Aim and motivation Sample Clauses

Aim and motivation. Throughout this report the focus is set on the factors that broadly hinder the deployment of energy and climate mitigation policies and technologies, and on suggestions for policy makers on how these can be overcome. This report’s work is based on results of the CARISMA D6.3 (Fujiwara, Williges and Xxxxx 2017), which explored the effects of contextual factors on implementing climate change mitigation options with the help of a set of case studies. More specifically, the research questions for D6.3 were the following: (i) how can contextual factors affect the outcome of policy instruments, and (ii) how are they considered during policy-making processes. For the first question, stakeholders provided some useful insights on key contextual factors which were considered important for further investigation. As regards the second question, stakeholders engaged in the interviews reported difficulties in providing evidence on how such factors were considered during policy making processes. A potential explanation for these difficulties could lie within the broader scope and frame of the case study analysis which was broadly focused on mitigation options (i.e. policies or technologies) during policy decision making. Hence engaged stakeholders (i.e. market actors, policy makers, independent researchers) have not directly been involved in the policy design of relevant support measures. Instead, considering the broader scope of the case study analysis, engagement with a broader spectrum of stakeholders was necessary. The difficulty in adequately answering the above questions, led to the need to provide more concrete suggestions and guidelines for national and EU policy makers on how to account for contextual factors. Thus our main research question was formed as “how the policy mix can be re-adjusted to account for contextual influences”. To make the scope more operational, accounting also for the aforementioned inherent limitations, the main research question was narrowed down to the following complementary inquiries:  What are the most inhibiting contextual factors reported for selected case-studies?  How did their influence manifest?  How has the country under assessment dealt with identified influences thus far (policy actions, practices considered)?  Can examples of different countries which addressed similar influences be of aid?