Innovating Climate Governance

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

Intended for academics and practitioners involved in studying, developing and evaluating climate governance, this innovative volume analyses bottom-up climate change initiatives on the ground, investigating what happens once these climate experiments end, and explores how they can result in transformative ways of tackling climate change.After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments looks critically at climate governance experimentation, focusing on how experimental outcomes become embedded in practices, rules and norms. Policy which encourages local action on climate change, rather than global burden-sharing, suggests a radically different approach to tackling climate issues. This book reflects on what climate governance experiments achieve, as well as what happens after and beyond these experiments. A bottom-up, polycentric approach is analyzed, exploring the outcomes of climate experiments and how they can have broader, transformative effects in society. Contributions offer a wide range of approaches and cover more than fifty empirical cases internationally, making this an ideal resource for academics and practitioners involved in studying, developing and evaluating climate governance.