Mainstreaming climate policy and policy coherence: A background report for the compiling of the foresight report of Vanhanen’s second government

AIMED AT: Policy makers PURPOSE: To review the main challenges to mainstreaming climate policy and policy coherence and to evince new ways of strengthening Finland’s climate policy GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Finland TECHNICAL AREA: Mainstreaming, climate change adaptation BASIC STRUCTURE: The report describes issues related to the mainstreaming of climate policy from the perspectives of both horizontal and vertical integration and brings together examples of the measures of other countries. In light of these, the report makes recommendations as to how mainstreaming and policy coherence can be enhanced. Initially mainstreaming and policy coherence can be enhanced by further developing the existing administrative processes and structures and creating new measures focusing specifically on the mainstreaming of climate change. Here we present the main recommendations of our report.

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