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Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal by Christian Hauenstein; Isabell Braunger; Alexandra Krumm; Pao-Yu Oei is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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The future of coal remains contested in many countries, hindering necessary energy transitions. Collaborative governance approaches, such as stakeholder commissions, have been proposed as potential solution to resolve such societal conflicts. In Germany, a stakeholder commission process managed to overcome the existing stalemate situation, leading to the adoption of a coal phase-out by 2038. Celebrated for enabling the German coal phase-out, the commission's outcomes are ambiguous, recommending a coal phase-out incompatible with the 1.5 • C climate target and granting high financial compensations to coal regions. Based on 18 semi-structured interviews with members of this "Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment", we analyze how the stalemate situation in the German conflict over the future of coal was overcome and how the commission's outcome was formed. We find that the absence of alternative ways to enforce their interests, and external political, economic, and societal pressure were crucial factors that motivated interest groups to engage in the commission. The commission facilitated trust-building among members, and compromise offers behind closed doors among ke

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Author

Christian Hauenstein; Isabell Braunger; Alexandra Krumm; Pao-Yu Oei

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)