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This chapter illustrates two contrasting national policy approaches to deal with the role of science and higher education in climate change (CC) mitigation in Europe by the end of the year 2023. Using two distinct national case studies CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) and the REF (Research Excellence Framework) as illustrations we have located different drivers, origins, and backgrounds of higher education (HE) policy and steering, and different modes of the ‘social pact’ between HE and society in relation to CC. Whereas in the Dutch case higher education institutions are expected, and largely subscribe, to a more central role in CC mitigation, in the UK this occurs in a more indirect and less substantive manner by resorting to intermediary bodies and a marginal level of institutional commitment. The chapter highlights some implications for both policy and future research.

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Climate Change Policy for Higher Education? Investigating the Cases of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

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    2025年

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  • Jouni Kekäle,
  • Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti,
  • Rómulo Pinheiro

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This chapter illustrates two contrasting national policy approaches to deal with the role of science and higher education in climate change (CC) mitigation in Europe by the end of the year 2023. Using two distinct national case studies CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) and the REF (Research Excellence Framework) as illustrations we have located different drivers, origins, and backgrounds of higher education (HE) policy and steering, and different modes of the ‘social pact’ between HE and society in relation to CC. Whereas in the Dutch case higher education institutions are expected, and largely subscribe, to a more central role in CC mitigation, in the UK this occurs in a more indirect and less substantive manner by resorting to intermediary bodies and a marginal level of institutional commitment. The chapter highlights some implications for both policy and future research.