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What drives countries to realize more integrated policymaking? The co-benefits concept highlights the win–win situations that can arise if one policy measure addresses two or more policy goals, e.g., air quality and health benefits resulting from a climate policy. Scholars have suggested that decision makers, if confronted with the evidence of co-b...
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... approach to the integration of Considerations, emphasising non-binding measures, which can help build the potential for dialogue and consensus-building (Victor, 1998;Mewes and Unger, 2021). ...
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... Many authors highlight the many co-benefits of an integrated approach on the CC mitigation front (Dimanchev et al., 2019;Johnson et al., 2020;Li and Wang, 2021) even if an ever-increasing body of literature is addressing adaptation co-benefits (Hennessey et al., 2017;Sharifi, 2021). Regarding the spatial scale, there are examples where the co-benefits approach has provided a strong motivation to design an integrated air-climate strategy on a national scale, for instance in Mexico and Nigeria (Mewes and Unger, 2021). However, it is widely agreed that the role of co-benefits is crucial at the local scale where synergies and trade-off between AQ and climate actions are better managed and controlled (Peng et al., 2017;Puppim De Oliveira et al., 2013;Roussel, 2019). ...
Climate change mitigation and adaptation along with air pollution are key challenges that require a comprehensive planning approach able to promote win-win strategies and avoid transferring environmental pressures from one sector to another. The joint approach is widely advocated at the policy level while the scientific research investigates the role of co-benefits in planning processes. A methodological framework was developed with the twofold aim of (i) assessing the current integration degree between regional Air Quality Plans and Climate Plans and (ii) providing useful hints for pursuing greater air-climate integration. Its application to the Italian case study provides useful policy implications for strengthening the role of co-benefits as drivers of planning processes. Results show that a greater air-climate integration can be achieved by enhancing the role of regional authorities in supporting the implementation of local-scale plans and actions. This is especially important in contexts where an integrated planning framework is lacking and the mainstreaming within sectoral sub-regional plans turns out to be crucial.
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