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Multi‐level Climate Governance: The global system and selected sub‐systems

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  • Ttowards interest-driven, opportunity-based and more voluntary actions by combining bottom-up with top-down elements (Falkner, 2016)

  • The work argues that global climate governance today aims essentially to activate the dynamic potential of each level of the global governance system, the level of world regions as well as the level of provinces and local communities

  • The systematic dimension of global climate governance is described in the introductory article ‘Multi-level climate governance as a global system’ by Martin Jänicke

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Introduction

Ttowards interest-driven, opportunity-based and more voluntary actions by combining bottom-up with top-down elements (Falkner, 2016). The EU may be regarded as the strongest regional sub-system of the global system, the BRICS countries of China and India play a comparable role, as countries both with a similar scope and with explicit multi-level climate policy activities. The author analyses the potential of the global climate governance system, which is characterized by a multiplicity of access points and incentives for innovation and interactive learning.

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