1st Edition

The Global Governance of Climate Change G7, G20, and UN Leadership

By John J. Kirton, Ella Kokotsis Copyright 2015
420 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

Climate change control has risen to the top of the international agenda. Failed efforts, centred in the United Nations, to allocate responsibility have resulted in a challenge now reaching crisis stage. John J. Kirton and Ella Kokotsis analyse the generation and effectiveness of four decades of intergovernmental regimes for controlling global climate change. Informed by international relations... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, About the Authors, Preface, Abbreviations and Acronyms, Part I. Introduction, 1. The Global Challenge of Climate Change, Part II. Creating the Exclusive G7 Regime, 2. Invention, 1979–1984, 3. Rediscovery, 1985–1986, 4. Revival, 1987–1988, Part III. Shaping the Divided UN Regime, 5. Reinvention, 1989–1992, 6. Reinforcement, 1993–1997, 7. Retreat, 1998–2004, Part IV.?Pioneering the Inclusive Global Regime, 8. Restoration, 2005–2007, 9. Reaching Out, 2008–2009, 10. Realization, 2010–2011, 11. Replacement, 2012–2014, Part V.?Conclusion, 12. Conclusion, Appendices, Bibliography, Index

Biography

John J. Kirton is a professor of political science and the director and founder of the G8 Research Group, co-director and founder of the G20 Research Group, as well as the co-director of the BRICS Research Group and the Global Health Development Program, at the Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He is author of G20 Governance for a Globalized World. Ella Kokotsis, PhD, is the Director of Accountability for the G8 and G20 Research Groups at the Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. Ella has contributed to many volumes in Ashgate's Global Finance series.

’In this meticulously researched volume, the authors document the cyclical history of minilateral efforts to govern global climate change by the G7/G8 and the G20.’ Peter M. Haas, UMASS Amherst, USA