Senior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma has written a scientific article about the global climate governance landscape. The article was published in MIT Press Global Environmental Politics -journal on March 26th (Volume 15, Issue 2) and the other writers are Michele Betsill, Navroz K. Dubash, Matthew Paterson, Harro van Asselt and Harald Winkler.
“Global climate governance has undergone a significant transformation in the past decade. Previously it might reasonably have been characterized as a system governed by the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol, with a secondary role for national policy regimes. Since then, a large array of governance initiatives acting across international borders have joined the UNFCCC regime, including those created by subgroups of governments, private sector actors of various types (specific industrial sectors, institutional invetors, etc.), non-governmental organizations, and subnational actors like cities and regions. These initiatives are variously understood through ideas such as transnational, private, or non-state governance.”