Climate Governance Commission
The Climate Governance Commission aims to fill a crucial gap in confronting the global climate emergency by developing, proposing, and building partnerships that promote feasible, high impact global governance solutions for urgent and effective climate action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C or less.
Among other partners, the Commission is collaborating with the Exponential Roadmap Initiative which has identified 36 technologically viable and market-ready solutions that can be scaled to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 worldwide, and provide pathways to achieve the <1.5°C temperature rise limitation target.
The Commission aims to identify barriers and bottlenecks that prevent these existing solutions from being implemented at a pace and scale that mirrors the magnitude of the challenge. It then seeks to propose and promote implementable, high impact reforms or enhancements of global governance institutions and processes to assist in overcoming current obstacles and accelerating a just transition to a necessarily sustainable society.
Participants
Maja Groff
International lawyer based in The Hague, and Convener of the Climate Governance Commission. She is a co-winner of the New Shape Prize.
Linda Burenius
Head of Development, Global Challenges Foundation
Magnus Jiborn
Head of Research, Global Challenges Foundation
Johan Rockström
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, board member Global Challenges Foundation
Marcello Palazzi
Co-Founder of B-Corp Europe
Karin Bäckstrand
Professor in Environmental Social Science at Stockholm University, member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council, and the Institute for Future Studies
Richard Ponzio
Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program and Senior Fellow The Stimson Center
Sabina Dewan
President and Executive Director of the JustJobs Network
Itinterunga Rae Bainteiti
Kiribati Climate Action Network
Vladislav Kaim
Member of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Arunabha Ghosh
Founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water CEEW
Halldór Thorgeirsson
Chair, Iceland's Climate Council. Retired Senior Director at the UN Climate Change Secretariat
Wanjira Mathai
Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute
Nirere Sadrach
Founder of the End Plastic Pollution Movement
Adriana Abdenur
Executive Director, Plataforma CIPÓ of Brazil
Anders Wijkman
Chair, Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives & Co-president, Club of Rome, Sweden
Arthur Dahl
President of the International Environment Forum, a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of UNEP and co-winner of the New Shape Prize
Joachim Monkelbaan
An independent advisor on trade, sustainable development, and climate change. He is also a professor in sustainability governance at the International University in Geneva.
Augusto Lopez-Claros
Co-author of Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century and co-winner of the New Shape Prize