Research Article
COP21 Implementation: Strategies or “Muddling Through”
Jan-Erik Lane*
Fellow with Public Policy Institute in Belgrade, Address: 10 Charles Humbert, 1205 Geneva
*Corresponding author: Jan-Erik Lane, Fellow with Public Policy Institute in Belgrade, Address: 10 Charles Humbert, 1205
Geneva; E-mail: janeklane@gmail.com
Article Information: Submission: 17/01/2016; Accepted: 11/02/2016; Published: 19/02/2016
Copyright: © 2016 Lane JE. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
Abstract
The COP21 Agreement among the governments of the world obliges them to initiate the process of halting or reducing the emission of greenhouse
gases, especially CO2:s by 2018-2020. In the social sciences, the commitment calls for decentralised policy-making by the states or nations. The technical
term is policy implementation. But the lessons from the policy sciences is that implementation, viz successful implementation is hard to come by. Avoiding
lengthy and transaction costly discussions about economic policy measures, the article suggests a simple administrative solution: Dismantle coal fired power
stations as much as possible; put strong filters on the remaining ones until they can be abandoned; compensate the biggest emitters of CO2 from the new
super fund. Awaiting the massive transfer from fossil fuels to renewables will be too slow process for stemming climate change, however desirable this is.
