Thomas Hickmann

Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance

How transnational climate initiatives relate to the international climate regime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute to solving the problem of climate change, their development by different types of sub- and non-state actors does not imply a weakening of the intergovernmental level. On the contrary, many transnational climate initiatives use the international climate regime as a point of reference and have adopted various rules and procedures from international agreements.

Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance puts forward this argument and expands upon it, using case studies which suggest that the effective operation of transnational climate initiatives strongly relies on the existence of an international regulatory framework created by nation-states. Thus, this book emphasizes the centrality of the intergovernmental process clustered around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and underscores that multilateral treaty-making continues to be more important than many scholars and policy-makers suppose.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global environmental politics, climate change and sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9781138304161
• ISBN-10: 1138304166
• Artikelnr.: 57040531

Autorenporträt

Hickmann, Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Reconfiguration of Authority in World Politics 2. The Evolution of Global Climate Governance 3. Setting the Scene: Theoretical Background and Analytical Framework 4. Transnational City Networks: The ICLEI Network 5. Private Certification Schemes: The Gold Standard for Carbon Offsets 6. Business Self-Regulation: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol 7. Conclusions

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1. Introduction: The Reconfiguration of Authority in World Politics2. The
Evolution of Global Climate Governance3. Setting the Scene: Theoretical
Background and Analytical Framework4. Transnational City Networks: The
ICLEI Network5. Private Certification Schemes: The Gold Standard for Carbon
Offsets6. Business Self-Regulation: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol7.
Conclusions