ABSTRACT
This chapter asks what mechanisms linked procedural democratic quality and climate performance. The mechanisms explored in the Canadian case indicate that decreasing levels of procedural democratic quality negatively influence climate performance, which in turn implies that more democratic quality positively influences climate performance. Thus, the findings of analysis II verify the trends detected by analysis I. The mechanisms which have been identified as linking procedural democratic quality and climate performance even indicate that with increasing levels of democratic quality the positive influence becomes more predictable and stronger. Based on the findings of the Canadian case and their interpretation in the context of the democracy-climate nexus, the outline for the concept of democratic efficacy can be advanced. Regarding the design of policy formulation and implementation, the transparency, inclusiveness, participation and publicity dimensions and their interrelations seem to be the most important, structuring the centre of the process how democratic quality influences climate performance and including actors and the public.
