Assessing Climate Plans and Institutional Innovation Instruments for Climate Change (APIICC): climate governance risks: improving procedural instruments for adaptation of agriculture to climate change in the North and Global South

• Grant number: 23/03313-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: February 01, 2024 - January 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Convênio/Acordo: ANR
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo de Lima Caldas
• Grantee: Eduardo de Lima Caldas
• Principal researcher abroad: Gilles Massardier
• Institution abroad: Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alessandro Soares da Silva ; Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri ; Jean Paul Walter Metzger ; Livia Maria Kalil de Jesus

Abstract

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stresses the urgency of adapting to Climate Change, relayed by the 'Take urgent action' injunction of the 13th goal of United Nations. States efforts consist mainly in climate plans. But climate risk is amplified by a governance risk. The more the implementation of climate plans and policies and their change capacity are incremental, the more their failures and 'myopia' are proven, and the more the 'climate super wicked problem' becomes a 'tragedy', because time is dramatically running out. Climate governance is confronted to two major challenges that deals with political and policy temporalities : how to integrate long term climate impact into today's policy ? How to accelerate the implementation of climate plans? Literature identify two pathways to end this "tragedy": institutional innovation and reinforcement of authority, even noting that authoritarian environmentalism is more efficient than democracy. From the case of adaptation of agriculture, the main assumption of the project is that institutional innovation in the procedural instruments for climate governance is one of the main ways to end the 'tragedy'. However, there is a scientific weakness that prevents answering the APIICC project issues : i) the literature on institutional innovation in climate governance is scarce ii) or it states broad principles with little empirical knowledge ... iii) ... especially on procedural instruments (rarely observed, monographs) iv) or the themes on institutional innovation, procedural instruments, and political and policy temporalities are disconnected. (AU)