepal. However, the energy sector, together with the agriculture sector, has insufficient climate mitigation actions. Reflecting on the high proportion of biomass in the energy mix and the rapid rise in fossil fuel and energy consumption per capita—both of which are driven by the remittance inflows—this research suggests measures to reduce these in an absolute sense.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.relation.ispartof	Environ Manage
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s00267-022-01643-6
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Ecology
dc.subject.mesh	Agriculture
dc.subject.mesh	Climate Change
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Effect
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Gases
dc.subject.mesh	Nepal
dc.subject.mesh	Policy
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Effect
dc.subject.mesh	Agriculture
dc.subject.mesh	Nepal
dc.subject.mesh	Climate Change
dc.subject.mesh	Policy
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Gases
dc.subject.mesh	Agriculture
dc.subject.mesh	Climate Change
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Effect
dc.subject.mesh	Greenhouse Gases
dc.subject.mesh	Nepal
dc.subject.mesh	Policy
dc.title	Can the Framing of Climate Mitigation Actions into Government Policies Lead to Delivering Them? – Insights from Nepal’s Experience
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	70
utslib.location.activity	United States
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2023-04-13T02:55:26Z
pubs.issue	2
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	70
utslib.citation.issue	2

Abstract:

Many low-income countries (LICs), including Nepal, endeavour to deliver climate mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving more sustainable resource consumption. However, their prospects of delivering on such goals alongside the rapid structural changes in the economy prevalent in the LICs are not clear. This research aims to better understand the underlying complexity in the linkage between the framing of climate mitigation actions into government policies and the prospects for their delivery. We use critical discourse analysis, post-structural discourse analysis, and thematic analysis of textual data corpus generated from government policies (n = 12) and semi-structured interviews (n = 12) with policy actors, such as government policymakers and private sector and non-government organisations’ representatives. We also develop energy and material consumption and GHG emissions models to predict their values up to 2050 via the R tools and machine learning algorithms that validate the accuracy of models. Our findings suggest that the social context of policymaking creates a knowledge structure on climate mitigation which is reflected in government policies. The policy actors and their institutions exchange their ideas and interests in a deliberative and collaborative environment to prioritise policies for the energy, forest, and transport sectors to deliver climate mitigation actions in Nepal. However, the energy sector, together with the agriculture sector, has insufficient climate mitigation actions. Reflecting on the high proportion of biomass in the energy mix and the rapid rise in fossil fuel and energy consumption per capita—both of which are driven by the remittance inflows—this research suggests measures to reduce these in an absolute sense.

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