Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance

Radoslav S. Dimitrov
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Radoslav S. Dimitrov: Radoslav S. Dimitrov is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He participates in environmental conferences as government delegate, UN rapporteur for the Earth Negotiation Bulletin, and consultant to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. His research on global institutions, environmental regimes, the science-policy connection and norms in world politics is published in Science and International Environmental Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance (Rowman and Littlefield 2006), and articles in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Global Environmental Politics, and the Journal of Environment and Development.

Global Environmental Politics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 18-24

Abstract: This article clarifies the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference from the perspective of a government delegate. Access behind closed doors reveals the full extent of the damage. The failure at Copenhagen was worse than our worstcase scenario but should not obscure a bigger and brighter picture. Aggregate climate governance is in healthy condition that contrasts with the plight of multilateral climate governance. While the multilateral UN process is damaged, multilevel governance comprising regional, national and local climate policies worldwide is steadily gaining speed. The challenge to the academic community is to develop a composite measure of multilevel governance that captures aggregate public and nonstate policy initiatives at various levels. (c) 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2010
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