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This book chapter is from the book Research Handbook on Climate Governance which assesses the state and direction of climate governance at multilateral, EU, national and local levels.
The future of climate governance will be marked by the consequences of—and possible responses to—an increasing institutional fragmentation. Observers have pointed to the rapidly increasing number of climate change initiatives taking place outside of the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This chapter argues that the United Nations process can still hold a leading and coordinating position in this complex institutional environment. This implies rethinking the role of the UNFCCC in future climate governance: instead of following a traditionally high regulatory ambition and further overburdening negotiations and agencies, the climate regime has to strengthen its profile as a complexity ‘manager’ or ‘orchestrator’.
To develop this argument, the chapter first takes stock of the increasing fragmentation of global climate governance, before briefly looking at possible theory-driven explanations for this phenomenon. We then touch upon potential consequences of fragmentation to make the case for a management approach with the UN climate regime as an institutional orchestrator; we also briefly illustrate for one example, international technology initiatives, what such an orchestrating role of the UNFCCC could look like.
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Feature / SEI was invited to share research insights with the International Development Association and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Feature / SEI researcher Biljana Macura, who stepped into the role of EiC this year, discusses the focus and goals of the journal.
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