Governance for Climate Change Technologies
This is a cross-disciplinary project exploring the space for public participation during the consenting process for wind energy and carbon capture-and-storage projects.
10 May 2015
While decision-makers are subject to legal obligations to provide opportunities for public involvement in consenting, an examination of high-level strategic planning policy suggests that in practice, very little will be up for discussion by this stage.
We also identified a certain mistrust of public participation among those making policy on the technological change thought necessary for climate change mitigation. Legally embedded rights to participate, coupled with limited opportunities to influence, create the danger that participation becomes a simple bureaucratic hurdle, frustrating for all concerned.
This project was chaired by Prof Maria Lee (UCL Laws) and jointly supported by UCL Public Policy, UCL Laws and the UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities.