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  • 12 - Stability and Politicization in Framework Climate Laws

  • from Part III - Comparative Politics
  • Edited by Paul Tobin, University of Manchester, Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester, Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Book:
    Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
    Published online:
    07 August 2025
    Print publication:
    21 August 2025, pp 176-188
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    FFramework climate laws have been enacted across a growing range of countries, and are often assumed to provide stability in terms of climate policymaking. This chapter provides a more nuanced assessment. I argue that, while some common design elements of framework climate laws do indeed serve to bring stability to climate policymaking, in many respects framework climate laws depart from the ideal design type envisioned by the literature on time inconsistency, commitment devices, and non-majoritarian institutions. Moreover, framework climate laws can actually serve to make explicit political conflicts and sectoral trade-offs, and can thus serve to politicize even as they depoliticize. Furthermore, by seeking to introduce stability to climate policymaking in the sense of stability in policy design over time, framework climate laws simultaneously and deliberately seek to undermine and challenge stability as status quo. The chapter draws on examples of framework climate laws principally in European countries to illustrate the argument.