GGF 2020 Climate Change Working Group April 2011
A global agreement on binding emissions reductions is unlikely, but progress in fighting climate change can still be made through a patchwork of initiatives and commitments by forward-thinking countries, subnational governments, international organizations, businesses and civil society. That is the conclusion of the GGF 2020 climate change working group in their final report Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance.
The working group is composed of experts from China, Germany and the United States working on climate change in academic, industrial and governmental capacities. From January 2010 to 2011, the working group applied scenario planning methodology to envision different ways the world might approach the challenge of climate change in the next decade. Their final report outlines the three scenarios as well as policy recommendations that derive from them.
In their report, the GGF 2020 fellows recommend that: