Territorializing the climate policy agenda in intermediate cities of the Andean Region

This article explores how the climate policy agenda gets territorialized in four intermediate cities of the Andean Region: Pasto (Colombia), Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador), Iquitos (Peru), and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). We investigate processes of coercion, competition, emulation and learning to argue that fast-paced diffusion of the climate agenda produces a bricolage of instruments as an attempt to comply, repair, adjust, or experiment with the multi-scale policy framework. The study emphasizes the importance of institutional frameworks, planning instruments, climate regulations and contextualized practices that condition climate action locally.