Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/329643 
Year of Publication: 
2025
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[Journal:] npj Climate Action [ISSN:] 2731-9814 [Volume:] 4 [Article No.:] 62 [Publisher:] Springer Nature [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 1-9
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Springer Nature, Berlin
Abstract: 
Although research has begun to examine local mitigation and adaptation approaches in parallel, it has tended to focus on leading cities and adopt large-N approaches that focus on published climate plans. We know little about whether smaller local governments are able to address these twin challenges simultaneously, or whether and howthey are implementing their planned policies. Drawing on analysis of 194 German cities, supplemented by fieldwork interviews in ten of these municipalities, we find that smaller cities are focusing increasingly on both mitigation and adaptation at the institutional level. However, concerns remain about implementation and the long-term development of infrastructure projects.Moreover, there is a risk that our knowledge of local climate policy, much ofwhich is based on climate planning documents, may be distorted because municipalities are incentivised to produce highly ambitious and unrealistic plans, and often rely heavily on external experts to draft these documents
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