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26 May 2011
GG2020 fellows present vision for global climate governance at the London School of Economics
On 25 May 2011, the Global Governance 2020 working group on climate governance presented its recently released report during a Special Ralph Miliband Debate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The report is titled Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance. The group shared its findings and recommendations with a panel that included Anthony Giddens and Robert Falkner from the LSE. Moderating the panel was David Held from the LSE Global Governance Centre.
To listen to the event, please click here and scroll down to the listing Beyond a Global Deal? A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance.
Following the event, Andrew Purcell wrote an article about it for the website Climate Action, which works in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme.
The working group comprised eight young professionals from China, Germany and the United States who came together as part of the Global Governance 2020 (GG2020) fellowship program. In their report, produced over the course of 2010 and 2011, the authors lay out their vision and recommendations for the future of global climate governance. They propose a climate governance framework that utilizes bottom-up approaches to produce effective and workable solutions for climate protection in the absence of a global deal.
The GG2020 fellows recommend that:
- The United States and China actively support an entrepreneurial “bottom-up” approach that encourages emissions reductions by cities, regions, companies and organizations.
- The private sector and civil society focus on building cross-national partnerships to lead where governments cannot, adopting voluntary emissions-targets at the firm, sector and industry levels.
- The EU shape a “coalition of the ambitious” of countries committed to aggressive emissions reductions, while using both diplomatic and economic incentives to promote participation by other countries and non-state actors.
- The UNFCCC expand beyond its state-centric and consensus-based structure to one which explicitly encourages and actively supports a wider variety of approaches to climate governance.
The GG2020 program assembled 24 young leaders – eight each from the United States, China and Germany – to jointly develop a vision for the system of global governance in the year 2020 and beyond. The program focuses on the future of global governance in three key issue areas: climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and global economic governance.
The GG2020 program is jointly conducted by GPPi, the Hertie School of Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Brookings, Fudan University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The program is generously supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Transatlantic Program of the German Government (ERP Grant administered by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology).
Download the full GG2020 climate-change report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance.
For more information, please visit the GG2020 website or contact Joel Sandhu.