Global public policy transfer: the translation climate change instruments to São Paulo

• Grant number: 22/14272-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2023
• End date: May 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Osmany Porto de Oliveira
• Grantee: Osmany Porto de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Osasco. Osasco , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant(s): 24/23181-5 - International Conference on Public Policy 7, AR.EXT

Abstract

The literature on global public policies has gained space in discussions on public policy studies. The concept is used to analyze responses to problems that affect people on a global scale, such as hunger, poverty, health crises, among others. Examples of global public policies are the United Nations agendas, such as the New Urban Agenda or the 2030 Agenda. Climate instability is one of the most complex and imminent problems of contemporary times. Global public policies, aimed at mitigating the evolution of climate instability and helping society adapt to this situation, are embedded in a complex transnational architecture. Among the main pillars of this architecture are the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. One of the paradoxes of global public policies for the climate concerns the fact that it is a global risk, which is experienced at the local level. This research aims to understand the transfer of global public policies to the climate in the city of São Paulo. More specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions: Why the city of São Paulo decided to transfer global climate change policies? Which mechanisms facilitated or constrained the process? Who participated in the transfer process and in which way? What was transferred and how? This research proposes to make an innovative analysis based on the association between the literature on global public policies, policy transfers and instruments of public action. The methodological strategy is carried out through a comparative study, which will use the process-tracing technique, as an analytical tool, and interviews, research in official documents and the media, as instruments for the collection of empirical evidence. (AU)