1. Leveraging Climate Action in Developing Countries: A six step programme Simon Maxwell Climate and Development Knowledge Network

2. 1.What’s the problem and why is it difficult to solve? 2.How theory helps 3.Applications to CCD: a six step programme

3. http://www.climateactiontracker.org/ What’s the problem and why is it difficult to solve?

4. ‘Climate compatible development means reducing poverty and securing human development in a way which reduces the extent of climate change, and also helps societies to adapt to inevitable change’ Climate Compatible Development

5. “The whole life of policy is a chaos of purposes and accidents” Clay, E. J. and Schaffer, B. B. (eds.) (1986) Room for Manoeuvre, An Explanation of Public Policy in Agriculture and Rural Development. Heinemann: London. How theory helps - 1

6. How theory helps - 2 1.Policy process analysis 2.Political economy analysis

7. Models of Policy Change Linear Model Policy Space / Room for manoeuvre Policy as social experiments Street level bureaucracy Disjointed incrementalism Tipping Point Crisis model Communities of practice / Policy networks Mixed scanning model Policy as argument Interactive model (policy reform as a process) Policy Narratives

8. Four Styles of Policy Entrepreneurship (a) The story-teller (b) The networker (c) The engineer (d) The fixer

9. Source: http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS10.pdfhttp://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS10.pdf

10. Some examples: How did we do that? MDGs Business and Development Leadership Good ideas Finance The capacity to deliver Peer pressure Public opinion Motivating staff Incentives Institutions Self- interest

11. Applications to CCD: a six step programme 1.Find the ‘win-wins’ – e.g. energy efficiency. 2.Look for co-benefits – e.g. reduced pollution, energy security, congestion. 3.Frame as risk management– e.g. threats to exports, climatic disasters. 4.Emphasise opportunities – e.g. renewables. 5.Build and use civil society – e.g. ‘reverse lobbying’. 6.Above all - lead.

12. www.cdkn.org