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Strategic Facilitation of the Climate Decision Making Process: Leadership and Coordination as Basis for Long-Term Cooperation

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The complexity of climate change determines not only the pool of possible outcomes, but also limits the number of ways in which outcomes can be achieved (see Chap. 5). The multiplicity of actors, issues, structures, processes and outcomes in the climate change context unleashes self-enforcing political dynamics that debar traditional means of decision-making. As Peter Haas (2008) observes, general models of global decision-making are not likely to work for climate change leading to rather disappointing diplomatic efforts so far. Conventional means of decision-making, such as through leadership and multilateral diplomacy, seems to need a general overhaul, and at worst should be replaced. As the failure to re-assess generically applied decision-making instruments may cause even further problems, new commitments and innovative means of cooperation should be found to push forward the negotiation process.

“Learning without thought is labor lost; though without learning is perilous” (Confucius)

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Hernández, A.M. (2014). Strategic Facilitation of the Climate Decision Making Process: Leadership and Coordination as Basis for Long-Term Cooperation. In: Strategic Facilitation of Complex Decision-Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06197-9_8

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