International Organizations in Global Climate Governance

Abstract

Climate change and the challenges it triggers are international in nature, which requires a coordinated international response to address these. International organizations (IOs) with mandates in varying policy areas, ranging from health to trade and security cooperation, are getting increasingly engaged in climate governance. The engagement of IOs in climate governance is particularly important as climate change integration in various issue areas has been shown to improve states’ adaptation and mitigation responses. This panel addresses the effects of IO’s climate governance and explains the differences in the extent to which IOs engage into climate governance across policy areas, geographic regions, and over time. Building on analysis of various IOs, the papers in the panel map and explain IOs engaged in climate governance, as well as address synergies and discrepancies between climate norms promoted by these IOs. In all, the panel contributes to the climate governance debate by illustrating the multitude of international actors engaged into climate change mitigation and adaptation, detecting and describing linkages between global climate norms promoted by the IOs, and explaining motivations of the IOs to engage into climate governance.

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Orchestration in Global Adaptation Governance: the case of Indigenous Peoples	View Paper Details
The Role of Ideas, Institutions, and Interests in Coherent Implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from 9 countries	View Paper Details
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Climate norms in the EU's neighbourhood	View Paper Details