Abstract
Using Indonesia's energy sector as case study, we explore the effects of the domestic measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) system as a manifestation of national level climate transparency. We examine the ways in which MRV facilitates state actors' reflexive capacity to recognize, reflect on, and respond to the demand for mitigation-related information emanating from global climate governance processes. Our results show that engagement with Indonesia's domestic MRV system enhanced actors' capacities to reorganize institutional arrangements, including competing rules and practices; recalibrate data and information systems; reprioritize the deployment of available resources; and reformulate policy and strategy. These reflexive responses illustrate the range of potential MRV-associated effects that can be realized in a domestic context, beyond simply generating and reporting information. We conclude that while the generation of transparency has yet to directly enhance domestic mitigation action, it facilitates improvement of informational and executive systems and infrastructures that support mitigation policies.
Highlights
Transparency is becoming ever more important in national and in ternational climate policy and diplomacy
We examine the kinds of reflexive capacities that MRV enables or enhances for Indonesian policy-makers working in the energy sector
We focus on how these actors identify and react to demands for information generated by the domestic MRV system, critically reflect upon what this information says about their mitigation activities, and subsequently respond by taking certain measures and adopting strategies to improve the implementation of mitigation activities
Summary
Transparency is becoming ever more important in national and in ternational climate policy and diplomacy. Earth System Governance 9 (2021) 100111 regarding their performance, are enabled to self-critically, deliberately and continuously reconsider and reconfigure their actions (Meadowcroft and Steuer 2013; Dryzek and Pickering 2017; Feindt and Weiland 2018) Based on this reflexive logic, domestic MRV systems may aid in gener ating timely and relevant information that can enable policy-makers to reflect on and take action to improve climate change mitigation per formance.. We give an overview of Indonesia’s domestic MRV system before presenting our results on how MRV facilitates reflection on and reflexive responses to technical, institutional, resource-related and policy-related challenges for climate mitigation We synthesize these results through developing a typology of four reflexive responses, and discuss how these provide a broader understanding of the role of domestic MRV systems in climate action, beyond its core function of enhanced
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