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Are The Cop21 Objectives Implementable?

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Policy implementation is often difficult to achieve, especially in a heavily decentralised structure, policy analysts like Wildavsky & Sabatier suggested. Now, the international community is going to guide a large number of governments or states towards the accomplishment of the COP21 objectives, although no governance mechanisms have yet been set up or identified. The implementation process for the COP21 Agreement must now start in order to have any chance of succeeding with its main objective of a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions until 2030. Actually, this process of implementation is expected to go on for the entire century, as COP21 promises a carbon free economy sometime after 2050. I argue that it is likely that many governments will only deliver small changes in emission decreases, but keep enough fossil fuel energy sources in order to maintain some positive rate of economic growth. Complete decarbonisation of entire societies is a figment of Sachs¡¯ imagination concerning ¡°sustainable development¡±. Thee management tasks in relation to the fulfilment of the COP21 goals are mindboggling.

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  • Jan Erik Lane, 2016. "Are The Cop21 Objectives Implementable?," Business and Management Horizons, Macrothink Institute, vol. 4(1), pages 86-122, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:bmh888:v:4:y:2016:i:1:p:86-122
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