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 …

This article takes stock of the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) through the prism of three recent shifts: the move away from …

Governing climate change polycentrically: setting the scene/Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema,
Jonas Schoenefeld, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster--International governance …

Partnership for Global Climate Action (GCA), an initiative launched on the second day of the
22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on …

Abstract The Paris Agreement constitutes a political success in climate negotiations and
traditional state diplomacy, and offers important implications for academic research. Based …

As international climate negotiations under the UNFCCC have adopted the goal to limit the
increase in global mean temperature to well below 2° C, a highly differentiated—but largely …

International institutions such as treaties and organizations shape, and are shaped by, the
large web-like architecture of global governance. Yet we know little about what this …

It is undeniable that our environment is constantly evolving and citizens are facing new
issues and challenges related to the environment around the world. Green governance is …

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

Action-oriented summits like the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit and 2019 UN Climate
Action Summit, have become a major feature of global climate governance. Their emphasis …