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From the Blog
Stefan Renckens and Christian Elliott: Competition and Diversification in Institutional Proliferation: Measuring Fragmentation in Sustainable Finance Governance”:
Scholars of international relations have long studied the rapid proliferation of new institutions across areas of global governance, and whether institutional proliferation leads to fragmentation and the undermining of legacy state-led regimes. As a response, new concepts and frameworks have been introduced to better understand changing global governance arrangements including regime complexes, governance architecture, and […]
Laura Tozer: Rescaling Urban Zero Carbon Action for Systemic Transformation
How can civil society, businesses, and policy makers at all levels of government scale up climate solutions to transform our cities? Discussions on low carbon urban transitions are often focused on hierarchical ideas about scaling up in a linear manner and emphasize socio-technical innovation and market take-up in sustainability experiments. Looking beyond commercialization, this paper […]
Alexa Waud: Applying the “Politics of Decarbonization” framework to democratic interventions: Guiding impactful design and delivery
The European climate governance regime is notoriously technocratic. However, in the last few years growing pressure for climate action has crossed paths with the “deliberative wave,” participatory programmes, movement demands, and increasing recognition climate policies developed behind closed doors will not land amongst ordinary people. Now, European funders, governing bodies, and practitioners are searching for […]