National Council for Climate Change and a Clean Development Mechanism
The National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism was created by Decree No. 601-08 and its purpose is to formulate and implement policies for the reduction of greenhouse gases and adaptation to the effects of climate change, in order to comply with the commitments assumed by the Dominican Republic in the United Nations. The Council is made up of representatives of government agencies and, as invited members, representatives of the private sector and civil society organizations.
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
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