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| Author(s): |
de Macedo, Laura S. Valente
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Jacobi, Pedro Roberto
;
de Oliveira, Jose A. Puppim
Total Authors: 3
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE; v. 3, n. 1, p. 30-pg., 2023-03-01. |
| Abstract | |
Multilevel climate governance (MCG) makes room for multiple non-state actors, including subnational governments, to engage actively in international activities that are conceptualised as paradiplomacy. As climate urgency increases, subnational climate actions have expanded through transnational networks and have attracted ample studies, primarily on such practices in Europe and North America. This study, as a response, aims to expand knowledge of city diplomacy in less-studied developing countries and uses Brazil as one example. It examines climate policies in Brazilian cities, particularly in four cases (Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Sao Paulo) to understand their roles in global climate governance and how their paradiplomatic activities through transnational municipal networks (TMNs) affect the municipal and national agendas. Our research demonstrates that even though Brazil's federative model has fallen short of adequately integrating cities into the national climate agenda, national and transnational municipal networks have been essential to building capacities, disseminating good practices and influencing climate policy at the national level. It further reflects on how to improve the dialogue with the federal level in the context of developing countries and to obtain support for climate-related urban initiatives while contributing to implementing international climate commitments. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/50425-9 - Understanding innovative initiatives for governing food, water and energy nexus in cities |
| Grantee: | José Antonio Puppim de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/20714-1 - Understanding innovative initiatives for governing food, water and energy nexus in cities |
| Grantee: | Laura Silvia Valente de Macedo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |