ABSTRACT
Analysis II asks which mechanisms link procedural democratic quality and climate performance. The empirical case which is investigated is Canada's Kyoto Protocol process between 1995 and 2012. This chapter seeks to take a more precise look at how climate policy-making developed, who its most relevant actors were and what explanatory models currently exist. It aims to familiarize ourselves the wide array of circumstances that may affect climate performance in order to focus entirely on mechanisms regarding the influence of democratic quality on climate performance in the case study, and to identify the first indications of a democracy-climate nexus in Canada. Distinguishing between internal and external contexts for the purposes of analysis, two aspects seem to be of special importance in understanding Canada and Canada's way of climate policy-making as well as its greenhouse gas (GHG) development: Canada's geography and its economy which is very much the result of its geographic circumstances and political culture.
