Published: 28 March 2013
Climate change is arguably the greatest governance challenge the world has ever faced. Addressing it requires a degree of urgency, trust, cooperation and solidarity that tests the limits of conventional mechanisms and institutions to manage public goods. It requires transformational shifts in our economies that may eventually dwarf the dramatic changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Climate change affects livelihoods and challenges lifestyles. It exerts immense pressure on the social and political fabric of communities around the world, against the backdrop of tremendous uncertainty about the precise scope and pace of the next steps that will be taken to remedy it, particularly at the global level.
