Other GG2020 reports
Beyond the Numbers - Strategies for Global Nuclear Governance
The GG2020 working group on nuclear governance recommends approaches to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that qualify success as more than simply the number of nuclear weapons or nuclear states.
Facing the Challenges - Three Scenarios for Global Economic Governance in 2020
The GG2020 working group on global economic governance discusses three scenarios that depict global economic interaction in the year 2020, providing decision makers with a platform for asking better questions.
Beyond a Global Deal
A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance
By Bruce Au, Björn Conrad, Liangchun Deng, Thomas Hale, Tobias Leipprand, André Lieber, Scott Moore, Jin Wang
January 2011
Download the full GG2020 climate-change report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance (32 pages).
Summary
A global agreement on binding emissions reductions is unlikely, but progress against climate change can still be made through a patchwork of initiatives and commitments by forward-thinking countries, subnational governments, international organizations, businesses and civil society. That is the conclusion of the GG2020 climate change working group in their final report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance (32 pages).
The GG2020 climate change working group comprised experts from China, Germany and the United States working on climate change in academic, industrial and governmental capacities. From January 2010 to 2011, the working group applied scenario planning methodology to envision different ways the world might approach the challenge of climate change in the next decade. Their final report outlines the three scenarios as well as policy recommendations that derive from them.
In their report, the GG2020 fellows recommend that:
- The United States and China actively support an entrepreneurial “bottom-up” approach that encourages emissions reductions by cities, regions, companies and organizations.
- The private sector and civil society focus on building cross-national partnerships to lead where governments cannot, adopting voluntary emissions-targets at the firm, sector and industry levels.
- The EU shape a “coalition of the ambitious” of countries committed to aggressive emissions reductions, while using both diplomatic and economic incentives to promote participation by other countries and non-state actors.
- The UNFCCC expand beyond its state-centric and consensus-based structure to one which explicitly encourages a wider variety of approaches to climate governance.
Download the full GG2020 climate-change report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance (32 pages).
Download the climate-report brief in German.
