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Table 3 Sustainable Earth Paper

From: The practice of climate change policy evaluations in the European Union and its member states: results from a meta-analysis

 

EU total

GER

AUT

UK

GRE

FRA

CZ

General Statistics

 Total No. of reports

70

59

8

64

20

10

5

Origin

 Year of publication

  2010

4

3

0

1

1

0

0

  2011

4

7

0

8

0

0

0

  2012

10

15

0

11

1

0

1

  2013

8

4

1

9

4

4

1

  2014

14

17

4

9

7

1

1

  2015

21

12

1

17

4

2

1

  2016

9

1

2

9

3

3

1

Affiliation of authors

  Government body

47

14

3

14

5

2

2

  Official, but independent advisory/scrutiny body

0

7

0

11

0

3

1

  Parliamentary Committee

1

0

0

8

0

0

0

  Commercial Consultancy

17

2

2

13

0

4

1

  University/research institute

31

37

4

24

15

0

1

  NGO

0

3

1

1

0

1

0

  International organisation

0

0

2

1

0

1

1

  Industry group/trade association

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

  Other

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

 Commissioned by

  Government body

66

26

5

29

7

7

4

  Official, but independent scrutiny/advisory body

3

6

0

1

0

1

0

  Parliamentary Committee

0

0

0

11

0

0

0

  vInternational organisation

1

0

2

0

6

2

1

  Industry groups/trade association

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

  NGO

0

2

0

0

0

1

0

  Other

1

26

1

22

0

0

0

Sectors

 Sectors

  Cross-sectoral

30

8

5

10

0

5

3

  Energy

29

53

6

49

20

9

5

  Industry/Industrial Processes

20

14

6

0

1

6

4

  Transport

16

12

6

5

2

6

1

  Agriculture

1

2

5

0

1

5

1

  LULUCF/Forestry

0

0

5

0

0

4

0

  Waste

1

0

4

0

1

5

1

Methods

 Type of Evaluation

  Reflexive

0

0

2

11

10

6

3

  Non-reflexive

70

59

6

53

10

4

2

Evaluation method

 Cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, extended cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria analysis, (financial) feasibility analysis, risk analysis

7

11

1

17

5

0

3

 Modelling, regression analysis, time series analysis

41

35

0

3

7

2

0

 Public opinion polls, user surveys, stakeholder analysis, (political feasibility assessment, expert interviews

17

17

0

33

9

7

2

 Social experimentation

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

 Documentary analysis

55

9

7

50

19

9

4

 Not specified/unclear

2

4

0

0

0

0

0

Evaluation criteria

 Effectiveness and goal attainment

68

38

8

51

14

10

5

 Efficiency

20

7

0

20

3

0

0

 Cost-effectiveness

35

13

0

16

8

0

2

 Legality/legal acceptability

30

0

2

6

8

0

2

 Co-ordination with other policies

10

7

5

14

3

0

1

 Legitimacy

1

1

2

10

8

0

1

 Fairness

1

9

0

17

6

0

0

 Other

9

14

0

9

1

0

0

Political Recommendations made?

 Yes

5

34

5

36

14

7

3

 No

65

25

3

28

6

3

2