ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter has been the challenge of incorporating climate change policies in local public administration. Such context is the point of departure in the official reports that summarised the results of the Communities for Climate Protection (CCP) programmes, which stressed the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the financial savings that occurred on a national scale as a result of the programmes. While the contribution of the CCP programmes towards these aims is significant and admirable, less attention is paid to the many other tangible and less tangible results. The chapter has discussed that how a specific programme for climate change mitigation, the CCP programme, was imported from the US to Australia and New Zealand through a process of translation and diffusion. it also examines the changes in local administrations in terms of changes in three basic dimensions such as punctuated equilibrium, punctuated evolution or critical junctures.
