Ella Kokotsis Professor John J. Kirton Professor John J. Kirton
Climate change control has risen to the top of the international agenda. Failed efforts, centred in the United Nations, to allocate responsibility have resulted in a challenge now reaching crisis stage. John J. Kirton and Ella Kokotsis analyse the generation and effectiveness of four decades of intergovernmental regimes for controlling global climate change. Informed by international relations theories and critical of the prevailing UN approach, Kirton and Kokotsis trace the global governance of climate change from its 1970s origins to the present and demonstrate the effectiveness of the...
Climate change control has risen to the top of the international agenda. Failed efforts, centred in the United Nations, to allocate responsibility hav...
Marina Larionova Professor John J. Kirton Professor John J. Kirton
If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolving and optimal relationship between them. One answer arose from the G20's third summit, when it proclaimed the G20 would govern global finance and economics, while the old G8 would focus on development and security. Yet this rough division of labour did not address which issues lay within each category and how interconnections would be addressed to create comprehensive, coherent global governance for a complex world. This volume considers these...
If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolvin...
