Book Description

Stepping back from the pressures of the annual UNFCCC negotiation rhythm and developing a multi-annual perspective on climate governance would allow policy makers to build domestic support for climate policies, generate increased trust among political leaders and leverage the immense potential of ground-up initiatives for the creation of a much-needed global climate regime. [...] The main analytic discussion then encourages international policy makers to expand their gaze out from the engrossing year-to-year negotiation rhythm of the current UNFCCC COP process, and to take on a multi-annual perspective built around the following strategies: • Emphasizing the Opportunities of Climate Policy: A serious and sustained effort is needed to reframe key domestic climate discussion [...] ClimaTe poliCy and energy poliCy Framing the climate challenge as fundamentally an issue of energy policy could focus the discussion and design of climate policies on the valuable co-benefits of an energy transition. [...] The expertise and authority of national climate delegations also needs to be expanded in order to effectively manage the diversity of issues now interlaced with climate policy, and the expanded framings discussed above. [...] Most of the analysis in the run-up to Durban has focused on the fate of the Kyoto Protocol (Bodansky, 2011) and the implications of a potential (even likely) failure to agree on a second commitment period (Financial Times).