Data set title: “Policymakers' perceptions of climate policy instruments”

Project title: CLICCS – B2, WP3

Project duration: 10.2021-12.2025

Project participants: Prof. Grischa Perino, Prof. Kai-Uwe Schnapp, Dr. Johannes Jarke-Neuert, Dr. Anne Gerstenberg, Sarah Fenske, Ella Karnik Hinks

This research project was set up in order to further a better understanding of the goals, perceptions and preferences about specific climate policy instruments from those who help shape and implement them. For an extensive description of the data please refer to: 10.25592/uhhfdm.16313

Type of data: qualitative semi-structured interviews

Cases: European Union, Germany, France, Poland

Interview partners: policymakers

Timeframe: 2022-2023

Contents uploaded here:

Extensive data documentation document
Anonymized interview transcripts
Questionnaire
Codebook
Maxqda with all completed data analysis

This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2037 'CLICCS - Climate, Climatic Change, and Society' – Project Number: 390683824, a contribution to the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) of Universität Hamburg.

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