Phase III

Chapter 6 explores different types of emissions and non-emissions (socio-economic) outcomes of mitigation policies and their relationship to reformulations of the politics of mitigation from 2008 to 2018. Here, social interaction is particularly important, as it is at this stage that social responses to policies can be better identified and accounted for in policymaking debates. Conceptually, this chapter leans quite heavily on public policy scholarship on how policy decisions, once made, can shape the politics of further rounds of policymaking – but with a greater degree of emphasis on the place of policy outcomes in these processes. Mitigation policy outcomes have had greater levels of impact on other policy goals, have been increasingly varied, and are contingent upon policy design. In this phase, then, mitigation policy became politicised in a number of ways – but with some emphasis on new constituents and on higher degrees of social interaction.