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The first step to meeting the Paris Agreement? An analysis of Ireland’s fossil fuel divestment

Hård, Ronja Mikaela LU (2019) STVK02 20191
Department of Political Science
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This paper analyzes the policy process that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to divest its public funds from fossil fuels. Against a background of being a climate laggard, the Irish case presents an interesting outcome of introducing a novel measure to address climate change. By drawing on an extended version of the Multiple Streams framework encompassing both the stages of agenda-setting and decision-making the study traces the process to gain insights into the case. The results show that multiple factors contributed to making fossil fuel divestment emerge and become legislation in Ireland. Key to enabling the outcome has been the presence of a policy entrepreneur who helped to couple separate streams together... (More)
This paper analyzes the policy process that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to divest its public funds from fossil fuels. Against a background of being a climate laggard, the Irish case presents an interesting outcome of introducing a novel measure to address climate change. By drawing on an extended version of the Multiple Streams framework encompassing both the stages of agenda-setting and decision-making the study traces the process to gain insights into the case. The results show that multiple factors contributed to making fossil fuel divestment emerge and become legislation in Ireland. Key to enabling the outcome has been the presence of a policy entrepreneur who helped to couple separate streams together and a policy window in terms of change in the political realm which enabled focus on the issue of fossil fuel divestment. Furthermore, a political entrepreneur was found to advance the issue from within the political system. (Less)
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This paper analyzes the policy process that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to divest its public funds from fossil fuels. Against a background of being a climate laggard, the Irish case presents an interesting outcome of introducing a novel measure to address climate change. By drawing on an extended version of the Multiple Streams framework encompassing both the stages of agenda-setting and decision-making the study traces the process to gain insights into the case. The results show that multiple factors contributed to making fossil fuel divestment emerge and become legislation in Ireland. Key to enabling the outcome has been the presence of a policy entrepreneur who helped to couple separate streams together... (More)
This paper analyzes the policy process that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to divest its public funds from fossil fuels. Against a background of being a climate laggard, the Irish case presents an interesting outcome of introducing a novel measure to address climate change. By drawing on an extended version of the Multiple Streams framework encompassing both the stages of agenda-setting and decision-making the study traces the process to gain insights into the case. The results show that multiple factors contributed to making fossil fuel divestment emerge and become legislation in Ireland. Key to enabling the outcome has been the presence of a policy entrepreneur who helped to couple separate streams together and a policy window in terms of change in the political realm which enabled focus on the issue of fossil fuel divestment. Furthermore, a political entrepreneur was found to advance the issue from within the political system. (Less)
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Hård, Ronja Mikaela LU
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STVK02 20191
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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English
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8992166
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2019-09-06 09:43:49
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  abstract     = {{This paper analyzes the policy process that resulted in Ireland becoming the first country in the world to divest its public funds from fossil fuels. Against a background of being a climate laggard, the Irish case presents an interesting outcome of introducing a novel measure to address climate change. By drawing on an extended version of the Multiple Streams framework encompassing both the stages of agenda-setting and decision-making the study traces the process to gain insights into the case. The results show that multiple factors contributed to making fossil fuel divestment emerge and become legislation in Ireland. Key to enabling the outcome has been the presence of a policy entrepreneur who helped to couple separate streams together and a policy window in terms of change in the political realm which enabled focus on the issue of fossil fuel divestment. Furthermore, a political entrepreneur was found to advance the issue from within the political system.}},
  author       = {{Hård, Ronja Mikaela}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The first step to meeting the Paris Agreement? An analysis of Ireland’s fossil fuel divestment}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}