Explore how innovative governance strategies can combat global climate change and foster an inclusive green economy, addressing the complexities of resource management and societal adaptation.
Addressing ongoing global climate change impacts through inclusive economy-wide mitigation efforts and large-scale societal adaptation requires one-of-a kind approaches to governance.
Literature has attributed the inadequacies of governance to natural resource management including climate change to many factors like complexity and uncertainty, failures of neoliberal economic reforms, and institutional arrangements.
Climate governance is the aggregate estate of laws, policies, institutions, state and non-state actors that makes up the global, national, and local responses to climate change, led by government to prevent, mitigate, or adapt to climate risks while addressing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of climate change.
This phenomenon of statecraft further encompasses, subnational policies, corporate commitments, and civil society initiatives, across multiple levels -it has no single canonised authority, but a system of healthy conflict and confrontation, dialogue, and complementarity towards a common goal - addressing humanity’s existential threat.
