Abstract The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for
all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have …

Highlights•Local governments are crucial actors in the multi-level climate governance
system.•A massive upscaling of local climate policies is key to achieving the 1.5 C …

In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

This article consists of a critical review of the conceptual scholarship on the governance of
climate finance and includes an overview of the institutional arrangements and governance …

This article provides a review of recent anthropological, archeological, geographical, and
sociological research on anthropogenic drivers of climate change, with a particular focus on …

Non-state and subnational climate actors have become central to global climate change
governance. Quantitatively assessing climate mitigation undertaken by these entities is …

Background A sustainable energy system based on renewables, energy-efficiency,
decentralisation of energy generation and synergies between different sectors requires new …

Non-state and sub-national actors (eg companies, civil society, cities and regions,
collectively referred to as 'NSAs') could bridge the ambition gap left by insufficiently …

This chapter focuses on accelerating mitigation and on shifting development pathways to
increased sustainability, based on literature particularly at national scale. While previous …

Networks of non-state actors and subnational governments have proliferated since the Paris
Agreement formally recognized their contributions to global climate change governance …