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Although best tackled ‘locally’, climate change actions cannot succeed without ‘national’ and ‘global’ platforms (even if only as principles). We investigate the roles of ‘national’ and ‘sub-national’ governance in mitigation and adaptation policy responses in Bangladesh and Mexico: two mitigation sectors, transportation (for Bangladesh and Mexico), and urban solid waste (in Mexico), and the adaption domain (Bangladesh and Mexico). Our preliminary findings include more robust climate policy-making at the ‘state’ level, which weakens at the ‘municipal’ level; and analyses of policy responses showing adaptation policies/actions outscoring mitigation in numbers and consistency. Although clear links prevail between ‘national’ programs/subsidies and their ‘sub-national’ counterparts for both adaptation and mitigation, supporting capacities at the ‘sub-national’ (or ‘local’) level is essential for the country to fulfill its ‘international’/multilateral negotiated outcomes.
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Soto-Montes-de-Oca, G., Kabir, S. (2023). Controlling Climate, Facilitating Modernization: Comparing Bangladesh and Mexico. In: Hussain, I.A. (eds) Multifaceted Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1798-3_8
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