Abstract
Introducing a ‘complexity ethics’ frame would help society mitigate or adapt to climate warming within or exceeding the Paris Agreement 1.5 °C aim. A complexity ethics frame underlines existing facilitative multi-stakeholder methodologies used at subnational scales to build adaptive capacity and may be scaled-up in a transformed UNFCCC. Adopting such approaches at the international political level would permit non-state, non-Party stakeholders to more efficiently integrate their tremendous capacity for climate action into the global climate action process, leading to more substantial climate mitigation and adaptation for and over 1.5 °C warming. In turn, this would help satisfy critiques regarding the democratic legitimacy of polycentric moves to include non-state actors at this level, incorporate other global initiatives and problems like the SDGs and biodiversity loss, and meet high-level calls for more co-operative responses.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 48-55 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability |
Volume | 31 |
Early online date | 4 Jan 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- climate change
- adaptation
- governance
- adaptive governance