Legal and governance innovations for ambitious just transitions: Learning from design & implementation

This event seeks to reflect on essential climate governance functions and instruments that can be used to enhance ambition and policy coherence, limit backsliding and foster public participation while ensuring a just transition away from fossil fuels and towards socially acceptable renewable deployment. The cases of Iceland, Mexico and Spain will be presented.

Objectives

Purpose: building on Sridhar et al. (2022) this event seeks to reflect on essential climate governance functions (narrative and direction-setting; strategy articulation; expert advice; horizontal coordination; vertical coordination; sectoral integration; subnational integration; stakeholder consultation and engagement; finance; and accountability and transparency) and instruments that can be used to enhance ambition and policy coherence, limit backsliding and foster public participation while ensuring a just transition away from fossil fuels and towards socially acceptable renewable deployment. The case studies analysed include Iceland, México and Spain, a known leader on governance innovations and institutionalisation of just transition.

Moderator

Lara Lázaro Touza. Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute.

Speakers

• Alina Averchenkova. Distinguished Policy Fellow / London School of Economics and Political Science.
• MP Asa Hilmarsdóttir. Member of Parliament / Iceland
• Andrés Ávila. Executive Director of Environmental Policy and Legislation / POLEA / México.
• Lara Lázaro Touza. Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute / Spain.

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