Global Climate Change
Abstract
Climate change is not a singular problem with a defined set of policy responses. On the contrary, there are multiple ways to conceive of what kind of problem climate change is and these varied understandings provide the contours for the politics and policy options available for governance responses. This chapter explores the baseline understanding of climate change from a climate science perspective before turning to an examination of the traditional multilateral and alternative transnational governance approaches. It concentrates on how different foundational understandings of the "problem" of climate change shape the global response. This edition first published 2013