The European Green Deal aims to make the European Union (EU) the first climate neutral continent by 2050. Even if climate change is a global challenge, it requires a sustainable energy transition through local interventions, evidencing its glocal nature. Additionally, while mitigation is a global concern, adaptation is mostly addressed locally. Accordingly, the EU recognizes the need to address climate change challenges using multi-level governance approaches, integrating activities placed at different jurisdictional levels, from local to international, through collaborations between multiple actors, where local levels lead the implementation of EU and national policies, and climate initiatives are diffused and upscaled through networking. As one of the most important European funds aimed to concretize the EU environmental policy objectives, the LIFE Programme clearly focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation through specific sub-programmes for the climate, using a collaborative approach. In fact, LIFE projects are usually proposed by partnerships of actors who share resources to reach a common goal. Exploring multi-level connections which enable collaborations for climate actions that are supported by realizing LIFE projects, helps identify the best composition of actors able to stimulate effective collaborative initiatives for the climate. Discerning mitigation from adaptation projects, this study aims to: (i) verify if LIFE projects promote multi-level governance in both sectors, (ii) identify what jurisdictional level leads collaborations for the climate through LIFE projects. By identifying 197 LIFE project partnerships implemented in the 2014-2020 period, we analyze 911 relationships between 925 actors using Social Network Analysis. Results confirm the presence of multi-level collaborations in both mitigation and adaptation LIFE projects and reveal national actors transversally suited to lead collaborations for both mitigation and adaptation projects, supported by local actors in adaptation initiatives, highlighting the strategic role of national actors as bridges between European initiatives and their local realization.

Multi-level collaborations in the European climate governance: a network analysis of LIFE projects partnerships.

Elena Andriollo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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Elena Pisani
2022

Abstract

The European Green Deal aims to make the European Union (EU) the first climate neutral continent by 2050. Even if climate change is a global challenge, it requires a sustainable energy transition through local interventions, evidencing its glocal nature. Additionally, while mitigation is a global concern, adaptation is mostly addressed locally. Accordingly, the EU recognizes the need to address climate change challenges using multi-level governance approaches, integrating activities placed at different jurisdictional levels, from local to international, through collaborations between multiple actors, where local levels lead the implementation of EU and national policies, and climate initiatives are diffused and upscaled through networking. As one of the most important European funds aimed to concretize the EU environmental policy objectives, the LIFE Programme clearly focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation through specific sub-programmes for the climate, using a collaborative approach. In fact, LIFE projects are usually proposed by partnerships of actors who share resources to reach a common goal. Exploring multi-level connections which enable collaborations for climate actions that are supported by realizing LIFE projects, helps identify the best composition of actors able to stimulate effective collaborative initiatives for the climate. Discerning mitigation from adaptation projects, this study aims to: (i) verify if LIFE projects promote multi-level governance in both sectors, (ii) identify what jurisdictional level leads collaborations for the climate through LIFE projects. By identifying 197 LIFE project partnerships implemented in the 2014-2020 period, we analyze 911 relationships between 925 actors using Social Network Analysis. Results confirm the presence of multi-level collaborations in both mitigation and adaptation LIFE projects and reveal national actors transversally suited to lead collaborations for both mitigation and adaptation projects, supported by local actors in adaptation initiatives, highlighting the strategic role of national actors as bridges between European initiatives and their local realization.
2022
Energy and Climate Transformations: 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science
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