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Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation
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An assessment of policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of leading experts from the European Union and developing countries. Global climate governance is at a crossroads. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was merely a first step, and its core commitments expire in 2012. This book addresses three questions which will be central to any new climate agreement. What is the most effective overall legal and institutional architecture for successful and equitable climate politics? What role should non-state actors play, including multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, public–private partnerships and market mechanisms in general? How can we deal with the growing challenge of adapting our existing institutions to a substantially warmer world? This important resource offers policy practitioners in-depth qualitative and quantitative assessments of the costs and benefits of various policy options, and also offers academics from wide-ranging disciplines insight into innovative interdisciplinary approaches towards international climate negotiations.
... Climate Alliance is a network of towns, cities, municipalities, districts, regions, NGO, and other organizations from European countries (included Romania) strong committed in reducing CO 2 emissions by 10% every 5 years, to strive for energy conservation, energy, efficiency, and use of renewable energy, and to act for climate justice in partnership with indigenous people. Alliance is concerned about EU policies, it advocates the good-governance in climate and energy policies [3]. V. CONCLUSIONS EU integration is followed through its policies. ...
The aim of the paper is to study the European policies in the matter of climate change and water resources management, especially Common Agricultural Policy, Environmental Policy, EU Emission Trading System (ETS), climate and energy policies nexus with international agreements in climate action and world global warming, and the way these European policies are settled and applied in national countries. The paper studies the manner these policies are implemented in European Union countries, funding resources for climate action, with impact on decisionmaking level and good-governance.
... von Politikfeldern jeweils mit sehr unterschiedlichen Governanceformen beteiligt sind, hat sich hier ein voluminöser und immer noch schnell wachsender Untersuchungsraum für vergleichende Analysen ergeben, in dem die Governanceperspektive gefragt ist (Biermann et al. 2010a, Biermann/ Pattberg 2012. ...
... Their broad thematic spread and differentiation, from natural emissions related to agriculture and farming activities to transport-related emissions linked with combustion and transport, generate a set of sub-regimes (Earsom & Delreux, 2021b;Keohane & Victor, 2011;Martinez Romera, 2018;Rajamani, 2020). Thus, combating climate change is developed based on sectoral approaches (Rayner et al., 2021;Sawa, 2010), which adds significantly to the fragmentation of the system and accentuates the difficulties in combatting climate change (Biermann et al., 2010;Doussis, 2020). The fragmented nature of the regime necessitates closer and more robust inter-organizational ties to enhance the governance effectiveness of the regime (Abbott, 2014). ...
Regime complexes entail a variety of institutions with a degree of overlap in terms of thematic issues and participating actors. The EU is such an actor engaging with other governmental and non-governmental entities in the formation and evolution of regime complexes. In this article, we examine the role of the EU in the international transport regime complex, and more specifically in two of its core international organizations, namely ICAO and IMO. Our actor-based approach focuses on how the EU navigates between these two constitutive components of the global transport regime complex, advancing climate change mitigation measures. Our empirical material shows how the EU’s active engagement in ICAO contributed to the organization’s shift vis-à-vis the role of the aviation industry in greenhouse gas emissions. Besides the EU learning process that occurred and led to a more engaging and less conflictual EU approach in IMO, the ICAO achievement increased pressure and created a more conducive environment for the respective recognition of the maritime industry’s share in climate deterioration. In this respect, the EU benefited from the structure of the transport regime complex to pursue its own preferences.
The 2015 reform of state-owned forest regions (SOFRs) in Northeast China required state-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) to transfer their governmental and social roles to local authorities. This transition, however, created fragmented governance within forestry communities due to the absence of cooperative mechanisms between SOFEs and local governments. This study examines the economic effects of this governance fragmentation on SOFEs and explores the underlying mechanisms. The research combines new institutional economics and transaction cost theory to develop hypotheses and employs empirical analysis using fixed-effects models on data from 39 SOFEs, belonging to two forest industry groups from 2015 to 2022, collected through surveys and field investigations. The findings indicate that governance fragmentation has a significant negative impact on the economic performance of SOFEs. The high transaction costs incurred by SOFEs in achieving community co-governance with local governments are identified as a key mediating mechanism. These costs lead to resource dispersion and diminished trust between SOFEs and local governments. The economic impact of this governance fragmentation varies based on the economic conditions of the SOFEs, their operational scales, and the clarity of geographical management boundaries with local governments. To mitigate the adverse effects of governance fragmentation, the study suggests proactive institutional designs to reduce transaction costs. These findings offer new insights into the corporate social responsibilities of Chinese SOFEs and suggest improvements in the governance structures of forestry communities in SOFRs in Northeast China. Additionally, the study expands the application of transaction cost theory in public affairs governance and enhances quantitative research on the economic impact on enterprises.
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In the wake of the ‘climate apocalypse’ global discourse, the environmental agenda of the European Green Deal and the overarching objective for the European Union are to deliver a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. European cities are under pressure to reinvent urban environments and develop resilience to environmental risks. This paper looks at semiotic material appearing in Essen, a city in Germany awarded the European Green Capital title. Grounded in the multimodal social semiotic approach and ecolinguistics, the paper investigates strategically emplaced ‘green’ semiotic material which shape environmental values and privilege. The paper illustrates the political economy of city clean-ups which every so often result in questionable environmental choices and fail to alleviate social inequalities. The analysis ultimately shows how semiotic forms of sustainability are evidently implicated in the creation of urban eco-arenas accentuating the socioeconomic stratification and privileges of valorized places.
Das nachfolgende Kapitel bietet aus einer institutionalistischen Perspektive eine Übersicht über die Strukturelemente globaler Governance und zeigt deren Entwicklung seit Ende des Kalten Krieges. Um Ordnung in die große Vielfalt der Forschungsaktivitäten zu Themen der globalen Governance zu bringen, werden vier Analyseperspektiven, die institutionelle und die systemische sowie die sektorale und die Mehrebenenperspektive eingeführt. Mit einem aus diesen Perspektiven (Dimensionen) gebildeten Klassifikationssystem lassen sich Themen und Schwerpunkte der GG-Forschung ermitteln. Die Klassifikation der Ansätze folgt einer institutionalistischen Logik. Internationale Organisationen, Regime und Netzwerke bilden die basalen Institutionen globaler Governance. Die drei Institutionen werden jeweils definiert. Gouvernementale, transnationale und hybride Formen werden unterschieden. Jeweils werden quantitative Angaben zu deren Wachstum sowie zu den an ihnen beteiligten GG-Akteuren gemacht. Die Daten bestätigen die These, dass nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges eine neue Phase internationaler Beziehungen einsetzte, die mit einer Zunahme von GG-Akteuren (NSA) und neuen Formen globaler Governance verbunden ist. Am Ende des Kapitels wird der global ausgerichtete systemische Analyseansatz vorgestellt, bei dem das GG-System hinsichtlich Entstehung, Stabilität und Wandel untersucht wird. Dabei werden zwei Forschungsrichtungen betrachtet: zum einen die Erdsystemgovernance und zum anderen die Analyse von Weltordnungen, hier speziell die der liberalen internationalen Ordnung.
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