Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action
| Author | Marianne Beisheim,Pieter Pauw,Harro Asselt,Kenneth W. Abbott,Brendan Guy,Angel Hsu,Philipp Pattberg,Sander Chan,Niklas Höhne,Matthew Hoffmann,Thomas Hale,Oscar Widerberg,Céline Ramstein |
| Date | 01 November 2015 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12294 |
| Published date | 01 November 2015 |
Reinvigorating International Climate Policy:
A Comprehensive Framework for Effective
Nonstate Action
Sander Chan, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut f€
ur
Entwicklungspolitik
Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute
Thomas Hale, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Kenneth W. Abbott, Arizona State University
Marianne Beisheim, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Matthew Hoffmann, University of Toronto
Brendan Guy, Natural Resources Defense Council
Niklas H€
ohne, NewClimate Institute
Angel Hsu, Yale University
Philipp Pattberg, VU University Amsterdam
Pieter Pauw, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut f€
ur
Entwicklungspolitik
C
eline Ramstein, Institute for Sustainable Development and International
Relations
Oscar Widerberg, VU University Amsterdam
Abstract
As countries negotiate a new climate agreement for the United Nations climate conference in December 2015, a
groundswell of climate actions is emerging as cities, regions, businesses and civil society groups act on mitigation and
adaptation, independently, with each other and with national governments and international organizations. The Paris
conference provides a historic opportunity to establish a framework to catalyse, support, and steer these initiatives.
Without such a framework, ‘bottom-up’climate governance runs the risk of failing to deliver meaningful results. Social
science research highlights the need for a comprehensive approach that promotes ambition, experimentation and
accountability, and avoids unnecessary overlaps. This article specifies functions and design principles for a new, com-
prehensive framework for sub- and nonstate climate actions that could provide effective coordination.
A groundswell of climate action
Over 20 years of multilateral negotiations have yet to
produce an international agreement sufficient to prevent
dangerous climate change. National pledges collectively
still fall short of the accepted international goal to pre-
vent a global average temperature rise above 2°C com-
pared to pre-industrial levels (UNEP, 2014). Yet there has
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