A team of climate risk specialists at a global non-profit research organization prepares a study on climate policy and achieving national climate change mitigation targets. The study focuses on actors, non-state and subnational (NSA) participants, and actions that can be taken to impact climate policy.
How should the team describe effective climate policy and climate change mitigation targets?
Subnational commitments and actors can function as networks or advocacy efforts to combat climate change. Effective climate policy and climate change mitigation often involve collaborative efforts across different levels of governance and among various stakeholders. These subnational and non-state actors can play crucial roles in influencing and implementing climate actions, often acting as networks that advocate for and pressure larger entities to adopt more ambitious climate policies.
B: Some subnational efforts function more as networks and advocacy efforts. C40, a global coalition of cities dedicated to combating climate change, founded by 18 cities in 2005 and now with 97 members, is a transnational example, and helped contribute to international pressure to bring about the Paris Agreement. D: It found that full imple-mentation of NSA commitments would lower emissions by 3.8–5.5% more by 2030 than national pledges in those ten countries would do alone (Kuramochi et al., 2020).
“ Some subnational efforts function more as networks and advocacy efforts. ”
B: Some subnational efforts function more as networks and advocacy efforts.
D is inaccurate, B is accurate