CLIMATE POLICY DESIGN LAB
IES is initiating a “Climate Policy Design Lab” (CPDL) for Asia capable of
generating, accelerating and scaling knowledge that will assist policy
officials in meeting their climate objectives. The mission is nothing short
of helping reverse 30 years of frustrations among governments, the private
sector, and non-state actors over the development of well-intended
sustainability policy and governance interventions at multiple scales and
their suboptimal outcomes.
We will accomplish this mission by expanding decades of global capacity
building efforts in Asia to include the scholarship and practice of policy
design. This requires incorporating path breaking research on policy
durability and effectiveness into forward looking policy design exercises
and analysis.
IES activates its capacity building efforts through CPDL using three key
channels:
- Policy experiments and impact evaluation
IES designs or can help design policy experiments and evaluate its effectiveness and durability by applying quantitative analytical methods.
- Policy dialogues and executive education
IES organizes policy dialogues to support policy design capacity building to assist policymakers in Southeast Asia to develop effective and durable policies accelerating action toward achieving target national climate outcomes. Output from research and dialogues is incorporated into customized training and executive education programs to diffuse knowledge and disseminate best practices through efforts.
- Policy pathway action plans
IES develops or can help develop action plans to design sustainability policy pathways based on research output and learning through stakeholder engagement.