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The fragmented state of global climate governance poses major
challenges to policymakers and scholars alike. Through an in-depth
examination of regime interactions between the international
climate regime and three other regimes (on clean technology,
biodiversity and international trade), this book provides novel and
timely insights into the various consequences of regime
interactions. It also offers a critical discussion of the potential
for legal techniques and institutional coordination to foster
synergies and mitigate conflicts between regimes in the area of
climate change. Providing an in-depth examination of institutional
fragmentation and regime interactions in global climate change
governance, this unique book links the literature on institutional
interactions and interplay management to the discussions on the
fragmentation of international law. It contains the first
comparison of different types of interactions and interaction
management in the issue area of climate change, and addresses the
important role of non-state actors. This volume will be of great
value to students and scholars of global governance and
international law.
An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global
environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement
necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental
outcomes. The rapid development of global environmental governance
has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to
address what has been called "a culture of unaccountability"
include greater transparency, public justification for governance
decisions, and the establishment of monitoring and enforcement
procedures. And yet, as this volume shows, these can lead to an
"accountability trap"-a focus on accountability measures rather
than improved environmental outcomes. Through analyses and case
studies, the contributors consider how accountability is being used
within global environmental governance and if the proliferation of
accountability tools enables governance to better address global
environmental deterioration. Examining public, private, voluntary,
and hybrid types of global environmental governance, the volume
shows that the different governance goals of the various actors
shape the accompanying accountability processes. These goals-from
serving constituents to reaping economic benefits-determine to whom
and for what the actors must account. After laying out a
theoretical framework for its analyses, the book addresses
governance in the key areas of climate change, biodiversity,
fisheries, and trade and global value chains. The contributors find
that normative biases shape accountability processes, and they
explore the potential of feedback mechanisms between institutions
and accountability rules for enabling better governance and better
environmental outcomes. Contributors Graeme Auld, Harro van Asselt,
Cristina Balboa, Lieke Brouwer, Lorraine Elliott, Lars H.
Gulbrandsen, Aarti Gupta, Teresa Kramarz, Susan Park, Philipp
Pattberg, William H. Schaedla, Hamish van der Ven, Oscar Widerberg
Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to
climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread
agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel
subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them,
and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue
to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring
the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing
together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case
studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform,
and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various
intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting
fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as
conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential
reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of
political science, international relations, law, public policy, and
environmental studies. This title is also available as Open Access.
Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and
more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the
international climate regime centred on the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be
emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more
dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom
famously described as 'polycentric'. This book brings together
contributions from some of the world's foremost experts to provide
the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to
explain and enhance societal attempts to govern climate change. It
is ideal for researchers in public policy, international relations,
environmental science, environmental management, politics, law and
public administration. It will also be useful on advanced courses
in climate policy and governance, and for practitioners seeking
incisive summaries of developments in particular sub-areas and
sectors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge
Core.
The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in
the international struggle to govern climate change. The
transformation that has occurred in its policies and institutions
has profoundly affected climate change politics at the
international level and within its 27 Member States. But how has
this been achieved when the EU comprises so many levels of
governance, when political leadership in Europe is so dispersed and
the policy choices are especially difficult? Drawing on a variety
of detailed case studies spanning the interlinked challenges of
mitigation and adaptation, this volume offers an unrivalled account
of how different actors wrestled with the complex governance
dilemmas associated with climate policy making. Opening up the EU's
inner workings to non-specialists, it provides a perspective on the
way that the EU governs, as well as exploring its ability to
maintain a leading position in international climate change
politics.
The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in
the international struggle to govern climate change. The
transformation that has occurred in its policies and institutions
has profoundly affected climate change politics at the
international level and within its 27 Member States. But how has
this been achieved when the EU comprises so many levels of
governance, when political leadership in Europe is so dispersed and
the policy choices are especially difficult? Drawing on a variety
of detailed case studies spanning the interlinked challenges of
mitigation and adaptation, this volume offers an unrivalled account
of how different actors wrestled with the complex governance
dilemmas associated with climate policy making. Opening up the EU's
inner workings to non-specialists, it provides a perspective on the
way that the EU governs, as well as exploring its ability to
maintain a leading position in international climate change
politics.
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