Abstract

This article re-conceptualizes Climate Policy Integration (CPI) in the land use sector to highlight the need to assess the level of integration of mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies to minimize trade-offs and to exploit synergies. It suggests that effective CPI in the land use sector requires i) internal climate policy coherence between mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies; ii) external climate policy coherence between climate change and development objectives; iii) vertical policy integration to mainstream climate change into sectoral policies and; iv) horizontal policy integration by overarching governance structures for cross-sectoral coordination. This framework is used to examine CPI in the land use sector of Indonesia. The findings indicate that adaptation actors and policies are the main advocates of internal policy coherence. External policy coherence between mitigation and development planning is called for, but remains to be operationalized. Bureaucratic politics has in turn undermined vertical and horizontal policy integration. Under these circumstances it is unlikely that the Indonesian bureaucracy can deliver strong coordinated action addressing climate change in the land use sector, unless sectoral ministries internalize a strong mandate on internal and external climate policy coherence and find ways to coordinate policy action effectively.

Highlights

  • The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for a form of development that ‘combine[s] adaptation and mitigation to realize the goal of sustainable development’ (Denton et al, 2014))

  • This article contributes a revised conceptualization of climate policy integration (CPI) in the land use sector to highlight the need to assess the level of integration of mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies in order to minimize trade-offs and to exploit synergies

  • It suggests that effective CPI in the land use sector requires i) internal climate policy coherence between mitigation and adaptation objectives; ii) external climate policy coherence between climate change and development objectives; iii) vertical policy integration in the form of governance structures that facilitate mainstreaming of climate change into sectoral policies and; iv) horizontal policy integration by overarching governance structures for cross-sectoral coordination

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Introduction

The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for a form of development that ‘combine[s] adaptation and mitigation to realize the goal of sustainable development’ (Denton et al, 2014)). The literature on climate policy integration (CPI) has rarely examined the interactions between climate change adaptation and mitigation in depth. It has instead typically discussed mainstreaming climate change: integrating either climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation with sectoral policies (Adelle and Russel, 2013). The linkages between mitigation and adaptation are more often considered in studies by climate change and international development scholars

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