Citizens' Climate Change Advisory Council
The Citizens' Advisory Council on Climate Change, also known as 5C, was created by Executive Decree No. 40616 of the Costa Rican Ministry of the Environment and Energy, thus fulfilling one of the commitments undertaken by the country in the Paris Agreement at the Conference of the Parties (COP21). The Council is made up of representatives of social, sectoral and productive organizations that are interested in the environment and climate change have more than three years of trajectory in the country. The purpose of the Council is to become a deliberative space that advises the Ministry of Environment and Energy on issues related to climate change. The Ministry, as well as other government entities, may submit to the Council consultations on the design, implementation and evaluation of their climate policies, programs and metrics. The Council also monitors the implementation of the National Level Predicted and Determined Contribution presented by Costa Rica to the Conference of the Parties 21 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDA) related to climate change and its effects.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
Means
|
Ends
|
