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Abstract
Climate change has been the ‘wicked problem’ the world has struggled to address so far. Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected the soft underbelly of global governance by redrawing boundaries and fissures in the existing system. The pandemic is possibly the single biggest event in the post-Second World War period or in the last seventy years to shape and affect human emotion, response and survival instincts. The world has seen catastrophic changes and huge loss of life. There are multiple parallels and differences between the two of the most significant challenges faced by the humanity. Even though climate scientists were harping on the catastrophic impact of climate change for the last four decades, at the broader human consciousness level, the severity of the problem has never sunk into the common psyche. Covid-19 is a vivid example as to how a pathogen-led pandemic can torment and pervade the all-powerful and the highest evolved species on the earth, that is, the mankind. In this backdrop, climate governance and an ideal-type governance typology is being looked at to provide some key insights and possible answers for the future. The concern has been looked through at two levels: personal at the behavioural level and collective at the global-scale levels. Future prescriptions rooted in the current realities have been explored to find a way out of the crisis and the key learning points from the pandemic to face the future with more confidence and certainty.
Highlights
Climate change has been the ‘wicked problem’ the world has struggled to address so far
The biggest parallel the Covid-19 has drawn with climate change is that ‘both are collective action problems, and both rely heavily on scientific knowledge and require individual actions that might not be clearly linked to a collective outcome and can suffer from policy and behavioural lethargy’ (Duvic-Paoli, 2020)
‘Climate change is, only one of many major contemporary cross-border issues, including financial crises, nuclear non-proliferation and global pandemics that seem resistant to political resolution’ (Held & Roger, 2018). This certainly has raised an existential question on the future of humanity and the possibilities of more frequent nature-led outbreaks in the days to come. This feeling of being miserable and helpless has led the world to look and ponder over this crisis (Covid-19), which is crippling human life at this time, and the other which is winking at the future
Summary
This feeling of being miserable and helpless has led the world to look and ponder over this crisis (Covid-19), which is crippling human life at this time, and the other which is winking at the future (climate change). The United Nations at the global level has played a key role in monitoring and devising responses to many pressing challenges including climate change and public health at large.
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