Climate Change Governance

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Climate Change Governance

dc.contributor.author	Meadowcroft, James
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-26T15:37:20Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-26T15:37:20Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description.abstract	Climate change governance poses difficult challenges for contemporary political/administrative systems. These systems evolved to handle other sorts of problems and must now be adapted to handle emerging issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper examines long-term climate governance, particularly in relation to overcoming 'institutional inertia' that hampers the development of an effective and timely response. It argues that when the influence of groups that fear adverse consequences of mitigation policies is combined with scientific uncertainty, the complexity of reaching global agreements, and long time frames, the natural tendency is for governments to delay action, to seek to avoid antagonizing influential groups, and to adopt less ambitious climate programs. Conflicts of power and interest are inevitable in relation to climate change policy. To address climate change means altering the way things are being done today - especially in terms of production and consumption practices in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, and transportation. But some of the most powerful groups in society have done well from existing arrangements, and they are cautious about disturbing the status quo. Climate change governance requires governments to take an active role in bringing about shifts in interest perceptions so that stable societal majorities in favor of deploying an active mitigation and adaptation policy regime can be maintained. Measures to help effect such change include: building coalitions for change, buying off opponents, establishing new centers of economic power, creating new institutional actors, adjusting legal rights and responsibilities, and changing ideas and accepted norms and expectations.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/9063
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9063
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	World Development Report 2010
dc.title	Climate Change Governance	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T12:34:01.707443Z
okr.globalpractice	Transport and ICT
okr.globalpractice	Environment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpractice	Energy and Extractives
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.administrative	Europe and Central Asia
okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.administrative	Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4387
okr.topic	Conflict and Development
okr.topic	Energy
okr.topic	Environment
okr.topic	Transport