The snail’s pace of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has led to a sense of disenchantment among observers, especially following the disappointing 2009 Copenhagen climate conference. Hoffman argues, however, that this failure of “megamultilateralism” to produce fair and effective outcomes does not mean that one needs to give up hope. Instead, he shows that a multitude of “governance experiments” has emerged in recent years that, altogether, could ensure that climate action is undertaken even in the absence of significant multilateral progress.
Van Asselt finds the book to be a well-written, informative, and thought-provoking account of how these governance experiments emerged, how they interact with each other, and how effective they could potentially be, drawing on a database that covers 58 such experiments.
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