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Strengthening the Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2013

Kenneth W. Abbott
Kenneth W. Abbott*
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona (US). Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

The inadequacies of the inter-state institutions and negotiating processes central to international climate policy create a pressing need for governance innovation. This article proposes one promising and feasible approach: strengthening the existing transnational regime complex for climate change. Leading organizations could strengthen the regime complex by forging stronger links among institutions, increasing coordination and collaboration, supporting weaker institutions and encouraging the entry of new ones where governance gaps exist. An enhanced regime complex would have a multilevel structure, enabling transnational institutions to bypass recalcitrant national governments by directly engaging sub-state and societal actors at multiple levels of authority and scale. It would also help to manage recalcitrant states by mobilizing advocacy, demonstration effects and other pressures on governments. Regime entrepreneurs, using the strategy of orchestration, could deploy a range of incentives and other tools of influence to enrol, support and steer transnational organizations.

Keywords

Climate ChangeTransnational GovernanceRegime ComplexPolycentric OrderMultilevel GovernanceOrchestration
Type
Symposium: Global Climate Governance Without The Us
Information
Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 2014 , pp. 57 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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Footnotes

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This contribution is part of a collection of articles from the conference ‘Global Climate Change without the United States: Thinking the Unthinkable’, held at Yale University Law School, New Haven, CT (United States (US)), 9–10 November 2012.

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144 Offsets covering 101 million CO2 equivalent tons were contracted in 2012, increasing 4% year-over-year; total market value declined by 11% to $523 million: Peters-Stanley & Yin, n. 136 above.

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156 Abbott & Snidal, n. 87 above.

157 Most of the transnational organizations identified in Bulkeley et al. (n. 54 above) and in Hoffman (n. 82 above) were created since 2001–02. Most voluntary carbon market organizations were established even more recently: Green, n. 92 above.

158 Hoffman, n. 82 above.

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164 Most private climate standards recognize or hew closely to public rules, to enhance legitimacy and minimize switching costs for adherents.

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171 http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org.

172 For example, the Gold Standard acquired the standards organization CarbonFix in 2012.

173 http://www.isealalliance.org.

174 A. Loconto & E. Fouilleux, ‘Politics of Private Regulation: ISEAL and the Shaping of Transnational Sustainability Governance’ (2013 forthcoming) Regulation & Governance.

175 Abbott & Snidal, n. 116 above.

176 Ibid.; Abbott, n. 21 above; Abbott & Snidal, n. 26 above; cf. Abbott, Genschel, Snidal & Zangl, n. 23 above.

177 Orchestration theory hypothesizes that successful orchestrators are ‘focal’, with an accepted leadership position in an issue area (Abbott, Genschel, Snidal & Zangl, n. 23 above) and strong connections with other institutions (Hale & Roger, n. 28 above).

178 In orchestration theory, orchestrators engage intermediaries to influence the behaviour of target actors: Abbott, Genschel, Snidal & Zangl, n. 23 above. Here I de-emphasize targets and focus on the role of orchestrators in supporting and coordinating other organizations, many of which will operate as intermediaries.

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187 GEO-5 for Business: Impacts of a Changing Environment on the Corporate Sector (UNEP, 2013), available at: http://www.unep.org/geo/geo5.asp.

188 http://www.climatewise.org.uk.

189 http://www.iigcc.org.

190 http://www.ceres.org/investor-network/incr.

191 http://www.unepfi.org/psi.

192 http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/corp_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/home.

193 http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/Topics_Ext_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_Site/IFC+Sustainability/Sustainability+Framework.

194 https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/home.

195 http://www.thegef.org/gef.

196 Advocates can create negative incentives through mechanisms such as consumer boycotts.

197 Mattli & Woods, n. 76 above, at pp. 35–6.

198 A few have become more active in this area. The UN Global Compact, which has long avoided any suggestion of ‘enforcement’, now publicly identifies firms that fail to submit timely communications and those expelled for failure to disclose. In addition, its ‘differentiation programme’ encourages NGOs to assess participants’ performance, so that it can single out superior performers: see: http://www.unglobalcompact.org/COP/differentiation_programme.html.