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To address this, the author introduces a framework centered on 'ideas, institutions, and interests' to analyze how these factors influence policy coherence across different stages and actors. The paper demonstrates the framework's utility by examining the coherence between the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030, suggesting the model can be applied to empirical data at both national and global levels.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-000221#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Existing conceptualizations of policy coherence for sustainable development are primarily technocratic, focusing on intra-governmental processes and institutional interactions while ignoring political drivers such as ideologies or vested interests.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-000221#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author introduces a political analytical framework based on 'the three I’s'—ideas, institutions, and interests—to determine how these elements influence policy options and the level of ambition assigned to different goals and actors when pursuing or resisting policy coherence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-000221#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The proposed framework is applicable for studying policy coherence between international agendas, such as the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 (including the Sustainable Development Goals), and can be used with empirical data at national or global scales.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-000221#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["sustainable development","Sustainable Development Goals","Paris Agreement","governance"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["theoretical framework"]},{"id":"wacc-000092","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/wacc-000092","title":"WACC | On “shrinking space”: A framing paper","publisher":{"name":"World Association for Christian Communication","organization":"world-association-for-christian-communication"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2022-08-19","source_url":"https://waccglobal.org/on-shrinking-space-a-framing-paper/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that the concept of \"shrinking space\" is often used to depoliticize the targeted repression of radical social movements. It identifies ten trends of repression, including philanthropic protectionism and the criminalization of human rights defenders, and contends that these tools are applied selectively by states to maintain power. The author suggests that the focus should shift from a generic \"civil society\" lens to one of political marginalization and solidarity with those on the margins.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The author identifies ten interrelated trends that constrain the political space for civil society organizations, including \"philanthropic protectionism\" (government constraints on international funding), domestic laws imposing onerous registration and reporting obligations, and the restriction of freedom of assembly and expression through censorship and \"mass surveillance\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The experience of \"shrinking space\" is uneven; while grassroots, community-based, and environmental justice movements face severe crackdowns, highly professionalized NGOs often maintain their platforms and become \"preferred partners for donors\" due to their bureaucratic capacity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The \"shrinking space\" discourse is criticized for depoliticizing state repression and masking the intersectional dynamics of gender, race, and sexual orientation by overemphasizing a narrow set of freedoms from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Repressive tools are applied selectively by states to suit political ends; for example, restrictions on foreign funding are used by populist politicians to bankrupt political opponents while maintaining funds for \"uncontentious actors\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document argues that \"shrinking space\" should be viewed as a tool of political marginalization within neoliberalism, where the state and corporations redefine legitimate political activity to exclude critical and radical actors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author highlights the criminalization of specific movements as evidence of targeted repression, including the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Black Lives Matter, and environmental activists opposing extractivism.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wacc-000092#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["environmental justice","extractive industry","Paris Agreement"],"geography_discussed":["India","Russia","Ethiopia","Egypt","Bangladesh","Israel","France","United States","South Africa","People's Republic of China"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["theoretical framework","policy analysis"]},{"id":"sei-002206","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/sei-002206","title":"The circular economy: towards a new business paradigm with support from public policy","publisher":{"name":"Stockholm Environment Institute","organization":"stockholm-environment-institute"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2022-05","source_url":"https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/circular-economy-stockholm50backgroundpaper-corrected.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that the current linear economy, driven by a culture of consumption and planned obsolescence, is unsustainable. It proposes a circular economy based on a systemic approach to maintain resource flows through regeneration and value retention. The authors emphasize that 100% circularity is physically impossible due to thermodynamics, but an optimum can be reached through a design mindset focused on extended life cycles and 'R' activities like remanufacturing and repair. Key barriers identified include outdated waste legislation, intellectual property laws, and consumer norms favoring ownership over access. 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The authors advocate for 'hybrid solutions' that combine green, blue, and grey infrastructure and outline four leverage realms for action: defining beneficiaries, designing for interoperability, monitoring across scales, and governing for connectivity and justice.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The traditional framing of nature as separate from culture leads to a dichotomy where natural landscapes are reserved for conservation and built environments for human activity, hindering systemic adaptation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Nature-based solutions (NbS) often operate as technocratic discourses that ignore power relations, potentially exacerbating inequities by failing to identify how benefits are distributed among marginalized communities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a significant lack of standardized data on the life cycle costs and quantified benefits of NbS, which prevents cities from adopting them over traditional engineered 'grey' solutions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Current financing for NbS relies heavily on public investment, but there is a need for diversified business models and blended finance to attract private capital, especially where land is privately owned.