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06 April 2011
GG2020 fellows present vision for global climate governance at Hertie School
On 11 April 2011 at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, representatives of the GG2020 working group on climate governance presented their recently released report, Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach. The group shared their findings and recommendations with a panel of climate policy experts. Panelists included Jörg Haas, program director of climate diplomacy at the European Climate Foundation; Hermann Ott, spokesperson on climate policy at Bündnis 90/Die Grünen; and Karsten Sach, deputy director general for international cooperation at the German Federal Ministry of Environment. GG2020 fellows Thomas Hale, Tobias Leipprand and André Lieber presented the report.
Following a one-year scenario building process, the GG2020 working group authored a report in which they 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 group recommends 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,” comprising 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 that explicitly encourages and actively supports a wider variety of approaches to climate governance.
The GG2020 program brought together 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 focused on the future of global governance in three key issue areas: climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and global economic governance.
The GG2020 program was carried out by GPPi, the Hertie School of Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Brookings Institution, 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).
Read the GG2020 climate-change report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach.
For more on the GG2020 program, specifically the climate change working group, please visit the GG2020 website or contact Björn Conrad.