| dc.description.abstract | The potential impact of knowledge sharing and policy transfer in achieving desired outcomes in the global effort to combat climate change is the central theme of the thesis. As such, it explores the knowledge transfer process between the City of Oslo and the City of Mumbai through the C40 Climate Budget Pilot. Knowledge sharing is a prevalent practice employed by organizations with common goals, to facilitate innovation and the exchange of effective solutions and strategies. However, studies often reveal that policies or practices that thrived in one context may not function similarly when transferred elsewhere, and at times, may produce undesired outcomes in new settings. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a network that seeks to learn from each other in their efforts to confront climate change, operates on the notion that policies or practices may facilitate similar results when transferred between cities. C40 initiated the Climate Budget Pilot to carry out a knowledge transfer process in an attempt to scale up and implement climate budgets in other member cities. Climate budgeting is found to help Oslo achieve its emission reduction targets, which connects the city’s financial budget with climate actions and assigns accountability to responsible departments. The thesis focuses on the C40 Pilot program, and the transfer process between Oslo and Mumbai in particular. Mumbai and Oslo hold largely different contexts, which studies suggest may pose challenges for the smoothness and effectiveness of such transfer processes. The overall research question is as follows: To what extent has the knowledge transfer from the City of Oslo through the C40 Climate Budget Pilot facilitated a probable implementation of an operational climate budget in the City of Mumbai? To address this research question, we have conducted a qualitative case study where we collected data from interviews with individuals from the involved organizations. Theories suggest that knowledge transfers are motivated by organizations’ pursuit of legitimacy, and how formal structures might end up decoupled from what is actually done. Additionally, there is an increased emphasis on how policies and knowledge transform during their journey between different contexts. The thesis contends that the Pilot has largely accounted for the contextual differences between the cities, established shared understandings and cultivated a sense of common ground. However, the Pilot’s efforts have not been sufficient to facilitate an effective knowledge transfer for implementing an operational climate budget in Mumbai for the time being. Our results suggest that the Pilot has faced challenges in engaging key stakeholders, particularly evident in light of the political shift within the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. | eng |