eprintid: 1399219 rev_number: 30 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/39/92/19 datestamp: 2013-07-11 15:26:56 lastmod: 2021-03-25 21:41:12 status_changed: 2013-07-11 15:26:56 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Cohen, T title: Can participatory emissions budgeting help local authorities to tackle climate change? ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F44 note: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. abstract: A lack of concerted action on the part of local authorities and their citizens to respond to climate change is argued to arise partly from a poor relationship between the two. Meanwhile, local authorities could have a significant impact on community-wide levels of greenhouse gas emissions because of their influence over many other actors, but have had limited success with orthodox voluntary behaviour change methods and hold back from stricter behaviour change interventions. Citizen participation may offer an effective means of improving understanding between citizens and government concerning climate change and, because it is inherently a dialogue, avoids many of the pitfalls of more orthodox attempts to effect behaviour change. Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation which seems well suited to the task in being quantitative, drawing a diverse audience and, when successfully run, engendering confidence amongst authority stakeholders. A variant of it, participatory emissions budgeting, would introduce the issue of climate change in a way that required citizens to trade off greenhouse gas emissions with wider policy goals. It may help citizens to appreciate the nature of the challenge and the role of local government in responding; this may in turn provide authority stakeholders with increased confidence in the scope to implement pro-environmental agendas without meeting significant resistance. date: 2012-04 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.016 vfaculties: VENG oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: crossref elements_id: 884238 doi: 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.016 lyricists_name: Cohen, Thomas lyricists_id: TCOHE20 full_text_status: public publication: Environmental Development volume: 2 pagerange: 18 - 35 issn: 2211-4645 citation: Cohen, T; (2012) Can participatory emissions budgeting help local authorities to tackle climate change? Environmental Development , 2 18 - 35. 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.016 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.016>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1399219/2/1399219.pdf