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The authors propose 'hybrid solutions' (green-blue-grey infrastructure) as a more flexible alternative to purely nature-based ones, as they can be integrated into existing built environments and may be less land-demanding.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Effective multifunctional design requires 'interoperability'—the integration of components into a system of systems—to reduce vulnerabilities and allow for different adaptation pathways over time.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Monitoring of multifunctional interventions is currently insufficient, lacking long-term, landscape-level data to assess whether interventions are effective or who actually benefits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Governance for multifunctionality must move beyond mainstream economic appraisals based on net present value and property values, as these metrics exclude the most marginalized people who do not own property.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002811#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["nature-based solutions","climate change adaptation","green infrastructure","climate finance","Blended Finance","biodiversity conservation","ecosystem service","social equity","climate justice","urban planning"],"geography_discussed":["Netherlands","Kenya","Nairobi","Ethiopia","Argentina","Córdoba","Denmark"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","theoretical framework","literature review"]},{"id":"sei-000477","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/sei-000477","title":"Large-scale collective action: Amazon tipping point, actors, interventions","publisher":{"name":"Stockholm Environment Institute","organization":"stockholm-environment-institute"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2021-05-18","source_url":"https://www.sei.org/publications/large-scale-collective-action-amazon-tipping-point-actors-interventions/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The authors apply a collective action theory framework to Amazon conservation, identifying six variables—information, accountability, harmony of interests, horizontal trust, knowledge about consequences, and sense of responsibility—that act as either stressors or facilitators. 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It defines a Payment Security Mechanism (PSM) as a funded capital reserve providing interest-free working capital during default events. The authors propose a five-step stochastic methodology to determine the optimal PSM size required to achieve specific credit rating enhancements for projects. Applying this to eight sample DISCOMs, the study finds that most require approximately 12 months of payment support to reach a BB rating, typically representing 10%-20% of a project's total capital expenditure. 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At the origin, it can push people to move through slow-onset degradation (e.g., desertification) or sudden hazards; at the destination, it can alter the 'pulling factors' of a location, such as increasing the appeal of mountain regions during metropolitan heat waves.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"bc3res-000177#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author suggests that the concept of 'carrying capacity'—traditionally used in tourism to determine the maximum acceptable number of visitors—could be applied to immigration to assess the sustainability of assimilation processes regarding job markets and public services.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"bc3res-000177#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["environmental change","climate change adaptation","tourism industry","ecosystem service"],"geography_discussed":["Bangladesh","Papua New Guinea","Kenya","Africa","Venice","Barcelona","Berlin","Copenhagen","Estonia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["methodological proposal","literature review","theoretical framework"]},{"id":"cdkn-000163","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cdkn-000163","title":"Can multilevel governance facilitate coastal climate change adaptation in Jamaica?","publisher":{"name":"Climate and Development Knowledge Network","organization":"climate-and-development-knowledge-network"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2017-02-03","source_url":"https://cdkn.org/resource/working-paper-can-multilevel-governance-facilitate-coastal-climate-change-adaptation-jamaica","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"This working paper examines whether multilevel governance can facilitate coastal climate change adaptation in Jamaica, focusing on the role of diverse actors and institutions across different scales, levels of organization, and sectors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cdkn-000163#summary","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Climate change adaptation in the Caribbean has seen a surge in investments and initiatives over the last twenty years, leading to a variety of projects and strategies that necessitate the involvement of multiple agencies, organizations, and actors in policy development and implementation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cdkn-000163#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"Climate change is a multidimensional problem that requires governance responses across multiple geographical and jurisdictional scales, administrative levels of organization, and sectors such as fisheries, agriculture, and tourism.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cdkn-000163#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"In the Caribbean, climate change interacts with other drivers of environmental change, including marine resource exploitation, tourism development, and invasive species, creating complex, cross-scale conflicts and cumulative effects.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cdkn-000163#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"The paper utilizes a case study of coastal-marine governance in Jamaica, specifically focusing on the communities of Whitehouse and Bluefields Bay in the parish of Westmoreland, to identify the conditions that enable or constrain multilevel governance for climate change adaptation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cdkn-000163#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-08-17"}],"climate_tags":["coastal adaptation","multilevel governance","caribbean","coastal-marine environments"],"geography_discussed":["Saint Lucia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["Case study","Theoretical framework"]}]}