Transnational Climate Governance

Liliana B. Andonova, Michele M. Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley
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Liliana B. Andonova: Liliana B. Andonova is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She has held positions at Colby College and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, USA. Andonova is the author of Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policies in Central and Eastern Europe (2003). She has also published on topics such as trade and the environment, public-private partnerships, energy policy, and climate politics.
Michele M. Betsill: Michele M. Betsill is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on the governance of global environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change from the global to the local level. Recent books include Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (with Harriet Bulkeley, 2003); Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (co-edited with Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis, 2006); and NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations (co-edited with Elisabeth Corell, 2008). She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Harriet Bulkeley: Harriet Bulkeley is a Reader in Geography at Durham University. Her research interests centre on the concepts and practice of environmental governance, with a particular focus on cities, transnational networks and climate change. She is co-author (with Michele Betsill) of Cities and Climate Change (2003), and has published widely including articles in Political Geography, Environment and Planning A, International Studies Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics and Environmental Politics. She is an editor of Environment and Planning C and editor of 'Policy and Governance' for WIREs Climate Change. She currently holds an ESRC Climate Change Fellowship, co-ordinates the Leverhulme International Network Transnational Climate Change Governance, and in 2007 was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Global Environmental Politics, 2009, vol. 9, issue 2, 52-73

Abstract: In this article we examine the emergence and implications of transnational climate-change governance. We argue that although the study of transnational relations has recently been renewed alongside a burgeoning interest in issues of global governance, the nature of transnational governance has to date received less attention. We contend that transnational governance occurs when networks operating in the transnational political sphere authoritatively steer constituents toward public goals. In order to stimulate a more systematic study of the diversity and significance of this phenomenon, the article develops a typology based on the actors involved and their authority-public, private, or hybrid-and the primary governance functions performed in order to steer network constituents-information-sharing, capacity building and implementation, or rule-setting. A comparative discussion of transnational governance networks for climate change illustrates each category and the value of the typology in assessing the multiple mechanisms through which transnational governance occurs. In conclusion, we suggest that our typology provides a useful starting point for future research and reflect on the implications for the study of global affairs. (c) 2009 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2009
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