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The Regime Complexes for Global Climate Governance

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  • Lihua Zhang

    (School of Public Administration, Jilin University, Changchun 130015, China)

  • Erhai Bai

    (School of Public Administration, Jilin University, Changchun 130015, China)

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Climate change is a major challenge for human society in the 21st century and an important issue in the context of sustainable development governance. As the density of institutions in global climate governance increases, so does the potential for overlap and interaction between the various elements of institutions. The current global climate governance issue is no longer solely a state-centric governance model but presents a complex manifestation of a complex of mechanisms. Taking a global climate governance perspective, this paper finds that the institutional complex of global climate governance is shaped by internal factors, such as self-attribution, rights, and interest linkages. External factors include the rapid development of globalization and the non-governmental state of the international community. The internal logic of the institutional complex is based on the institutional fragmentation of multiple interested parties involved in the governance process and the interaction patterns of internal actors. The institutional complex of global climate governance has the following implications for policy-making: the strength of the institutional complex refers to the framework of decision-making; the flexibility of the arguments provides stakeholders with demands related to their interests and inspires different countries to join in the governance of global climate change.

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  • Lihua Zhang & Erhai Bai, 2023. "The Regime Complexes for Global Climate Governance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-16, June.
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