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• Title: Climate Governance Beyond the State.
• Author : Global Governance
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 254 KB

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When the new Bush administration, announced in March 2001 that the United States would abandon the 1997 Kyoto protocol, governments, media, and environmental organizations all launched major protests. The statement by John Prescott (UK deputy prime minister) that the Kyoto protocol is "the only game in town" was significant for these protests. (1) It is, however, only in a very limited sense that the Kyoto protocol, or the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, can be conceived of as the only game in town. In this article, we maintain that both the will and the capacity to govern the atmosphere is diffused among several "governors." Our understanding of climate governance is derived from more general approaches to global governance, leading us to suggest that global climate governance should refer to all purposeful mechanisms and measures aimed at steering social systems toward preventing, mitigating, or adapting to the risks posed by climate change. Proceeding from such a conception, global (climate) governance must not be performed by states only; it is also a matter for other authorities--for example, nongovernmental organizations and epistemic communities. In line with this reasoning, we argue that private authority is an important form of climate governance and that several of the climate-related measures taken by the insurance industry ought to be viewed as instances of global climate governance. Further, the emergence of the insurance industry in climate politics raises questions not just about the efficiency and equity of governance necessary for mitigating climate change, but also about the much less debated governance required for adapting to climate change.

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