Explaining Transformative Change in ASEAN and EU Climate Policy

Download or read book Explaining Transformative Change in ASEAN and EU Climate Policy written by Charanpal Bal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paris Agreement embodies a flexible approach to global cooperation, aimed at encouraging ever more ambitious climate action by a variety of players on all levels of governance. Regional organizations play an important role in mobilizing such action. This Element provides novel insights into the conditions under which policy entrepreneurs can bring about transformative policy change in regional settings, with a focus on the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It finds that opportunity structures in the EU have been conducive to successful climate-progressive policy entrepreneurship at several key junctures, but not consistently. In contrast, the ASEAN governance context provides few access points for non-elite interests, making it fiendishly difficult for policy entrepreneurs to push for substantive policy change in the face of powerful domestic veto players. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.