Election and policy inaction
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02433-8
Election and policy inaction
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Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02055-6
Inadequate information in national adaptation policies limits the ability to track national adaptation progress in Africa. Enhancing coverage, consistency and robustness of these policies offers a clear path to establish effective, nationally led adaptation-tracking infrastructure.
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Explaining green industrial policy in an age of globalization
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02072-5
Governments are increasingly using industrial policy to develop low-carbon economic sectors and catalyse the energy transition. A recent study provides a framework to explain why governments adopt different types of green industrial policy, depending on industry position in the global supply chain and types of uncertainty.
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Taking stock of the implementation gap in climate policy
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 July 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01755-9
A gap persists between the emissions reductions pledged by countries under the Paris Agreement and those resulting from their domestic policies. We argue that this gap in fact contains two parts: one in the policies that countries adopt, and the other in the outcomes that those policies achieve.
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Research on public support for climate policy instruments must broaden its scope
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 January 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01593-1
The transition to net-zero emissions will be contested and could lead to political polarization and social unrest. To contribute to a transition that is accepted as legitimate while remaining effective, research on public support must evolve rapidly along several dimensions.
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Attention All Farmers: Be Represented in US Farm Policy by Participating in the 2022 Census of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is gearing up to send its survey for the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Whether or not you have participated in the past, filling out the survey is an important way for every farmer in America to influence the policies and programs that impact US agriculture every day.
The Census of Agriculture is conducted every five years to collect critical data on the status of agriculture across the United States. These data address a variety of topics, including the number and size of farms across the county, the prevalence of organic agriculture, the use of conservation and other federal programs, the number of beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers, and the average age of American farmers, all of which help to inform federal food and agriculture programs …