Some personal news: last week I became a German citizen! A typically understated, bureaucratic ceremony, but it still meant a lot to me. I’m looking forward to voting in my first German election, and shouting at people when they cycle on the Bürgersteig ;)

Great to be at Princeton on Friday for the Climate Pipeline Project workshop, presenting my paper on prospective voting on climate policy

The world may feel like a dark place right now, but at least the sun is shining on my short visit at the Sydney Environment Institute. Thank you very much @seisydney.bsky.social for having me!

We also demonstrate how policymakers can use the CIAF to create or reform climate institutions in their own countries, learning from comparative analysis. This matters because CIs are easier to reform than macro-political institutions (e.g. electoral rules) (5/5)

We apply the CIAF to analyse CIs in DEU, GBR, SWE, and AUS. We find CIs in these countries tend to address knowledge and attention-related strategic challenges, while failing to deliver compensation for affected groups or ex-ante accountability (4/5)

We propose 2 novel theoretical tools: (i) an encompassing + replicable definition of CIs and (ii) a framework to analyse their effects. The CIAF sees CIs as addressing a series of 'strategic challenges' in climate policy and engendering effects via 'stylised causal chains' (3/5)

CIs - including framework climate legislation, climate advisory bodies, and climate ministries - have proliferated globally. Yet, compared with policy instruments, we know relatively little about them and the role they play in effective climate change mitigation (2/5)

We are excited to share our working paper: Introducing and applying the Climate Institutions Analysis Framework (CIAF): A comparative analysis of climate institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia using the CIAF tinyurl.com/2enbnt29 (1/5)

(6/7) Our comparative analysis of effects of climate institutions across countries shows they mainly address attention-related (e.g. agenda-setting) and epistemic (knowledge-related) strategic challenges

(5/7) We discovered a rich landscape of climate institutions across Germany, the UK, Sweden, and Australia. The figure below summarises variation in their functions. Variation is greatest among climate laws and climate advisory bodies

(2/7) ‘Climate institutions’ – like climate laws, climate advisory bodies, climate ministries, and coordination mechanisms for climate policy (e.g. climate cabinets) have proliferated globally. Yet we know little about them.