Abstract
Climate policy has a strong influence on policy processes at national levels in Indonesia, while other policies with a focus on air quality improvement are being implemented at local levels. Indonesia as a developing country has committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 29 percent by the year 2030. This calls into question the extent to which cities and local governments can cope with the challenges of climate change mitigation. The purpose of the research is to find out the extent to which local air pollution reduction policies can contribute to the climate change mitigation program. The research design involved an empirical case study on governance and policy relevant to climate change efforts to lower GHG in Bandung City, Indonesia. The study evaluated the air quality improvement and the climate change mitigation programs using the actor-based framework of the Contextual Interaction Theory (CIT). The governance and stakeholder characteristic of climate change mitigation were also analysed using the structural context part of the CIT framework. The result shows that air quality improvement policy is implemented separately from climate policy; the latter operates at the national level and the former at the local level. By looking at the actor interaction analysis, the study concludes that a more holistic environmental policy approach would be more efficient at reducing local air pollution and contributing to the mitigation of climate change.
Highlights
Global climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, and the lack of availability of water and food due to population density pressures are factors that magnify disasters
The climate change mitigation already conducted at the local level is more focused on solid waste management and tree planting
Despite the lack of actors who understand about air quality improvement in the transport sector and their mutual co-benefits in lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a possibility to synergize the local programs emerges from the local perspectives
Summary
Environmental degradation, poverty, and the lack of availability of water and food due to population density pressures are factors that magnify disasters. These should be avoided, mitigated and thoroughly managed, in developing countries [1,2,3]. Rapid population growth and broadening of human activities have had a detrimental effect on the climate because of anthropogenic emissions sources. Transportation is one sector that emits greenhouse gases (GHGs) and contributes significantly to climate change and air pollution. Increasing motor vehicle use in cities, in developing countries, increases fuel consumption and, GHGs emissions. The transport sector contributes 26% of global CO2 emissions and is one of the few sectors where emissions are still growing [4]
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