Protecting nature and the climate
A new study shows that this requires a whole range of measures. | © LMU
A combination of measures - from carbon pricing and fossil fuel taxation to research and investment in renewables - is the best route to effective climate action. This is the finding of an international study that compared climate policies in 40 countries over decades and has appeared in the journal Climate Policy. The research team, which includes experts from LMU and the Universities of Barcelona, Lausanne, and Oslo, examined policies and their effects on the climate over a period of 32 years.
"As governmental climate policy efforts are expanding, evaluating their effectiveness has become increasingly challenging due to numerous coexisting policies," explains Professor Christoph Knill, Chair of Empirical Theories of Politics at LMU and co-author of the study. In particular, it is difficult to consider the effects of individual policy instruments in isolation because the effects of numerous other measures also play a role. "The aim of our study was to conduct a country-specific evaluation to determine which climate action policies can bring the greatest benefits."
