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Dear Critters, I am looking for one more paper to complete a special session I have organised on entrepreneurial cities and regions for climate policy and governance at the RSA annual conference in Graz, Austria this coming April (see session details below). If anyone is interested in submitting a related paper please (please!) email an abstract of no more than 250 words to me for consideration by Friday 5th February ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). For conference registration details please see: http://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/building-bridges-cities-and-regions-in-a-transnational-world I know it is close in time to the AAG, but it’s a great welcoming conference for those of you doing work related to cities, regions and place. Thanks in advance. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------- Entrepreneurial Cities and Regions for Climate Policy and Governance? Session organiser(s) Dr Andrew Kythreotis, School of Geography & Planning, Cardiff University What makes an entrepreneurial city and/or region for climate policy and governance? This is the main focus of this special session. The formulation of climate policy has largely coalesced and been led at the international scale through collective agreements like the non-legally binding UNFCCC and the legally binding Kyoto Protocol. Member country states then use such agreements to implement their own national climate policies. For example, with the intention of a new collective international climate agreement at COP 21 in Paris in December 2015, many member states are now deciding or have decided on what their own Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) should be with respect to greenhouse gas emission levels. Many member states have already submitted their INDCs including all countries in the EU, the US, Australia and Russia, each showing varied levels of national commitments to lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The example of INDCs arguably illustrate how the international and national policy scales maintain the greatest influence in formal policy responses to climate change. But how do these higher policy scales engage with sub-national (e.g. cities and regions) actors to achieve their intended responses at higher policy scales? Do sub-national scale governance actors actively engage with higher policy scales insomuch we can talk of entrepreneurial cities and/or regions for climate policy and governance? This session will draw together work around the theme of entrepreneurial cities and/or regions for climate policy and governance. We therefore seek papers that broadly: 1. Examine the varied conditions conducive to and constraining of an entrepreneurial city and/or region. What makes particular cities and/or regions special, if special at all, in leading on climate policy and governance? 2. Highlight how particular cities and/or regional successes or failures in climate policy and governance is resultant of national responses to international climate governance. 3. Examine how cities and/or regions have prioritised particular strategies related to climate change that give them an entrepreneurial gravitas e.g. climate mitigation through Smart Cities or climate adaptation through global initiatives like the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities initiative. 4. Examine more generally whether entrepreneurial cities and/or regions for climate policy and governance arise out of a politics of scale or a scale of politics. ……………………………………… Dr Andrew P. Kythreotis Lecturer/Cardiff Fellow Postgraduate Research Admissions Tutor Room 2.51 Cardiff School of Geography and Planning Cardiff University Glamorgan Building King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3WA Wales, UK Tel: +44(0)29 208 76063 Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74845 [log in to unmask] http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan Twitter: @SBPCardiff Associate Editor, Regional Studies, Regional Science. See: www.tandfonline.com/rsrs<http://www.tandfonline.com/rsrs> Yr Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio Prifysgol Caerdydd Adeilad Morgannwg Rhodfa Brenin Edward VII Caerdydd CF10 3WA Cymru, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol Ffon +44(0)29 208 76063 Recent publication Kythreotis, AP (2015) Carbon Pledges: Alliance and Ambitions. Nature Climate Change, 5 (9): 806-807. Mantyka-Pringle, CS, Westman, CN, Kythreotis, AP & Schindler, DW (2015) Honouring indigenous treaty rights for climate justice. Nature Climate Change, 5 (9): 798-801. [cid:image002.png@01CFF9AF.84437480]