Marian Feist
Wolfgang ObergasselWhat’s the point of global #climate governance, with emissions still increasing despite 30 years of negotiations? We hope to provide a somewhat novel take with this new paper analysing the #GlobalStocktake with a #systemtransformation perspective https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422425000449#gs00002
Climate policy practice and scholarship for a long time pre-dominantly focused on the proximate cause of climate change, emissions, and saw climate policy as a collective action problem. Over the last decade an alternative view emerged that sees climate change as a system transformation problem.
A key insight from transitions literature is that transitions are multi-dimensional and contested as incumbent socio-technical regimes actively resist change in many dimensions. Policy strategies therefore need to both support low-emission solutions and actively destabilize high-emission systems
The paper furthermore draws on concepts of functions of international institutions and posits that these functions can be employed to foster transitions similarly to how different types of national policy instruments can be employed domestically. The functions can be used to impact various dimensions of socio-technical systems including material and immaterial factors as well as actor constellations.
The GST was seen by many as a key opportunity to accelerate low-emission transformations. The study finds that the GST did indeed succeed in strengthening international guidance and signal, i.e. broad norms. However, the GST largely failed to mobilise other governance functions and thereby also failed to address other dimensions of socio-technical systems
Mathieu@obergassel the problem is systemic. If you don't change the system, you can't solve the problem. It's simple. 1+1=2. Denial is deadly.