Changing Global Climate Governance: towards orchestration and hybridization of regimes?

Climate change is causing dangerous and widespread adverse impacts and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks.  In the future, such impacts and risks are predicted to increase with rise of temperature.  Since 2 decades, international society has strengthened its efforts to tackle climate change through international treaties, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.

The lecture will provide an overview of global climate governance and its historic developments.  The lecture will also explore the most recent phenomena in global governance, in which non state actors, especially companies and financial institutions, play a significant role in enhancing the effectiveness of climate actions through its norm making and implementation.