CET Lunch: The Anchoring Policy Perspective: explaining policy hierarchies for energy transitions

Our speaker will attend in person. Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note this lunch is on Friday the 28th of March. 

In light of current global challenges there is a clear urgency for transition governance. Academic analyses of public policy change management have shown some clear limitations. Absent from these approaches is investigation of policy hierarchies as distinct influences on policy design and adoption. the Anchoring Policies Perspective (APP) is a theoretical perspective for analysing policy hierarchy relationships, where durable policies functionally higher in a policy hierarchy put strong influence on other policies lower in the policy hierarchy. In this seminar presentation, I will present the APP and how it can contribute to build knowledge on the scope for likely and possible transitions. To illustrate I will use two key examples with the Norwegian Energy Act (1991), and the Enova Mandate (2001-). These two policies, operating at different levels, both represent strong functional influence on other policies in their respective areas, with implications for scope for policy design and change, illuminated by the anchoring policies perspective.

About the speaker

Tor Håkon Jackon Inderberg is a political scientist working with public policy, energy transitions, and climate policy. As part of the energy and climate research group at the fridtjof Nansen Institute, Inderberg is doing research on themes that include national energy transitions, solar siting, prosuming, wind power licensing, grid tariffing, emission trading schemes, Climate Change Acts, and other areas. National contexts for these topics include the Nordics, EU, the UK, New Zealand.